Sophie is a PhD student at Central European University. Her research focuses on opposition against authoritarianism in the post-Soviet space.
Sophie’s current project tends to Russian opposition organisations who contest the Putin regime from exile.
The project elaborates on coordination between exiled opposition groups, aiming to advance an explanation of Russian opposition coordination in exile before and after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Based on a novel data set compiled from Telegram channel data, the first part of the project leverages the tools of social network analysis to shed light on a phenomenon that has become increasingly wide-spread across the globe but is rarely looked at in its own right.
Conference Presentations
CEECON24 (7 - 8 Oct 2024, FU Berlin): Exiled Opposition Against Authoritarianism: Patterns of Coordination Between Russian Exile Groups, 2022-2024
Teaching
FT 2024/25: Research Methods for the Social Sciences (Inna Melnykovska and Levente Littvay)
BA-level Tutorial (Invisible University for Ukraine)
ST 2024: Introduction to Methods (Matthijs Bogaards)
BA-level Tutorial (BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics; CEU)
WT 2024: Field Research, Interviewing and Qualitative Data Analysis (Inna Melnykovska)
MA-level Teaching Assistantship (MA Political Science; CEU)