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Eleanor Knott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics in 2016. Her primary research focuses on citizenship and identity in the post-Soviet space, with a particular interest in everyday nationalism and the practices surrounding citizenship on a grassroots level. In 2022, she published 'Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova' with McGill-Queen’s University Press, synthesizing ten years of qualitative fieldwork conducted in Crimea and Moldova from 2012 to 2013. She has published articles in various academic journals such as the International Studies Review and Qualitative Research. Her research investigates the meaning and practice of EU citizenship for EU27 citizens in light of Brexit and explores themes of democratization and democratic backsliding. Eleanor's methodological interests include qualitative research ethics and the integration of bottom-up methods like ethnography and interviews into comparative multi-sited research designs.
Department of Economics