I read for a BA at the University of Cyprus and hold an MPhil and DPhil from the University of Oxford. Before returning to Oxford in September 2023, I was an Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University College London.

I offer the following modules: Introduction to the Practice of Politics; Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

I provide tutorial teaching for Introduction to the Practice of Politics for all first-year students reading for degrees in History and Politics, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics. I also teach core papers in Comparative Politics and Political Sociology, and the optional paper Politics in Russia and the Former Soviet Union.

My research interests include authoritarian politics, public opinion, political behavior, protest and post-communist politics. My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and the Journal of Politics, among others. I am currently the Principle Investigator of the project “Nonviolent Repression in Electoral Autocracies” which is funded by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council.

https://katerinatertytchnaya.com

Guest Speaker. ‘Election Special 2: Elections without Democracy.’ The Briefing Room, BBC Sounds, 13 March 2024. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x4tr

‘Behind Putin’s Potemkin Vote, Real Support. But No Other Choices.’ The New York Times, 18 March 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/world/europe/putin-russia-election.html