Kathryn E. Stoner

About

Kathryn Stoner is the Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International

Studies at Stanford University, where she is also professor of political science (by courtesy), and a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2004, she was on the faculty at Princeton University for nine years, jointly appointed to the Department of Politics and the Princeton School for International and Public Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School). At Princeton she received the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship, awarded to outstanding junior faculty. She also served as a visiting associate professor of political science at Columbia University and an assistant professor of political science at McGill University. She has held fellowships at Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

In addition to writing many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia, she is the author or coeditor of six books, including Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2021); Transitions to Democracy: A Comparative Perspective, written and edited with Michael A. McFaul (Johns Hopkins 2013); Autocracy and Democracy in the Post-Communist World, coedited with Valerie Bunce and Michael A. McFaul (Cambridge, 2010); Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Cambridge, 2006); After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transitions, coedited with Michael McFaul (Cambridge, 2004); and Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton, 1997).

She received a BA and an MA in political science from the University of Toronto and a PhD in government from Harvard University. In 2016 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.