Janet Elise Johnson

I am a specialist in comparative politics, public policy, and gender studies, with a focus on Russia, Central-Europe, and the Nordic countries. My books include The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (co-edited with Katalin Fábián and Mara Lazda, 2022), The Gender of Informal Politics (2018), Gender Violence in Russia (2009), and Living Gender after Communism (co-edited with Jean Robinson 2007). In the last few years, I have published articles in Post-Soviet Affairs, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Human Rights Review, Journal of Social Policy Studies, Politics & Gender, Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Social Policy, and Aspasia as well as in The New Yorker, The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, and The Boston Review. I recently served on served on the Executive Committee of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and coordinates a monthly workshop on Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, now affiliated with the CUNY Grad Center.