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Edward Schatz is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He specializes in identity politics, social transformations, social movements, anti-Americanism, and authoritarianism, particularly focusing on the ex-USSR and Central Asia. He employs qualitative ethnographic methods in his political studies. His noteworthy publications include 'Seeing China's Belt Road' (co-edited with Rachel Silvey, Oxford University Press, 2024), 'Slow Anti-Americanism' (Stanford University Press, 2021), 'Paradox of Power' (co-edited with John Heathershaw, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), and 'Political Ethnography' (edited, University of Chicago Press, 2009). In addition to these, he has written 'Modern Clan Politics' (University of Washington Press, 2004), and has contributed to respected journals such as Comparative Politics, Slavic Review, International Political Science Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Currently, he is engaged in projects examining volunteerism and disaster relief in the context of Central Asia's authoritarian governance.
Department of Sociology