Grzegorz Ekiert is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government at Harvard University and a senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Ekiert's research and teaching interests focus on comparative politics, regime change and democratization, civil society and social movements, and East European politics and societies. His books include: Ruling by Other Means: State-Mobilized Movements, co-editors Elizabeth J. Perry and Yan Xiaojun (Cambridge University Press, 2020); Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule, co-editor Stephen Hanson (Cambridge University Press, 2003); Rebellious Civil Society: Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, co-authored with Jan Kubik (University of Michigan Press, 1999); and The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe (Princeton University Press, 1996). His papers have been published in numerous social science journals and edited volumes in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Grzegorz Ekiert
Executive Committee
Faculty Associate
Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
