Anastasiia Vlasenko

Anastasiia Vlasenko is the Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Ukrainian Studies and Lecturer in Political Science at Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida State University (2022). Her research focuses on legislative politics, democratization, and corruption dynamics in Ukraine, with a monograph project analyzing legislative networks' impact on rent-seeking behavior in the Ukrainian parliament.

• Current Affiliations:
• Columbia University (Political Science Department)
• Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Previous Roles:

• HURI Research Fellow at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute
• Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia
• Visiting Researcher at Berlin’s Hertie School (2020–2021)

Teaching Experience:

• Florida State University
• New York University
• Kyiv School of Economics

Research Interests:

Her work bridges legislative behavior, transitional governance, and authoritarianism. Key themes include corruption networks, electoral dynamics, and propaganda in post-Soviet contexts. She employs quantitative methods to analyze policy-making processes in Ukraine and Russia.

Publications:

Her research has appeared in the Journal of Politics. Ongoing projects address clientelism in legislative systems and forecasting political instability in hybrid regimes.

Contact:

International Affairs Building, Columbia University | av3228@columbia.edu | anastasiiavlasenko.com