Resume

• 2004

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Political Science and Government

  University of California

  Berkeley

• 2000

  Social Sciences

  Yaroslavl Demidov State University

• 1994

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  Russian

  Central European

  East European and Eurasian Studies

  Wesleyan University

• Data Analysis

  Research

  Ethnography

  Public Speaking

  Teaching

  Men

  Muslims

  and Attitudes Toward Sex-Based Inequality

  Men

  Muslims

  and Attitudes Toward Sex-Based Inequality

  Are Arabs Sexist? The Institutions

  Perhaps

  But Not the People

  What is the Leninist Legacy? Assessing Twenty Years of Scholarship

  From Solidarity to Division: An Analysis of Lech Walesa’s Transition to Constituted Leadership

  Indonesia: The Benefits of Civic Engagement

  Constraining Elites in Russia and Indonesia: Political Participation and Regime Survival

  Почему в Индонезии больше демократии

  чем в России

  This article examines the role of houses of worship as institutions where individuals acquire civic skills that can be deployed for political participation in the world's largest Muslim‐majority democracy: Indonesia. Drawing on participant observation and interviews in Muslim

  Protestant

  and Catholic religious communities in Yogyakarta

  Indonesia

  this article investigates three questions: (1) What opportunities exist for individuals worshipping in Indonesian churches and mosques to develop and practice civic skills as part of their religious engagement? (2) Does civic skill opportunity vary across religious denominations? and (3) What factors might explain variation across different religious settings? The study shows that mosques offer fewer prospects for their worshippers to develop civic skills than do churches. These denominational differences can be explained by a house of worship's management practices

  which are shaped by its degree of autonomy

  style of worship

  and the relative size of the religious denomination.

  Mosques

  Churches

  and Civic Skill Opportunities in Indonesia

  Analysts and pundits from across the American political spectrum describe Islamic fundamentalism as one of the greatest threats to modern

  Western-style democracy. Yet very few non-Muslims would be able to venture an accurate definition of political Islam. Fully revised and updated

  The Many Faces of Political Islam thoroughly analyzes the many facets of this political ideology and shows its impact on global relations.

  The Many Faces of Political Islam: Religion and Politics in Muslim Societies

  Second Edition

  Epidemic Breakpoint: Confronting HIV/AIDS in Russia’s Regions

  Contacting and Complaining: Political Participation and the Failure of Democracy in Russia

  The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation

  Studies of elections in young democracies point to the risk of elections intensifying existing social conflicts

  a process observed in Indonesia in recent years. The 2017 mayoral election in Yogyakarta contradicts this trend

  presenting an empirical puzzle. Despite the fact that local conditions might encourage electoral mobilization along sectarian lines

  we find evidence of restraint. Based on analysis of the contents of sermons in 12 mosques and churches in the month before the election we identify three factors that discourage religious leaders from exercising opportunities to intensify religious tension. These include (a) elites were not motivated to exacerbate communal tension because they do not feel the election will bring about reform or change that would seriously affect their established position

  (b) even though sectarian messaging is possible

  the elites did not believe masses could be easily persuaded by sectarian political messaging

  and (c) political outbidding by using sectarian messages would risk confronting the local dominant culture of harmony. These findings suggest that several factors need to be activated for religious leaders to exercise their moral authority over worshippers for political purposes. The presence of an opportunity structure for intensifying sectarian conflict is not sufficient for that conflict to emerge.

  Religious Leaders and Elections in the Polarizing Context of Indonesia

  This article examines ideological constraint among Russian foreign policy elites

  using all seven waves of the Survey of Russian Elites 1993–2016 to explore four questions: (1) Do attitudes expressed by members of the Russian foreign policy elite form a constrained belief system? (2) What is the content of Russian elite belief systems? (3) Do different groups within the foreign policy community differ with regard to their ideological attachments? (4) How have these belief systems changed over time? My statistical analysis reveals two structured belief systems within Russia’s elite: one focused on attitudes toward the US and another regarding economic and political institutions. Attitudes toward the US have vacillated over time

  compressing in a more hostile direction in 2016. In analyzing these elites’ attitudes

  variation over time proves more significant than variation between elite groups.

  Ideology among Russian Elites: Attitudes Toward the United States as a Belief System

  Danielle

  Lussier

  Department of Sociology

  University of Gadjah Mada

  Kennan Institute

  Siberian Federal University

  Harvard's Belfer Center

  Grinnell College

  EastWest Institute

  Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Research Scholar

  Kennan Institute

  Grinnell College

  Associate Professor

  Grinnell College

  Harvard's Belfer Center

  Cambridge

  MA

  Research Associate

  Yogyakarta Province

  Indonesia

  Visiting Scholar

  Department of Sociology

  University of Gadjah Mada

  New York

  NY

  Research Analyst

  EastWest Institute

  Krasnoyarsk Territory

  Russian Federation

  Visiting Scholar

  Siberian Federal University

  Russian

  Indonesian

  Fellowship recipient

  One-semester salary support for manuscript development of book project Mobilizing the Devout: Mosques

  Churches

  and Political Participation in Indonesia

  Global Religion Research Initiative

  Jacob K. Javits Fellow

  Four-year Department of Education fellowship for graduate study (2005-2009)

  United States Department of Education

  Grant recipient

  Travel grant to fund research on HIV/AIDS in Russia

  International Research and Exchanges Board

  U.S.-Russia Young Leadership Fellow for Public Service

  A program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State

  administered by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)

  which provided for one year of sponsored academic research and public service in Russia

  United States Department of State

  Grant recipient

  $20

  520 grant for collaboration with scholars at the University of Gadjah Mada

  Yogyakarta

  Indonesia on the project “Religious Mobilization in Indonesian Houses of Worship.”

  Global Religion Research Initiative