Dmitrii Kofanov

Welcome! 

I am a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Center for Governance and Markets (CGM) at the University of Pittsburgh. 

My research interests lie in the sphere of comparative politics and historical political economy with a focus on Russia and Eastern European countries. In particular, I study conflict, diversity, and political and economic development in late Imperial Russia. 

Together with Tine Paulsen and Jan Vogler, I am a co-convenor of the Virtual Workshop in Historical Political Economy (VWHPE). The aim of the workshop is to provide an open forum for participants to discuss state-of-the-art research in historical political economy. For more information, see the VWHPE website. 

I hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and previously was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group (IPErG) at the University of Barcelona.

My dissertation won the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation in institutional and organizational economics and the UW–Madison Political Science Department's award for the best dissertation in Comparative Politics. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Comparative Politics, European Review of Economic History, Slavic Review, and other journals.