About
About
Natalia Vasilenok is a postdoctoral research officer at the BORDERS project led by Carl Müller-Crepon. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science and M.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 2026. Natalia Vasilenok’s research examines how ideas, knowledge, and institutions emerge, evolve, and spread across historical and contemporary contexts. Methodologically, her work emphasizes the use of previously unexplored data sources, such as archival collections and texts.
Research
- Political economy of ideas
- Authoritarian politics
- State-building and economic development
- Historical political economy
- Text as data