Dr. Krzysztof Jasiewicz is the William P. Ames, Jr. ’41 Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Since 2014, he has been the Editor of East European Politics and Societies (EEPS), the prime academic journal in the field of East European Studies. He received his MA from Warsaw University (1972) and his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976). In the 1990s, he was the founding director of electoral studies at the Institute for Political Studies in Warsaw. At various times in his career, he taught as a visiting professor at University of Warsaw, Harvard, and UCLA, among others, and held fellowships at Oxford, Harvard, and the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington.
Jasiewicz’s research interests focus on a comparative study of politics in post-communist East-Central Europe, with particular attention devoted to elections, voting behavior, party system, and political attitudes in Poland. His recent publications include articles in EEPS, Journal of Democracy, European Journal of Political Research, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism, as well as chapters in edited volumes, in English, Polish, and French.