Valerie Sperling

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1997; M.A., Georgetown University, 1991; B.A., Yale University, 1987
Assistant Professor of Government, Clark University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
508.793.7679
vsperling@clarku.edu

Research Interests
State-society relations; social movements; gender politics; patriotism; state-building in the post-Communist region.

Current Projects
"'The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel': Militarism, Patriotism, and the Russian National Idea" (an article about the Russian Committee of Soldiers' Mothers); a book project on globalization and liberal state-building.

Selected Publications
Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Editor, Building the Russian State: Institutional Crisis and the Quest for Democratic Governance (Westview Press, 2000).