Sarah Wilson Sokhey

Sarah Wilson Sokhey (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2010) joined the faculty at the University of Colorado as an Assistant Professor in 2011. She specializes in comparative politics and political economy with a regional focus on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, the Caucuses, and Central Asia. Her research examines welfare state and the politics surrounding public goods provision. Her book, The Political Economy of Pension Policy Reversals in Post-Communist Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2017), won the Ed A. Hewett book prize for an outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe. Her current work focuses on local provision of public services in Ukraine during wartime.