I completed an MRes in Political Science in the Department of Government at LSE before beginning a PhD in Political Science (2011). I have a BA in Geography from Jesus College, Cambridge and an MA from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies at UCL.
While at LSE, I have co-chaired the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and co-chaired ASEN's 2014 conference entitled "Nationalism and Belonging". In 2014-2015, I will chair ASEN’s seminar series which will explore everyday and bottom-up approaches to ethnicity and nationalism.
Teaching:
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GTA for Theories and Problems of Nationalism in the Department of Government
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GTA for Politics and Society in Central and Eastern Europe in the School of Slavonic and Easter European Studies at UCL
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I am working towards the full Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (FHEA status)
Languages: English (native), French, German, Russian, Romanian
Thesis
Citizens and Compatriots: comparing Russia’s relationship with Crimea and Romania’s relationship with Moldova from below
My research looks at kin-state relations between Crimea and Russia, and Moldova and Romania from a bottom-up perspective. To do this, I analyse the meanings of kin identification and the practices of kin-state policies, in a cross-case comparison of Crimea and Moldova. In Crimea, I look at what it means to be Russian and practices of Russia's Compatriot Policy. In Moldova I look at what it means to be Romanian and the practice of Romania’s kin-state policies, in particular the reacquisition (redobandire) of Romanian citizenship. My research is based on fieldwork interviews with everyday actors and ethnographic observations conducted in Crimea and Moldova between 2012 and 2013.
Supervisor: Dr Denisa Kostovicova|
Research interests
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Eastern European and post-Soviet politics
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Nationalism and ethnic politics, in particular in post-Soviet and eastern European states
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Kin-state relations
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Citizenship policy and dual citizenship acquisition
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Interpretive methodology and political ethnography
Publications
What does it mean to be a kin majority? Analysing Romanian identity in Moldova and Russian identity in Crimea from below (Working Paper)
Generating data: studying identity politics from a bottom-up approach in Ukraine and Moldova (Working Paper to be submitted to Eastern European Politics and Societies)
Revisiting Crimean secession in 2014: conceptualising an emerging frozen conflict (to be submitted to Südosteuropa)
Book review: Narvselius, Eleonora. 2012. Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet LʹViv: Narratives, Identity, and Power. Nations and Nationalism 20:4 (forthcoming)
Contact
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/knotte|
Twitter: @ellie_knott|
Email: e.k.knott@lse.ac.uk|