Andrew Blinkinsop
Personal Statement
Andrew is a first year PhD student with interests situated at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics. His research interests include authoritarian governance, public opinion and foreign policy-making, ideology, post-Soviet politics, and Russian and U.S. foreign policy. Andrew earned his B.A. in 2013 from Harvard University, and since then has lived a peripatetic life, teaching English in Russia, gardening in Seattle, working in international development in D.C., and tutoring in prisons in Boston.