Laura is a Comparative Politics Ph.D. student at Princeton. Her research concerns issues of nation-building, political participation, and authoritarianism, with an emphasis on states of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Prior to Princeton, Laura was a Fulbright researcher in Estonia. She holds a dual B.A. (summa cum laude) in Government and Legal Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from Bowdoin College.