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MARK R. BEISSINGER HENRY W. PUTNAM PROFESSOR OF POLITICS

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Mark R. Beissinger
Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics

411 Robertson Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544


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MARK R. BEISSINGER


 

MARK BEISSINGER IS THE HENRY W. PUTNAM PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS
AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.  HE PREVIOUSLY SERVED ON THE FACULTIES OF UNIVERSITY OF
WISCONSIN-MADISON AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY.  HIS AREAS OF INTEREST ARE SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS, REVOLUTIONS, NATIONALISM, STATE-BUILDING, AND IMPERIALISM, WITH
PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ITS SUCCESSOR STATES. 

 

BEISSINGER IS AUTHOR OR EDITOR OF SIX BOOKS: THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY: 
URBANIZATION AND THE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION OF REBELLION (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
PRESS, 2022); HISTORICAL LEGACIES OF COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE
(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014 [JOINTLY EDITED WITH STEPHEN KOTKIN]);
NATIONALIST MOBILIZATION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET STATE (CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002); BEYOND STATE CRISIS? POST-COLONIAL AFRICA AND
POST-SOVIET EURASIA COMPARED (JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2002 [JOINTLY
EDITED WITH CRAWFORD YOUNG]); THE NATIONALITIES FACTOR IN SOVIET POLITICS AND
SOCIETY (WESTVIEW, 1990 [JOINTLY EDITED WITH LUBOMYR HAJDA]); AND SCIENTIFIC
MANAGEMENT, SOCIALIST DISCIPLINE, AND SOVIET POWER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS,
1988).  HIS ARTICLES HAVE APPEARED IN THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW,
PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICS, WORLD POLITICS, COMPARATIVE POLITICS, SOCIAL RESEARCH,
THE JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY, ETHNOPOLITICS, MOBILIZATION, POST-SOVIET AFFAIRS,
SLAVIC REVIEW, KRITIKA, AB IMPERIO, AND OTHER JOURNALS.

 

BEISSINGER'S 2002 BOOK NATIONALIST MOBILIZATION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET
STATE WON MULTIPLE AWARDS: THE WOODROW WILSON FOUNDATION AWARD (NOW KNOWN AS THE
MERZE TATE–ELINOR OSTROM OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD) PRESENTED BY THE AMERICAN
POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BEST BOOK PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES
IN THE FIELDS OF GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, OR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS; THE MATTEI
DOGAN AWARD PRESENTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE RESEARCH FOR THE BEST BOOK
PUBLISHED IN THE FIELD OF COMPARATIVE RESEARCH; AND THE BEST BOOK AWARD OF THE
EUROPEAN POLITICS SECTION OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION.  HIS
2022 BOOK THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY RECEIVED THE GREGORY LUEBBERT AWARD PRESENTED
BY THE COMPARATIVE POLITICS SECTION OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE
ASSOCIATION FOR THE BEST BOOK IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS PUBLISHED OVER THE
PREVIOUS TWO YEARS.  BEISSINGER WAS SELECTED AS A GUGGENHEIM FELLOW IN 2017, AND
IN 2024 HE WAS RECOGNIZED BY PRINCETON'S DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS WITH A STANLEY
KELLEY JR. AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING.

 

BEISSINGER HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AT THE INSTITUTE
FOR ADVANCED STUDY AT PRINCETON AND A FELLOW AT THE WISSENSHAFTSKOLLEG ZU
BERLIN, THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS, AND THE DAVIS
CENTER FOR RUSSIAN STUDIES AT HARVARD, AS WELL AS A VISITING FELLOW AT NUFFIELD
COLLEGE AT OXFORD AND A CIAMPI VISITING SCHOLAR AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED
STUDIES OF THE SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE IN FLORENCE.  HIS RESEARCH HAS ALSO BEEN
SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, THE UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR
PEACE, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH, THE AMERICAN
COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGES BOARD
(IREX), FULBRIGHT-HAYS, AND THE FORD, ROCKEFELLER, AND OLIN FOUNDATIONS. 

 

FROM 2009-2016 BEISSINGER SERVED AS DIRECTOR OF THE PRINCETON INSTITUTE FOR
INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES (PIIRS).  AT WISCONSIN, HE WAS CHAIR OF THE
POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT FROM 2001-2004 AND WAS THE FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF
WISCONSIN'S CENTER FOR RUSSIA, EAST EUROPE, AND CENTRAL ASIA FROM 1992 TO 1998. 
BEISSINGER ALSO SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES (NOW THE ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVIC, EAST EUROPEAN,
AND EURASIAN STUDIES)--THE MAIN AREA STUDIES ASSOCIATION FOR THE RUSSIAN, EAST
EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN REGIONS.  

 

 


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