academics

• Timothy Snyder, historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust
  • [substack]   [bluesky]   [X]
  • Why his perspective is useful: [1]
• Steven Levitsky, Harvard professor of government who spent much of his career studying democracy and dictatorship, and how healthy democracies can slide into authoritarianism
  • [facebook]
  • appearances in the last month — [YouTube] [Google News]
  • Why his perspective is useful: [1] [2] [3]
• Abbey Heffer, PhD researcher at the University of Tübingen, political science, China specialist, her PhD focuses on authoritarian policy-making
  • [linktree]
  • [tiktok]   [youtube]
  • [substack]   [medium.com]
  • [linkedin]   [google scholar]
• Tad Stoermer, public history, PhD in history from UVA
  • [tiktok]   [youtube]   [instagram]
  • [blog]   [medium]

Academics who have emigrated from the US because of concerns that they and their field of study could be restricted:

• 📖Marci Shore, professor of history, formerly Yale (married to Timothy Snyder) [1] [2] [3]
• Timothy Snyder, see above
• 📖Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy, formerly at Yale [1] [2] [3]