About
Kathy Rousselet is a Research Director at Sciences Po, specializing in the intersection of religion, politics, and society in the Russian Empire, USSR, and Post-Soviet World. She is an associate researcher at the Center for Studies of the Russian, Caucasian and Central European Worlds (EHESS) and holds affiliations with editorial and scientific councils of institutions like the International Observatory of Religion and the GDRus.
Her research focuses on:
- Religious dissent during the Soviet period
- Post-Soviet religious transformations
- Russian Orthodoxy's political discourses
- Memorialization of the Great Terror
- Informal relations in Russian society
Her publications analyze themes of geopolitics, state-church relations, and religious nationalism. Rousselet supervises doctoral students on topics such as:
- Collective action in youth movements (Russia/Belarus)
- International norms in Ukrainian asylum policies
- Environmental policies in Russian Orthodoxy
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