Daniel Schulte

Dr. Daniel Schulte is an Associate Lecturer in Qualitative Methods at the Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL), and serves as Deputy Director of Research (Ethics). He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics and International Relations from Brown University (2023), an MA in Political Science (Brown), a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and an A.B. in Russian History and Literature from Harvard College. His research focuses on morality policy, human rights, authoritarianism, and nationalism, with a regional emphasis on Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

His book project examines morality politics and electoral authoritarianism in Turkey, Russia, and Poland, employing mixed methods including elite interviews, media analysis, and historical process tracing. He has taught postgraduate modules on qualitative methods at UCL and previously designed courses at Brown University. He received the P. Terrence Hopmann Award for Excellence in Teaching (2021) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.