Aleksandra Vaisberg
Graduate School Student
Bio
Aleksandra Vaisberg is a first-year PhD student specializing in comparative politics. Her research interests include authoritarian regimes and post-Soviet Eurasia. Most recently, she has been part of the “Russia’s Wartime Élite” project investigating career trajectories of deputy heads of Russian federal executive bodies. Before joining Yale, she was also a project intern at Transparency International – Russia and an online teaching fellow at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
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Articles
- “How Putin Rules Russia’s Nomenklatura.” Russian Analytical Digest 329 (2025): 10-16: Burkhardt, Fabian, Maiia Guseva, Timofei Mikhasev, Aleksandra Vaisberg, and Mariia Zheleznova
Areas of Interest
- Comparative Politics
- Post-Soviet Politics
- Law and Society
- Qualitative and Mixed Methods