Dmitrii Kofanov
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Dmitrii Kofanov is an incoming Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Governance and Markets. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPERG) at the University of Barcelona and holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
His research interests lie in the sphere of comparative politics and historical political economy with a focus on Russia and Eastern European countries. In particular, he studies conflict, ethnoreligious diversity, self-governance, and political and economic development in late Imperial Russia.
His dissertation on industrialization and peasant unrest in the Russian Empire won the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in institutional and organizational economics and the UW–Madison Political Science Department's award for the best dissertation in Comparative Politics. His work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, European Review of Economic History, Slavic Review, and other journals.