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Stanislav Budnitsky

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Postdoctoral Fellow, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University

I am a scholar of global communication with a focus on Russia and Russia-West relations at the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University-Bloomington and the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. My research and teaching interests include internet governance, public diplomacy and nation branding, nationalism, and political satire.

I spent 2018-2020 as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, I was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Oxford University Media Policy Summer Institute, and Stanford University U.S.-Russia Forum, among others. My academic writings have appeared in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Internet Policy Review, and an edited collection, The Net and the Nation-State, from Cambridge University Press.

I received my PhD in Communication from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I hold Master’s degrees in Nationalism Studies from Budapest’s Central European University and in Journalism from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. Prior to graduate studies, I was a Moscow-based media writer and producer.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 2020–present
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Russian and East European Institute, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington
  • 2018–2020
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

Education

  • 2018 
    Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) , PhD / Communication
  • 2012 
    Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), MA / Nationalism Studies
  • 2011 
    Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), MA / Media Management
  • 2009 
    Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), BA./ Journalism

Publications

  • 2022
    A relational approach to digital sovereignty: e-Estonia between Russia and the West, International Journal of Communication
  • 2020
    Russia's great power imaginary and pursuit of digital multipolarity, Internet Policy Review
  • 2018
    Branding internet sovereignty: Digital media and the Chinese-Russian cyberalliance, European Journal of Cultural Studies