Summary
Allison D. Evans, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She specializes in comparative politics with a focus on Russian politics, labor and contentious politics. Her book, Protest in the Provinces: Coming to Terms with Capitalism in Russia's Company Towns (2025, Oxford University Press), explores sub-national variation in protest and local governance in Russia's strategically important company towns. Her work has also appeared as refereed articles in such journals as Comparative Political Studies and Comparative Politics.
Research interests
- Protest
- Urban politics
- Russian politics
- Post-communism
- Social movements
- Labor
- Resource extraction
Courses taught
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Comparative Political Movements
- U.S.-Russian Relations
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- International Law
- Graduate Seminar in Comparative Politics
Selected publications
- “Exploring Local Political Opportunity Structures: Protest and Social Control in Russia’s Provinces,” Russian Politics. 2023. Vol. 8, No. 4.
- “Privatization and Judicialization in Resource Extraction: Comparing Labor Militancy in the Oil Fields of Russia and Kazakhstan,” Comparative Politics. 2022. Vol. 55, No. 1.
- “The Dynamics of Labor Militancy in the Extractive Sector: Kazakhstan’s Oilfields and South Africa’s Platinum Mines in Comparative Perspective,” with Rudra Sil, Comparative Political Studies. 2020. Vol. 53, No. 6.
- “Labour Protest and Industrial Peace: Russian Steelworkers’ Encounters with Economic Reforms and Unraveling Social Protections,” Economy & Society. 2018. Vol. 47, No. 3.
Education
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
- M.A., Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, 2006
- B.A., Political Science and Russian, San Diego State University, 2003