Valeria Umanets is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, as well as a Research Affiliate in Political Science and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include women and politics, non-democratic political institutions, historical political economy, and post-Communist states. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and her MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. Her research involves archival data, econometric models, elite interviews, and survey experiments. Her work has been published in Democratization and by Routledge. Her pronouns are she/her/hers.

Courses Taught 

University of Pittsburgh

• PS 1300. Capstone in Russian and East European Studies: Gender and Politics in Russia

University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Instructor of Record
  • Political Science 120. Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Pre-College Summer Program. Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence
• Undergraduate Research Mentor 
• Teaching Assistant
  • Political Science 344. Causes and Consequences 
  • Political Science 231. Politics in Multi-Cultural Societies
  • Political Science 120. Introduction to Comparative Politics
  • Political Science 170. Research Methods in Political Science