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Volha Charnysh

@vcharnysh.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. Book: “Uprooted: How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe.” I write and teach about the historical political economy of migration, conflict, and state building. http://charnysh.net/

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30.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Identity Politics: Economic Incentives, Elite Capture, and Collective Memory by Michele Rosenberg

Why did poor Southern whites defend slavery, an institution that hurt their economic prospects? In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites used clientelistic relationships and media to capture support. Read here: www.broadstreet.blog/p/identity-p...

30.09.2025 11:27 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Why did Southern whites who didn’t own slaves defend slavery, an institution that hurt their own economic prospects?
In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites relied on clientelistic relationships to capture political support: www.broadstreet.blog/publish/post...

29.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

We will be updating this post, so reach out if you study HPE and are on the market this year.

22.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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HPE candidates on the job market Job market season is here.

Looking for rising stars in Historical Political Economy? 🌍📚
Check out this year’s job market candidates: www.broadstreet.blog/p/hpe-candid...

22.09.2025 18:38 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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HPE candidates on the job market Job market season is here.

Searching in HPE or related fields? Check out these great students/postdocs on the market!

22.09.2025 18:15 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to the four MIT Political Science faculty members who were included on MIT's summer reading list: Professors Andrea Campbell, @vcharnysh.bsky.social, Fotini Christia and @kathleenthelen.bsky.social!

news.mit.edu/2025/summer-... @mit-cis.bsky.social

27.06.2025 15:20 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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‪Interested in “the historical roots of electoral politics” and have a free spot on your Friday afternoon schedule? Come see this fun EPSA panel! Ft. @vcharnysh.bsky.social‬, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, ‪‪@rantuna.bsky.social, Jose Maycas-Sardi, @nilsblossey.bsky.social‬, and Makoto Fukumoto

26.06.2025 13:31 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social

02.06.2025 07:44 — 👍 26    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 1
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The Myth of Meritocracy: How Exams Helped Build an Empire By Peng Peng (Washington University in St. Louis)

New Broadstreet post by Peng Peng: Narratives of Imperial China as a meritocracy need a corrective. Using data from Qing dynasty she shows exams didn’t just determine who governed—they created a bureaucracy that was culturally & ideologically unified, raising questions about how we study meritocracy

31.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Check out this fun new Broadstreet post by @alicirone.bsky.social on trends in crowdsourcing historical data

18.02.2025 13:50 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Uprooted Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Uprooted

"In this theoretically rich, historically nuanced study of post-WWII population transfers, Charnysh offers evidence that will make liberals swoon: where the receiving state is willing to supply public goods, diversity outperforms homogeneity."

Uprooted by @vcharnysh.bsky.social

cup.org/4hskLQi

07.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine A SSEES Rethinking Eastern Europe and Eurasia seminar with Prof Eugene Finkel, in conversation with Dr Olesya Khromeychuk. This event is co-organised by the Ukrainian Institute London

Due to high demand, we've moved our event with @efinkel.bsky.social to a larger venue and made more tickets available. Don't miss out, Londoners! 13/2/35, 6pm, full details+registration below. Co-organised by @uclssees.bsky.social and @ukrinstitute.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/events...

29.01.2025 10:18 — 👍 35    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2
Eugene Finkel, "Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine" (Basic Books, 2024) - New Books Network

The book isn't going to promote itself, so I will. Here is a New Books Network podcast episode on Intent to Destroy, if you don't have anything better to listen to. Thanks to John Vsetecka for the conversation.

29.01.2025 14:05 — 👍 36    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

An outstanding HPE workshop in a stunning setting—don't miss the chance to apply! Deadline: Feb 28 🔗 shorturl.at/w96jk

30.01.2025 13:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great opportunity!

27.01.2025 18:37 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out my new paper w Brenton and Emiel. Just out at World Politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

27.01.2025 19:15 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Great opportunity for students working on East Central Europe!

27.01.2025 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing the Centre for Democratic Resilience - world-leading research and educational programmes to understand and promote the resilience of liberal democracy: ow.ly/1sKl50UL7Wn

27.01.2025 14:00 — 👍 67    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 3

Two days until the deadline! Don't forget!

13.01.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Big thanks to @javiermejiac.bsky.social for an engaging conversation about my new book, Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe. 📖✨
Catch our discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ1lW3EqE8w
📚 Get the book: tinyurl.com/27pwac6v

22.12.2024 13:57 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🎙️ New #EPHPodcast with @vcharnysh.bsky.social!

We discussed her work on mass displacement: how post-WWII Poland & West Germany turned diversity & ruptured ties into stronger states and thriving local economies.

Plus, idea generation beyond academia.

🎥 Watch: youtu.be/fQ1lW3EqE8w?...

22.12.2024 13:28 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 2
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On #InternationalMigrantsDay we highlight the struggles of migrants without legal status.

❗ These people are highly vulnerable to labour exploitation & fundamental #rights abuses.

👉 Understanding the rights of those 'outside the law' is complex.

Read a blogpost by Clare Fox-Ruhs 📌 loom.ly/FTTA-kc

18.12.2024 11:29 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

Amazing!! Congratulations, Guillermo!

18.12.2024 13:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Call for Papers, it’s free to attend for presenters: Young Scholars Conference 2025
🗓️ May 5-6, 2025 | UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
📊 Theme: History, Social Science, and Digital Methods for Researching China
📝 Abstract by: Jan. 15, 2025
🔗 Submit here: ow.ly/hpe150UsSee
🚩Details: ow.ly/WmPq50UsSef

17.12.2024 19:54 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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The projects of Politics of Diversity In the Politics of Diversity group we study real-world questions on political representation and power, struggles for equality, backlash, oppression and policies. We focus on three dimensions of polit...

The website of my research group Politics of Diversity is online! Scroll and explore our ongoing and completed projects on migration/ethnicity/race, gender/sexuality and intersectionality www.politicsofdiversity.eu

16.12.2024 09:55 — 👍 36    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
University Assistant (postdoc) University Assistant (postdoc)

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

16.12.2024 09:19 — 👍 226    🔁 139    💬 6    📌 10

Book award 🚨! Deadline for the European Pol. & Soc. APSA book award is March 15th. To nominate a book on European Politics please email an electronic copy at cavaille@umich.edu.
Committee members: Isabela Mares, @simonhix.bsky.social and myself!

13.12.2024 14:27 — 👍 28    🔁 35    💬 1    📌 3
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How information about historic carbon emissions affects support for climate aid: evidence from a survey experiment - Climatic Change In recent years, international climate negotiations have reached increasing consensus that the wealthiest countries should make significant financial contributions to offset the damages caused by the ...

Following #COP29, critical to understand sources of support, resistance for climate aid to the Global South. Published today in Climatic Change, we highlight that messages about America's historic carbon emissions boost support for climate-related foreign aid...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

11.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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