American Elections and Party Power

Daniel J. Epstein received his BA in Slavic studies from Harvard University and completed his PhD in the Harvard Department of Government, focusing on comparative politics of eastern Europe and Latin America. He served as assistant professor of political science at Colgate University for six years, during which time he won a Fulbright Teaching and Research Fellowship, which he completed in Bryansk, Russia. In 2015 he left Colgate to work as a staffer on a 2016 US presidential campaign, and then taught at Texas Tech University, during which time he also was a candidate for US Congress. He is serves as Assistant Director for Scholars Without Borders at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His research interests include political parties and elections in the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, as well as nationalism and identity in the United States and Eastern Europe.