Anna Maria Grzymala-Busse is an American political scientist. She is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the department of political science at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. She is also a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of The Europe Center at Stanford University. Grzymala-Busse is known for her research on state development and transformation, religion and politics, political parties, informal political institutions, and post-communist politics. Previously, she was the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. Grzymala-Busse received a doctorate in government from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2000. Grzymala attended

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(AB, Public and International Affairs, 1992) and Cambridge University (M.Phil., 1993). In 2017, she was elected to the

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Books

* ''Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State''. Princeton University Press. Princeton 2023. * ''Nations under God. How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy''. Princeton University Press. Princeton 2015. * ''Rebuilding Leviathan. Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007. * ''Redeeming the Communist Past. The Regeneration of the Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002.

Awards

* 2020

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

, Field: Political Science * 2017

Laura Shannon Prize The Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies is a $10,000 book prize sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The Laura Shannon Prize is awarded annually to the author of the "best book in ...

in Contemporary European Studies, Nanovic Institute, ''Nations under God'' * 2017 Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section APSA, ''Nations under God'' * 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow * 2016 Giovanni Sartori Book Award, Honorable Mention, APSA, ''Nations under God'' * 2016 Best Book Award, European Politics and Society Section APSA, ''Nations under God'' * 2012 Alexander George Award for Best Article, Qualitative Methods Section APSA * 2008 Ed A. Hewett Prize for Best Publication on the Political Economy of the Former Soviet Union and East Central Europe * 2000 Gabriel Amond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics;

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(APSA)

References

Living people Stanford University faculty American women political scientists American political scientists Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni 1970 births Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Michigan faculty 21st-century American women {{US-polisci-bio-stub