Maria Snegovaya is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a fellow a part of the Illiberalism Studies Program. Since 2020, Snegovaya has been a postdoctoral fellow at Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a research fellow at the Center for European Union, Transatlantic, and Trans-European Space Studies. Her research interests include party politics, political behavior, and political economy, and she explores the ongoing democratic backsliding and reautocratization in Eastern Europe and the tactics used by Russian actors and proxies who circulate disinformation to exploit these dynamics in the region. She also studies Russia’s domestic and foreign policy. Snegovaya’s recently published articles are “Fellow Travelers or Trojan Horses? Similarities Across Pro-Russian Parties’ Electorates in Europe” Party Politics (2021) and “How Ex-Communist Left Parties Reformed and Lost” West European Politics (2021). Snegovaya speaks English, French, and Russian.