Political Science Faculty

Gerald M. Easter

Professor, Department Chairperson

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Gerald M. Easter

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall Room 231

Telephone: 617-552-3491

Email: gerald.easter@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Boston College
  • M.A., Columbia University
  • Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Russian Politics; Eastern Europe; Modern State; Ethnonationalism; Post-Communist Transitions

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Gerald Easter teaches courses in Comparative Politics, with a regional focus on Russia and Eastern Europe. His research interests include the modern state, post-communist transitions, comparative political economy. Current research projects focus on comparative politics of policing and pre-modern politics.   

He is the author of the following books: Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Shaping the Economic Space of Russia (ed., Ashgate, 2000), Capital, Coercion, and Post-Communist States (Cornell University Press, 2012), The Tsarina's Lost Treasure (Pegasus, 2020), and Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russia Went to War in America (Pegasus, forthcoming).

He joined the Political Science faculty at Boston College in 2000. He also taught at Georgetown University, Miami University (Ohio), European University in Saint Petersburg, Venice International University, and University of Rome at Tor Vergata. He is currently the Department Chair. 

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