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Susanne A. Wengle
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science
210 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
wengle@berkeley.edu / (510) 501 1015
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. expected June 2010
−Dissertation: Power Politics: The Political Economy of Electricity Sector Liberalization in post-Soviet Russia
−Dissertation committee: Kiren Chaudhry and Steven Vogel (co-chairs), Jason Wittenberg, Yuri Slezkine (history)
University of California, Berkeley, MA, Political Science, May 2004
Columbia University, MIA, School of International and Public Affairs, May 2002
Moscow State University, Visiting Scholar, History Department, Fall 2001
London School of Economics, B.Sc., International Relations (First Class Honors), June 2000
Publications
Wengle, S. (2008) “The monetization of l’goty: Changing patterns of welfare politics and provision in Russia” Europe-Asia Studies, 60:5, 739 - 756 (with Michael Rasell)
Wengle, S. (2008) “Reforming the L’goty System: The Future of In-kind Benefits in Post-Soviet Russia” Russian Analytical Digest, No.37, 6 (with Michael Rasell)
(available at: http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/)
Wengle, S. (2007) “Power Politics: Electricity Sector Reforms in Post-Soviet Russia” Russian Analytical Digest, No.27, 6 (available at: http://www.res.ethz.ch/analysis/rad/)
reprinted in Russia’s Energy Sector between Politics and Business, Arbeitspapier und Materialen der Forschungstelle Osteuropa Universitaet Bremen, Robert Orttung et al., eds. No.92, Feb. 2008, 36
Wengle, S. (2007) “Centralize to Liberalize? The Politics of Creating Electricity Markets in Post-Soviet Russia” (dissertation abstract) Economic Sociology - European Newsletter, 8/2, 45 (available at http://econsoc.mpifg.de/)
Wengle, S. (2005) “The Monetization of L’goty: Politics of Welfare Reform and Institutional Change in Russia”, Newsletter of the Institute for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, 22/5, Fall 2005
Wengle, S. (2003) “Current State of Reforms in the Water Provision of Azerbaijan: Recommendations for a coherent and effective donor policy” policy paper for the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (available at http://www.seco-cooperation.admin.ch/laender/00627/ )
Presentations
“Russia Today” Presentation at the World Affairs Council, April 2009.
“Managers, Energetiki and Power Politics: Conflicting Expert Discourses during the Privatization of the Russian Electricity Sector” presented at the Soyuz Post-Socialist Cultural Studies Conference, UC Berkeley, April 25, 2008
“Political Economy of Electricity Sector Reforms” presented at the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference, Stanford University, January 25, 2008
“Regional Development in a Centralized System? Electricity sector reforms in the Russian Far East” presented at the conference Prospects for Economic Development in the Russian Far East, Far Eastern State University (DVGU), Vladivostok, October 17, 2007
"Centralize to Liberalize? Electricity Sector Liberalization in post-Soviet Russia" presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 30, 2007
“Power Politics: Creating and Governing Electricity Markets in post-Soviet Economies” presented at the Political Science Graduate Student Association Conference, UC Berkeley, April 20, 2006
“The Politics of Welfare Reform in Russia” presented at the conference Bridging Disciplines, Spanning the World: Approaches to Identities, Institutions and Inequalities at the Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, April 8, 2005
“Understanding the institutional environment of corruption in the post-Soviet transition: Corruption as an indicator of a mismatch between old and new institutions” presented at the conference Power and Power-Relations in East-Central Europe, UC Berkeley, November 2002
Awards and Grants
John L. Simpson Memorial Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, UC Berkeley, Dissertation write-up 2009-2010
Janggen-Poehn Foundation (St.Gallen, Switzerland), award for promising young academics, 2008-09
UC Berkeley Travers Department of Political Science, Finishing Year Fellowship, 2008-09
IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunity, fieldwork in the Russian Far East and Siberia, September – December 2007
University of California, Dean’s Normative Time Award, 2007
William Davidson Institute/Department of State, Title VIII Research and Training on Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union, fieldwork in Moscow, August – December 2006
Foreign Language and Area Studies (summer FLAS), US Department of Education, Russian language training at Moscow State Linguistics University, June – July 2006
Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Eurasia Program Dissertation Development Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 2006
Foreign Language and Area Studies (academic year FLAS), US Department of Education, Hungarian language training at UC Berkeley, 2005-06
Berkeley Program in Soviet and post-Soviet Studies, Summer Research Fellowship, preliminary dissertation research in Russia, Summer 2005
Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2005
Foreign Language and Area Studies (academic year FLAS), US Department of Education, Russian language training at UC Berkeley, 2004-05
Foreign Language and Area Studies (summer FLAS), US Department of Education, Russian language training at Moscow State University, 2004
Berkeley Program in Soviet and post-Soviet Studies Fellowship, Academic Year 2003-04
Harriman Institute (Columbia University) Junior Fellowship, for commitment to Russian and post-Soviet Studies, Academic Year 2001-02
Harriman Institute/PepsiCo Foundation Fellowship (Columbia University), for field research, MIA dissertation research, Summer 2002
European Union Leonardo Grant, support as a research assistant at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Summer 2001
London School of Economics Graduate Studies Award for Academic Merit, 2000 (declined)
Teaching Experience
Introduction to Comparative Politics, Graduate student instructor for class taught by Pradeep Chhibber, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, Spring 2008
Theories of Economic Development, Graduate student instructor for class taught by Kiren Chaudhry, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, Fall 2004
International Organizations & Global Challenges, Graduate student instructor for class taught by Urs Cipolat, UC Berkeley Study Abroad Program (Freiburg and Geneva, Switzerland), Summer 2004
Work/Consulting Experience
Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Bern, Switzerland
Junior Consultant for Development and Transition Section, Spring 2003
Swiss Organization for Facilitating Investment, Zürich, Switzerland
Consultant for a World Bank project on economic diversification in Azerbaijan, 2002-03
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France
Research Assistant at the Development Assistance Council, Summer 2001
McKinsey & Co., Vienna, Austria and Cologne, Germany
Summer Associate at Finance and Insurance Group, Summer 1999
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Internship at the Economic Commission for Europe, UNECE, 1998
Fieldwork Experience
2007 5 months (Feb. and Sept. – Dec.), Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Irkutsk, Russia
2006 6 months (June – December), Moscow, Russia
2005 1 month, Moscow, Russia
2004 2 months, Moscow, Russia
2003 1 month, Baku, Azerbaijan
2002 2 months, Tbilisi, Georgia and Yerevan, Armenia
Languages
German native language
English fluent
French fluent
Russian fluent speaking and reading
Hungarian elementary
Last updated:
August 27, 2009