Elizabeth Plantan
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Elizabeth Plantan's research and teaching interests encompass the global study of civil society, authoritarian regimes, and environmental politics, with a focus on the comparative and international politics of China and Russia.
- PhD, Government, Cornell University
- MA, Russian & East European Studies, Indiana University - Bloomington
- BA, Wesleyan University
Biography
Elizabeth Plantan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stetson University and a 2023-2025 Public Intellectuals Program (PIP) Fellow with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Previously, she was a 2022-2023 Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and a 2018-2020 China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Government from Cornell University. Her academic research is published or forthcoming in The Journal of Politics, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Russian Politics, among other venues. Plantan has also authored op-eds and public-facing scholarship in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Russian Analytical Digest, ChinaFile, and elsewhere.
More About Elizabeth Plantan
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative Politics
- Authoritarianism
- Environmental Activism
- Russian & Chinese Politics
- Civil Society & NGOs
Course Sampling
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Russian Politics
- Chinese Politics
- Environmental Politics
- State-society relations in authoritarian regimes
- Russian & Chinese domestic and international politics
- Environmental activism
- The politics of I/NGOs
- Transnational advocacy networks
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Strange, Austin, Elizabeth Plantan, and Wendy Leutert. 2024. Complementary Partners? Attitudes toward Multi-Actor Development Projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Journal of Politics 86(4): 1446-1461.
- Leutert, Wendy, Elizabeth Plantan, and Austin Strange. 2023. Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations. Studies in Comparative International Development 58: 195-223.
- Henry, Laura and Elizabeth Plantan. 2022. Activism in Exile: How Russian Environmentalists Maintain Voice after Exit. Post-Soviet Affairs 38(4): 274-292.
- Plantan, Elizabeth. 2022. Not All NGOs are Treated Equally: Selectivity in Civil Society Management in China and Russia, Comparative Politics 5 4(3): 501-524.
- Plantan, Elizabeth. 2018. Mass Mobilization in China and Russia: From Unexpected Victories to Unintended Consequences, Russian Politics 3(4): 513-547.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
- Evans, Alfred B. and Elizabeth Plantan. 2022. Civil Society and Social Movements. In Darrell Slider, ed., Putin's Russia, 8th Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Plantan, Elizabeth. 2020. A Tale of Two Laws: Managing Foreign Agents and Overseas NGOs in Russia and China. In Karrie J. Koesel, Valerie J. Bunce, and Jessica C. Weiss, eds., Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China and Russia. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Plantan, Elizabeth. 2015. Protecting Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Successes for Environmental Movements in China and Russia. In Carol Hager and Mary Alice Haddad, eds., NIMBY is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation Around the World. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
For an up-to-date list of publications, including op-eds and public scholarship, please visit Professor Plantan's Website