Eleanor Knott

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PhD Candidate in Government

Email: e.k.knott@lse.ac.uk / ekknott@gmail.com
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/knotte
Blog: eleanorknott.wordpress.com
Twitter: @ellie_knott

Curriculum vitae: Download CV

 

Research Interests

  • Politics of ethnicity and nationalism
  • Citizenship
  • Democratization
  • Post-Soviet politics (Crimea, Ukraine, Russia, Romania & Moldova)
  • Secession and conflict
  • Comparative political ethnography/interpretivism

Job Market Paper

Extra-Territorial Citizens and Voters: Moldovan Voters in Romanian Elections

Publications

Peer reviewed journal articles:

Knott, Eleanor (2015) Generating data: studying identity politics from a bottom-up perspective in Crimea and Moldova, East European Politics and Societies, 29: 467-486, doi:10.1177/0888325415584047) (ungated pdf)

Knott, Eleanor (Forthcoming in September 2015) “What does it mean to be a kin majority? Analyzing Romanian identity in Moldova and Russian identity in Crimea from below”, Social Science Quarterly, 96(3): 830–859. doi:10.1111/ssqu.12193 (accessible pdf)

Other journal articles:

Brett, Daniel and Eleanor Knott (2015) Moldova's parliamentary elections of November 2014, Electoral Studies, doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2015.09.002 (accessible pdf)

Policy papers:

Fix, Liana & Eleanor Knott, “In Crimea, time for pressure, not acceptance: why we cannot lose sight of the Crimean Tatars” German Council of Foreign Relations, DGAPkompakt 16: 1-6.

Book Reviews:

2014 Narvselius, Eleonora, Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet LʹViv: Narratives, Identity, and Power. Nations and Nationalism 20:4 2014

Kubik, Jan & Amy Linch (eds), Post Communism from Within. Social Justice Mobilization and Hegemony. Europe Asia Studies 66:10.

I also have three working papers (on Crimean annexation, Romanian voting practices in Moldova, and a bottom-up comparison of citizenship practices in Crimea and Moldova), and am working on a Special Issue Proposal: ”Nationalism and Belonging” for Nations and Nationalism (with William Callahan, Montserrat Guibernau Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Alain Dieckhoff and Bo Strath).

Teaching Record

Teaching Fellow in Qualitative Methods, School of Public Policy, University College London (December 2014-present)

  • Introduction to qualitative methods in Political Science (graduate/MSc)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Government, London School of Economics (September 2012-present)

  • Comparative Politics (undergraduate/BA)
  • Theories and Problems of Nationalism (undergraduate/BA)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London (September 2013-December 2014)

  • Communism, Politics & Society in Central Eastern Europe (undergraduate/BA)

Qualifications:

  • Full & Associate level Postgraduate certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE), Teaching and Learning Centre, London School of Economics

Supervisors

Dr Denisa Kostovicova (supervisor)
Associate Professor in Global Politics
Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor John Breuilly (advisor)
Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity
Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science

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