PoliSci prof invited to discuss ‘first post-communist generation’

Katia Levintova, an assistant professor in UW-Green Bay’s Public and Environmental Affairs academic unit, has received a grant to participate in a major symposium in April in Washington, D.C. The topic of the gathering is “Prospects and Challenges for the First Post-Communist Generation: Young People Today in Eurasia and Eastern Europe.”

Levintova is among the American junior and senior scholars selected to examine the topic; an executive policy briefing will then be shared with officials at the U.S. State Department.

Scholar participation is funded by the State Department and IREX, the International Research and Exchanges Board. The symposium is organized by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center, located in D.C.; the non-partisan think tank was established in 1968 by act of Congress as a memorial to Wilson’s concern for world affairs.

Levintova earned a bachelor’s in economic geography from Moscow State University in 1992 before coming to the United States for master’s and doctoral studies.  She joined the UW-Green Bay faculty in 2007.

At the April symposium, she will be asked to share results of her research including the linkages between the public and elites in post-communist nations of Eastern Europe, and democratization and public attitudes.