Natalya Naumenko joined the Center as an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. Her research interests include economic history, political economy, and applied microeconomics, with a regional focus on Russia and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Naumenko received a Ph.D. in economics in 2018 from Northwestern University and spent a year as a postdoc at the Political Theory Project at Brown University. Currently, Dr. Naumenko has two working papers entitled,“The Political Economy of Famine: the Ukrainian Famine of 1933” (revise and resubmit at the Journal of Economic History), and “Demographic Consequences of the 1933 Soviet Famine.”