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Stephen E. Hanson Professor of Political Science Herbert J. Ellison Professor Director, Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies Office: Gowen 146 (206) 543-9460 shanson@u.washington.edu Curriculum Vitae

Stephen E. Hanson (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991) is the Ellison Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He is the Director of the Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington.

Hanson is the author of Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), which received the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich book award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and a co-author (with Richard Anderson Jr., M. Steven Fish, and Philip Roeder) of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001). His numerous articles analyzing postcommunist Russia in comparative perspective have appeared in such journals as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Post-Soviet Affairs, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and East European Politics and Societies. He is Assistant General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series of Cambridge University Press, and has served on the editorial boards of Slavic Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Demokratizatsiya.

Hanson won the University of Washington's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. His teaching interests include comparative politics and Russian politics.