CV

Academic Appointments

Millikin University

Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science, August 2020-present
Director, Human Trafficking Research Lab, January 2018-present
Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, August 2016-July 2020
Williams Professor in Global Studies, 2017-2019

Clayton State University 

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, August 2014-July 2016

Education

University of Kansas ​

Ph.D. Political Science, 2014
Major Fields: Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Minor Field: Gender and Politics
​Dissertation “Beyond the Natasha Effect: Determinants of Human Trafficking Policy Variation in the Post-Soviet Region”
Dissertation Advisers: Dr. Erik Herron and Dr. Alesha Doan ​

Graduate Certificate, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2012
​Master of Arts, Political Science, 2011
Master’s Thesis “Advocacy Coalitions in East European Sex Tourism: The Case of Latvia”
Advised by Dr. Erik Herron

University of Washington

Master of Arts, Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, 2006 Master’s Thesis “Civil Society in Latvia: A Comparative Analysis of the First Republic and the Second Republic”
Advised by Dr. Guntis Smidchens 

​University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 

​Bachelor of Arts, Political Science, 2003

Supplemental Education 

Methods Training
​Social Science Research Council Eurasia Program Summer Workshops in Quantitative Methods, 2012
Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Syracuse University 2011
​Language Training
​Харківський національний університет імені В.Н. Каразіна (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) Visiting Student, 2012-2013
​Институт социальных гуманитарных знаний (Kazan Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities), Critical Language Program, 2012 ​
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет (Saint Petersburg State University) Study Abroad Program, 2010 ​
Latvijas Universitāte (University of Latvia) Study Abroad Program, 1999 and Visiting Student, 2007-2008

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I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab at Millikin University. I am the author of Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia published by Policy Press at the University of Bristol in 2020. I am also a Regional Faculty Associate at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I was previously an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at Clayton State University, a University System of Georgia institution from 2014-2016. I graduated from the University of Kansas (KU) in 2014 with a Ph.D. in Political Science. I also have a Graduate Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2013) and a Master of Arts in Political Science (2011) from the University of Kansas, a Master of Arts in International Studies focusing on Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (2006) from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of...
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