Caterina Chiopris is an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her research focuses on the contemporary phenomenon of democratic backsliding, especially in Eastern Europe, and topics within historical political economy. Methodologically, she is interested in natural experiments, networks, and natural language processing.
Chiopris received her Ph.D. in political economy and government at Harvard University. She holds an M.A. in analytical political economy from Duke University, and a B.A. in international relations (international law, economics, and political science) from TU Dresden. She studied Chinese language and culture at Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, and Yunnan University.
At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Chiopris chairs the Seminar on European Development in a Historical Perspective.
