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Professor in International Relations, University of Warwick

Prof. Maria Koinova is Professor in International Relations at the University of Warwick and Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (fall 2023/April 2024). She is currently the Principal Investigator of the REPSF Project "Engaging the Ukrainian Diaspora in Reconstruction and Development" conducted in cooperation with OSCE-ODIHR. Koinova is the author of "Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States" (Oxford University Press 2021) and "Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States" (UPENN, 2013), and of over 40 academic articles and book chapters stemming from a large-scale European Research Council Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” she directed as Principal Investigator (2012-2017). Recently, Koinova was on the governing board of the EU Jean Monnet network "Between the EU and Russia" (2018-2022), and a Principal investigator of a research project on "Polycentric Governance of Transit and Irregular Migration" (2019-2020) sponsored by the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Germany.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Professor in International Relations, University of Warwick

Education

  • 2018 
    University of Notre Dame, Research Fellow, Kroc Center for International Peace Studies
  • 2011 
    Harvard University, Visiting research fellow
  • 2008 
    Dartmouth College, Research fellow
  • 2007 
    Cornell University, Research fellow
  • 2005 
    European University Institute, Ph.D. Political and Social Sciences
  • 2005 
    Harvard University, Research and Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Davis Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    Engaging the Ukrainian Diaspora in Reconstruction and Development
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Research England
  • 2019
    Polycentric Governance of Transit Migration
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Centre for Global Cooperation Research
  • 2011
    Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    European Research Council, Starting Grant