J. Paul Goode
Professor and McMillan Chair in Russian Studies
- DPhil (University of Oxford), MA (University of Wisconsin-Madison), MPhil (University of Oxford), BA (University of Texas-Austin)
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J. Paul Goode is a Professor and McMillan Chair of Russian Studies at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. His current research broadly focuses on nationalism and authoritarianism in Russia and Eurasia.
Professor Goode is Editor-in-Chief of . He also serves on the editorial boards for Nationalities Papers, Russian Politics and Social Science Quarterly and the advisory board for Nations and Nationalism. He is a longstanding member of the Program Committee and the advisory board for the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Previously he served as Convenor of the Research Group on Nationalism, Populism, and Radicalism at the University of Bath and was founding Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism and Coordinator for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He also served on the international advisory board for the Department Development Partnership Program of European University at St. Petersburg.
Current Research Projects
- Principle Investigator, “Russia’s Media at War: Domestic Content, International Transfer, and Perceived Credibility” (SSHRC)
- Co-PI, “Democracy in Exile (DemEx): A Comparative Study of Russian Migrant Communities after the Full- Scale Invasion of Ukraine” (NSF/NCN/SSHRC)
- Co-Lead, East European and Transnational Network (DND MINDS)
Books
J. Paul Goode, ed. Autocracy, Influence, War: Russian Propaganda Today. University of Michigan Press (forthcoming).
J. Paul Goode. The Decline of Regionalism in Putin鈥檚 Russia: Boundary Issues. Routledge, 2011.
Guest Edited Special Issues
鈥淓veryday Nationalism in World Politics,鈥 Nationalities Papers 48, no. 6 (2020).
鈥淥bserving Autocracies from the Ground Floor.鈥 Social Science Quarterly 97, no. 4 (2016).
鈥淣ew Frontiers in the Comparative Study of Ethnic Politics and Nationalism.鈥 Social Science Quarterly 96, no. 3 (2015).
Recent Publications
J. Paul Goode. 2025. 鈥淩ussian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times.鈥 Nationalities Papers, May 26, 1鈥21. .
Paul Goode. 2024. 鈥淢isreading Russian Studies: A Response to Sarty.鈥 Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies 17 (2): 146鈥56. .
David R. Stroup and J. Paul Goode. 2023. 鈥淥n the Outside Looking In: Ethnography and Authoritarianism.鈥 Perspectives on Politics 21 (4): 1162鈥77. .
Paul Goode. 2023. Spinning Prigozhin: How Russian Television Managed the Wagner Mutiny. No. 5. The Russia Program at GW Online Papers. George Washington University. .
Paul Goode. 2023. 鈥淗ow Russian Television Normalizes the War.鈥 Riddle Russia, July 14. .
Paul Goode. 2022. How Russian Television Prepared the Public for War. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 761. Washington, D.C. .
J. Paul Goode, David R. Stroup, and Elizaveta Gaufman. 2022. 鈥淓veryday Nationalism in Unsettled Times: In Search of Normality during Pandemic.鈥 Nationalities Papers 50 (1): 61鈥85. .
Laruelle, Marlene, Mikhail Alexseev, Cynthia Buckley, et al. 2021. 鈥淧andemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield.鈥 Problems of Post-Communism 68 (1): 1鈥16. .
J. Paul Goode. 2021. 鈥淧atriotic Legitimation and Everyday Patriotism in Russia鈥檚 Constitutional Reform.鈥 Russian Politics. Russian Politics 6 (1): 112鈥29. .
J. Paul Goode. 2021. 鈥淏ecoming Banal: Incentivizing and Monopolizing the Nation in Post-Soviet Russia.鈥 Ethnic and Racial Studies 44 (4): 679鈥97. .
J. Paul Goode. 2021. 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence and the Future of Nationalism.鈥 Nations and Nationalism 27 (2): 363鈥76. .
J. Paul Goode. 2020. Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 650. Washington, D.C. .
J. Paul Goode. 2020. 鈥淧atriotism without Patriots? Perm蝿-36 and Patriotic Legitimation in Russia.鈥 Slavic Review 79 (2): 390鈥411. .
J. Paul Goode. 2020. 鈥淕uest Editor鈥檚 Introduction: 鈥楨veryday Nationalism in World Politics: Agents, Contexts, and Scale.鈥欌 Nationalities Papers 48 (6): 974鈥82. .
J. Paul Goode. 2019. 鈥淩ussia鈥檚 Ministry of Ambivalence: The Failure of Civic Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Russia.鈥 Post-Soviet Affairs 35 (2): 140鈥60. .