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Volha Charnysh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the role of identity in state-building, economic development, and the long-term effects of violence, with a regional emphasis on Europe and Eurasia. Volha's upcoming book, 'Uprooted: Post-WWII Population Transfers That Remade Europe,' published by Cambridge University Press in 2024, examines the enduring consequences of mass displacement, emphasizing cultural heterogeneity, social cohesion, and state-building in Poland and West Germany. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in prestigious journals including the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, and the European Journal of International Relations. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Historical Political Economy and has contributed to Broadstreet Blog. Volha received her PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2017 and has held fellowships at the Princeton Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, and Stanford University's Hoover Institution.