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Author Maria Repnikova

Maria Repnikova

Academic Correspondent, International Politics and Society

Maria Repnikova is an expert in Chinese and Russian politics and society. She is interested in the nexus between the media and state, as well as the interplay between top-down policies and on-the-ground civil society practices in these two countries. She is currently completing a book monograph on Chinese media politics as a postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Maria holds a PhD in Politics from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her work has appeared in academic publications, as well as in popular media, including Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, World Politics Review, and Russia’s Vedomosti. Find her on twitter @MariaRepnikova.

What Brave New Worlds: Top Reads

Maria Repnikova

Society & Culture

So You Have Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson This book is an exploration into the phenomenon of online public shaming. The author draws a reader in through a personal story of someone attempting...

Life Under Putin at the Movies

Maria Repnikova

Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Government, Society & Culture

It’s hard to decide what the highly acclaimed Russian political drama, Leviathan, does best: masterfully capture the key facets of Russian life under Putin or convey the universal hopelessness in any...