ABOUT ME

Ararat L. Osipian is a Founding Fellow of the New University in Exile Consortium at the New School University, New York, and a Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship (SUS-VUIAS) Fellow at New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest. He previously served as Fellow of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, Washington, DC, The Alexander Mirtchev visiting professor and scholar, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TRACCC), Schar School of Policy and Government at the George Mason University, Washington, DC, associate researcher, Department of Political Science and the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and fellow of the Institute of International Education (IIE), United Nations Plaza, New York. Dr. Osipian holds a PhD in Economics of Education and Human Development from Peabody College of Education at Vanderbilt and an MA in Economics from Vanderbilt University, where he came as a fellow of the US Department of State. Dr. Osipian is the author of Sustainable Economic Growth in Russia: A Structuralist Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), The Economics of Growth in Russia: Overcoming the Poverty Trap (Routledge, 2023), Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms and Property Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), The Political Economy of Corporate Raiding in Russia (Routledge, 2018), and The Impact of Human Capital on Economic Growth: A Case Study in Post-Soviet Ukraine, 1989-2009 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). His articles and reviews appear in Asian Politics & Policy, Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, Canadian and International Education Journal, Capital & Class, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Comparative Sociology, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory, Contemporary Politics, Critical Policy Studies, Democratization, Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, East European Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Economics of Education Review, Europe-Asia Studies, European Education: Issues and Studies, European Journal of Sociology, Global Crime, Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, International Journal of Educational Development, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Political Studies Review, Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, Research in Comparative and International Education, Slavic Review, Social Anthropology, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Transition Studies Review, FedUni Journal of Higher Education, and Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research, and Global Corruption Report: Education by Transparency International.  His op-eds appear in The National Interest, Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Education: The World View, University World News, International Higher Education, New Eastern Europe, Rights Views Columbia University, The Conversation, The Associated Press, Channel News Asia, International Policy Digest, Alter Net, Scroll.in, Salon, Public Radio International, CIES Perspectives, and 21st Century Scholar. He is also a winner of several awards, including grants from Edmund Muskie/FSA, Institute of International Education, Soros Foundation, Open Society Institute, Yale, Vanderbilt, University of Wisconsin-Madison, George Washington University, Volkswagen Stiftung New Europe College-Institute for Advanced Study, and Central European University. His research interests include corruption in higher education and inequalities in access to higher education in international perspective, corporate, property and land raiding, nexus of education and economic growth, modern welfare states and political economy of transition.

Countries of Experience: USA, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine