Barbara Junisbai

Barbara Junisbai

Guest Speaker

Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, Pitzer College

Junisbai has done extensive research on politics and society in Central Eurasia, and her book manuscript on intra-elite conflict in post-Soviet autocracies is currently under review at a university press. In 2020, she was selected as a country expert on Kazakhstan for the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), a team of social scientists devoted to creating a better understanding of democracy and the factors necessary for creating representative governments.