Dr. Samuel Greene

Biography

Sam Greene is a professor of Russian politics at King's College London. Before moving to London in 2012 to join King’s, he lived and worked in Moscow for 13 years, where he was the director of the Centre for the Study of New Media & Society at the New Economic School and deputy director at the Carnegie Moscow Center. He holds a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. His recent book, co-authored with Graeme Robertson, titled 'Putin v People: Perilous Politics in Divided Russia', was published in 2019 by Yale University Press. Greene's research focuses on the dynamics of power in Russia, authoritarianism, and the social, economic, and political transformations that countries undergo. He employs various qualitative methods in political science and political sociology to highlight citizens’ evolving perceptions of the state and their conceptions of political identity. Additionally, he is particularly interested in how online factors affect social mobilization and political mobilization, and he supervises PhD projects centered on themes related to Russia and the post-Soviet region.

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