Anastasia Shesterinina
Professor Anastasia Shesterinina is Chair in Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Comparative Study of Civil War at the Department of Politics, the University of York, where she leads the Civil War Paths project "Understanding Civil War from Pre- to Post-War Stages: A Comparative Approach" funded by a £1.2m UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Her fieldwork-intensive research examines the internal dynamics of and international intervention in civil war, with a focus on ordinary people's mobilization, ex-combatant reintegration, and civilian protection in armed conflict.
Her book Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhaziapublished with Cornell University Press in 2021, received the 2022 American Political Science Association's Charles Taylor Book Award and Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Peace Research, European Journal of International Relations, and International Peacekeeping.
