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I am a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating in 2015 I taught American Politics at Wake Forest University and International Relations at Elon University. I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and at the University of Denver teaching classes on European and Comparative Politics, Corruption, and Comparative Political Economy. My research interests lay in the fields of international organizations (IOs), corruption, democratization, Europeanization, political economy, and post-communist studies. My dissertation focuses on the interplay between supranational and international pressures on nations to curb corruption, civil society empowerment and NGOs' role in anti-corruption politics, and whether and when corruption matters for FDI. I also study IOs and my research tries to explain the amount of authority states have ceded to IOs in the post-World War II period and why.

I have enjoyed teaching classes on American Politics, International Relations, Comparative Politics, European Politics, Democratization, Corruption, Civil Society, and State-building.

I received my BA from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY double-majoring in Economics and International Relations.

Svet Derderyan, Ph. D.

Department of Political Science

University of Colorado Boulder

Ketchum 232

Boulder, CO

sderderyan@gmail.com