Margaret Hanson

Margaret Hanson is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies. She is a political economist whose interdisciplinary and multi-methods research examines state-society relations in autocracies. Specifically, she focuses on how legal institutions, economic development, support for democracy, and migration shape state-society relations under dictatorship. Regionally, she specializes in the politics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. She teaches classes in comparative politics, economic development and globalization, authoritarian politics, political economy, and qualitative and mixed research methods.