Colin Johnson, PhD

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Idaho State, where I offer a wide array of courses related to international politics. My research focuses on political demography, international migration, and ethnic conflict in post-communist Eurasia, with fieldwork experience in the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. My work investigates how migration affects sociopolitical dynamics at the local and national levels in both sending and receiving societies. I am particularly interested in how emigration affects sending societies' perception and pursuit of collective futures.

In 2023, I was selected as a Kazakhstan Futures Fellow in an interdisciplinary policy research program funded by the U.S. Embassy in Astana and administered by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs. Prior to ISU, I was a UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

CV

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Contact

colinjohnson (at) isu.edu