Dr. Anastasiia Vlasenko is the Petro Jacyk Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Ukrainian Studies. She is a recent HURI Research Fellow at Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute and a recent Postdoctoral Fellow at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Vlasenko  studies legislative politics and democratization with a specialization in the politics of Ukraine. Her monograph project, “Legislators in Networks: Corruption, Clientelism, and Law Making” investigates how legislative networks formed through parliamentary aids can affect rent-seeking behavior in the Ukrainian parliament. Vlasenko is particularly interested in the study of corruption, legislative politics, transitional period reforms, propaganda, electoral politics, and forecasting. Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics. Vlasenko received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Florida State University in 2022. In 2020-2021, she worked at the Hertie School in Berlin as a visiting researcher. At Florida State University, New York University, and Kyiv School of Economics, Vlasenko taught courses on comparative politics, public policy, quantitative methods, and post-Soviet studies.