Eleanor Knott is a Fellow in Qualitative Methods in the Department of Methodology. She received her PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 2016.                       

Research Interests

Eleanor's research focuses broadly on ethnic politics, citizenship and kin-state relations in post-Soviet space from the bottom-up. Her dissertation examined the politics of co-ethnicity and citizenship from the bottom-up, in the cases of Moldova and Crimea, by analyzing the meanings of kin-state identification and engagement with kin-state practices (citizenship and quasi-citizenship).

Methodologically, she is interested in combining interpretive and comparative approaches to research. Her research uses interviews and participant observation, and she is currently undertaking a survey project on EU migrants’ experiences of the UK-EU referendum.

For more information, visit personal.lse.ac.uk/knotte

Recent Publications

• The Extra-Territorial Paradox of Voting: The Duty to Vote in Extra-Territorial Elections  (2016,  Democratization)  [pdf]
• Generating data: studying identity politics from a bottom-up perspective in Crimea and Moldova  (2015, East European Politics and Societies) [pdf]
• What does it mean to be a kin majority? Analyzing Romanian identity in Moldova and Russian identity in Crimea from below  (2015, Social Science Quarterly) [pdf]