Guzel Garifullina

Assistant professor at the University of Richmond

Dr. Guzel Garifullina, assistant professor of leadership studies at the University of Richmond, studies comparative politics, authoritarianism, and political behavior. In her research, she investigates the effects of political leadership on governance and the role of selection procedures in encouraging political ambition under authoritarianism. Her main geographic focus is Russia and the post-Soviet region. Dr. Garifullina earned her doctorate in political science from the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill in 2021. Prior to joining the University of Richmond in 2023, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (Stanford University) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies (University of Rochester).