About
"My favourite piece of research is my book Kin Majorities (McGill University Press). Published in 2022, it's a culmination of over 10 years of work - from qualitative fieldwork in Crimea and Moldova in 2012 and 2013 to final publication"
- Dr Ellie Knott discusses her favourite piece of research as part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations. Read the full close-up with Methodology faculty.
Eleanor Knott is an Associate Professor 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 current substantive research focuses on the politics of citizenship and democracy in the Former Soviet Union. She has a particular interest in democratisation and backsliding in Moldova, as well as how Moldova is understood politically and geopolitically in the shadow of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her methodological research explores research ethics, intuitive approaches, and qualitative research more generally.
Her prior research compared the politics of identity and citizenship in Moldova and Crimea from the bottom-up, published in 2022 in her first monograph, Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova with McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Her articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Politics, Global Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Qualitative Research, Nature Reviews Methods Primers, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Citizenship Studies, and Democratization, among others.
For more information, visit eleanorknott.com
Expertise
Comparative politics; citizenship; democratisation; Former Soviet Union; Moldova; Crimea; research ethics; qualitative methods; nationalism and ethnicity.
Research
- Russia’s hybrid warfare poses an existential threat to Moldovan democracy, LSE European Politics Blog, 2024.
- In political science research ethics is women’s work, LSE Impact Blog, 2024.
- How citizenship fosters privilege and inequality, LSE European Politics, 2023.
- Were Crimeans really pro-Russian before annexation, Research for the World. 2022.
- Q and A with Dr Eleanor Knott on Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova, LSE Review of Books, 2022.