Colin Johnson
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Office: Graveley Hall, North Wing, 3rd floor
Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Politics of Migration
Ph.D. Brown University, 2017
Colin Johnson joined the Department of Political Science in 2019. His research focuses on political demography, international migration, and ethnic conflict in post-communist Eurasia, with fieldwork experience in the Russian Federation, Kyrgyzstan, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. His work investigates how migration affects sociopolitical dynamics at the local and national levels in both sending and receiving societies. He is particularly interested in how emigration affects sending societies' perception and pursuit of collective futures. In 2023, he was selected as a Kazakhstan Futures Fellow in an interdisciplinary policy research program funded by the U.S. Embassy in Astana and administered by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs.
Courses Recently Taught:
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Introduction to International Relations
- Recent US Foreign Policy
- Theories of Political Economy
- Migration and Refugees
- Russian Politics
- Human Security
- International Security
- Revolution and Secession
- Senior Seminar
- World Politics
In 2022, Colin received the Benny Award for Faculty Member of the Year. Prior to ISU, he was a UCIS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh.