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 a comparative political scientist whose research crosses discriplinary boundaries. His research interests are in the political economy of development, public administration and governance, and politics of post-communist Eurasia. In his first book project, Khasan investigates communist colonial institutions, such as state-sponsored, gender-indiscriminate forced labor and policies on women from the late Russian Empire to post-Soviet statehood and their role in the creation and maintenance of authoritarian "progressive" public goods. Khasan speaks Uzbek and Russian and has research and professional experience with international organizations, governmental institutions, and private enterprise.
Khasan has been a pre-doctoral fellow with the Davis Center for academic years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025.
