American Elections and Party Power

Dan 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 presidential campaign, and then taught at Texas Tech University. He is currently a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University and also teaches a course on ethnic conflict at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include political parties and elections in the United States, Eastern Europe, and Latin America; and national identity, separatism, and ethnic conflict.