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Lincoln Mitchell
International Affairs Building, Room 1215
Associate Adjunct Professor; Associate Research Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Phone:
212-854-2514
lam13@columbia.edu
Biography:
Lincoln Mitchell teaches Elections and Political Development.
Before joining Columbia’s faculty, Lincoln was a practitioner of political development and continues to work in that field now. In addition to serving as Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Georgia from 2002-2004, Lincoln has worked on political development issues in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Lincoln also worked for years as a political consultant in New York City advising and managing domestic political campaigns.
Dr. Mitchell’s current research includes work on US-Georgia relations, political development in the former Soviet Union, and the role of democracy promotion in American foreign policy. His book Uncertain Democracy: US Foreign Policy and Georgia’s Rose Revolution was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. He has also written articles on these topics in The National Interest, Orbis, The Moscow Times, the Washington Quarterly, The American Interest, Survival, the Central Asian Survey, The New York Daily News and Current History as well as for numerous online publications including the online sections of The Washington Post and the New York Times and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Transitions Online. Lincoln has been quoted extensively in most major American, Georgian and Russian newspapers and appeared on numerous television and radio programs and podcasts including Fox and Friends, All Things Considered, Lou Dobbs, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, ABC Nightline, the Diane Rehm Show, Up and In: The Baseball Prospectus Podcast, The BBC as well as in Russian and Georgian television. Lincoln is also a frequent blogger on The Huffington Post where he writes primarily about domestic politics in the US and on The Faster Times where he writes about US Foreign Policy and baseball. He is currently working on a book about the Color Revolutions in the former Soviet Union.
Lincoln earned his Ph.D from Columbia University’s department of political science in 1996.
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