Anton Shirikov is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Kansas and a research affiliate at New York University's Center for Social Media and Politics. He studies authoritarian propaganda and disinformation as well as the legacies of communism in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Dmitrii Kofanov is a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in historical political economy and studies conflict, diversity, and political and economic development in late Imperial Russia.
Yoshiko M. Herrera is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published extensively on Russian politics; nationalism, identity, and ethnic politics; political economy and state statistics (national accounts); and international norms.
