Khasan Redjaboev is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a pre-doctoral Fellow at the Davis Center. Khasan is an interdisciplinary social scientist with primary empirical focus on comparative politics. His research interests are in the political economy of development, regime transitions, and politics of post-communist Eurasia. In his book-style dissertation project, Khasan investigates state-sponsored, gender-indiscriminate forced labor from the late Russian Empire to post-Soviet statehood, and its role in the creation and maintenance of the authoritarian "progressive" public goods. Khasan speaks Uzbek and Russian and has research and professional experience with international organizations, governmental institutions, and private enterprise.