Mark R. Beissinger

Mark R. Beissinger (born November 28, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American political scientist [1] and the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University. He is author of the book Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State (2002),[2] which won the 2003 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs as awarded by the American Political Science Association, the 2003 Mattei Dogan Award presented by the Society for Comparative Research for the best book published in the field of comparative research, and the Award for Best Book on European Politics presented by the Organized Section on European Politics and Society of the American Political Science Association. He is also author of the book The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion (2022)[3] and Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power[4] (1988), and co-edited the books The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (1990, with Lubomyr Hajda),[5] Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia Compared (2002, with M. Crawford Young),[6] and Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (2014, with Stephen Kotkin).[7]

Beissinger received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Duke University in 1976 and his doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1982. He taught at Harvard from 1982 until 1987, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[1] from 1988 until 2006 and was chair of their Political Science Department from 2001 to 2004. He was also the founding director of Wisconsin's Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. Since 2006 he has taught at Princeton University as a full professor.[8] He subsequently became director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.[9] In 2007 he was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (AAASS).[10] His work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation.

References
  1. Staff (March 1997) "People in Political Science" PS: Political Science and Politics 30(1): pp. 81-95, page 81
  2. Beissinger, Mark R. (2002). Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511613593. ISBN 978-0-521-80670-1.
  3. The Revolutionary City. April 12, 2022. ISBN 978-0-691-22474-9.
  4. Beissinger, Mark R. (1988). Scientific management, socialist discipline, and Soviet power. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-79490-7. OCLC 17258906.
  5. HAJDA, LUBOMYR. BEISSINGER, MARK (2019). NATIONALITIES FACTOR IN SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY. [S.l.]: ROUTLEDGE. ISBN 0-367-29425-7. OCLC 1122160132.
  6. Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective. Mark R. Beissinger, Crawford Young. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 2002. ISBN 1-930365-07-1. OCLC 48376060.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. Beissinger, Mark; Kotkin, Stephen, eds. (2014). Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781107286191. ISBN 978-1-107-05417-2.
  8. "Mark R. Beissinger - Professor of Politics - Princeton University"
  9. "Faculty Directors". Princeton University. Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
  10. "AAASS National Convention 2007"


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