Mark Beissinger

{{Short description|American political scientist}}{{Infobox academic | name = Mark Beissinger | occupation = Political scientist | alma_mater = Duke University (BA) <br/> Harvard University (PhD) | discipline = Comparative politics <br/> Contentious politics | main_interests = Social movements and contentious politics, nationalism, statebuilding, post-communist politics | birth_date = November 28, 1954 | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | workplaces = Princeton University (2006–present)<br/> University of Wisconsin–Madison (1988–2006)<br/> Harvard University (1982–1987) }}

'''Mark R. Beissinger''' (November 28, 1954) is an American political scientist. He is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Politics at Princeton University.

== Early life == Beissinger was born on November 28, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Beissinger received his bachelor's degree ''magna cum laude'' from Duke University in 1976 and his doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1982.

== Career == He taught at Harvard from 1982 until 1987, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,<ref name="PS">Staff (March 1997) "People in Political Science" ''PS: Political Science and Politics'' 30(1): pp. 81-95, page 81</ref> from 1988 until 2006. He served as chair of the UW-Madison Political Science Department from 2001 to 2004 and was the founding director of Wisconsin's [https://creeca.wisc.edu/ Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia].

Since 2006 he has taught at Princeton University as a full professor.<ref>[https://www.princeton.edu/~mbeissin/ "Mark R. Beissinger - Professor of Politics - Princeton University"]</ref> He served as director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty Directors |url=https://www.princeton.edu/piirs/people/directors/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019212047/http://www.princeton.edu/piirs/people/directors/ |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |publisher=Princeton University |accessdate=September 28, 2014}}</ref> In 2007 he was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).<ref>[http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/convention/2007-program-complete.pdf "AAASS National Convention 2007"]</ref>

His work has been supported by fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the Wissenshaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Science Foundation, and the John M. Olin Foundation.

== Works == He is author of the books ''The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion'' (2022),<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224749/the-revolutionary-city|title=The Revolutionary City|date=2022-04-12|isbn=978-0-691-22474-9|language=en |last1=Beissinger |first1=Mark R. |publisher=Princeton University Press }}</ref> ''Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State'' (2002),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Beissinger |first=Mark R. |title=Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the Soviet State |date=2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-511-04183-7 |location=Cambridge |oclc=56352106}}</ref> and ''Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Beissinger|first=Mark R.|title=Scientific management, socialist discipline, and Soviet power|date=1988|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-79490-7|location=Cambridge, Mass.|oclc=17258906}}</ref> (1988), and co-edited ''The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society'' (1990, with Lubomyr Hajda),<ref>{{Cite book|last=HAJDA|first=LUBOMYR. BEISSINGER, MARK|title=NATIONALITIES FACTOR IN SOVIET POLITICS AND SOCIETY.|date=2019|publisher=ROUTLEDGE|isbn=978-0-367-29425-0|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1122160132}}</ref> ''Beyond State Crisis? Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Soviet Eurasia Compared'' (2002, with M. Crawford Young),<ref>{{Cite book|title=Beyond state crisis? : postcolonial Africa and post-Soviet Eurasia in comparative perspective|date=2002|publisher=Woodrow Wilson Center Press|others=Mark R. Beissinger, Crawford Young|isbn=1-930365-07-1|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=48376060}}</ref> and ''Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe'' (2014, with Stephen Kotkin).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/historical-legacies-of-communism-in-russia-and-eastern-europe/113B5DDE0E278ECE05C2178BE87044FA|title=Historical Legacies of Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe|date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-05417-2|editor-last=Beissinger|editor-first=Mark|location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/cbo9781107286191|editor-last2=Kotkin|editor-first2=Stephen}}</ref>

== Recognition ==

* 2023 Luebbert Best Book Award for the best book published in the field of comparative politics over the previous two years, presented by the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association. * 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship. * 2003 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs * 2003 Mattei Dogan Award presented by the Society for Comparative Research for the best book published in the field of comparative research * Award for Best Book on European Politics presented by the Organized Section on European Politics and Society of the American Political Science Association.

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [https://www.princeton.edu/~mbeissin/ Academic homepage]

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