J. Paul Goode

J. Paul Goode is a Professor and McMillan Chair of Russian Studies at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. His current research broadly focuses on nationalism and authoritarianism in Russia and Eurasia.

Professor Goode is Editor-in-Chief of Communist and Post-Communist Studies. He also serves on the editorial boards for Nationalities Papers, Russian Politics and Social Science Quarterly and the advisory board for Nations and Nationalism. He is a longstanding member of the Program Committee and the advisory board for the Association for the Study of Nationalities. Previously he served as Convenor of the Research Group on Nationalism, Populism, and Radicalism at the University of Bath and was founding Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism and Coordinator for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He also served on the international advisory board for the Department Development Partnership Program of European University at St. Petersburg.

Current Research Projects

• Principle Investigator, “Russia’s Media at War: Domestic Content, International Transfer, and Perceived Credibility” (SSHRC)
• Co-PI, “Democracy in Exile (DemEx): A Comparative Study of Russian Migrant Communities after the Full- Scale Invasion of Ukraine” (NSF/NCN/SSHRC)
• Co-Lead, East European and Transnational Network (DND MINDS)

Books

J. Paul Goode, ed. Autocracy, Influence, War: Russian Propaganda Today. University of Michigan Press (forthcoming).

J. Paul Goode. The Decline of Regionalism in Putin’s Russia: Boundary Issues. Routledge, 2011.

Guest Edited Special Issues

“Everyday Nationalism in World Politics,” Nationalities Papers 48, no. 6 (2020).

“Observing Autocracies from the Ground Floor.” Social Science Quarterly 97, no. 4 (2016).

“New Frontiers in the Comparative Study of Ethnic Politics and Nationalism.” Social Science Quarterly 96, no. 3 (2015).

Recent Publications

J. Paul Goode. 2025. “Russian Propaganda from V to Z: Projecting Banal and Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times.” Nationalities Papers, May 26, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.28.

Paul Goode. 2024. “Misreading Russian Studies: A Response to Sarty.” Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies 17 (2): 146–56. https://doi.org/10.22215/cjers.v17i1.5059.

David R. Stroup and J. Paul Goode. 2023. “On the Outside Looking In: Ethnography and Authoritarianism.” Perspectives on Politics 21 (4): 1162–77. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592722004182.

Paul Goode. 2023. Spinning Prigozhin: How Russian Television Managed the Wagner Mutiny. No. 5. The Russia Program at GW Online Papers. George Washington University. https://therussiaprogram.org/onlinepaper_5.

Paul Goode. 2023. “How Russian Television Normalizes the War.” Riddle Russia, July 14. https://ridl.io/how-russian-television-normalizes-the-war/.

Paul Goode. 2022. How Russian Television Prepared the Public for War. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 761. Washington, D.C. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/how-russian-television-prepared-the-public-for-war/.

J. Paul Goode, David R. Stroup, and Elizaveta Gaufman. 2022. “Everyday Nationalism in Unsettled Times: In Search of Normality during Pandemic.” Nationalities Papers 50 (1): 61–85. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2020.40.

Laruelle, Marlene, Mikhail Alexseev, Cynthia Buckley, et al. 2021. “Pandemic Politics in Eurasia: Roadmap for a New Research Subfield.” Problems of Post-Communism 68 (1): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2020.1812404.

J. Paul Goode. 2021. “Patriotic Legitimation and Everyday Patriotism in Russia’s Constitutional Reform.” Russian Politics. Russian Politics 6 (1): 112–29. https://doi.org/10.30965/24518921-00601007.

J. Paul Goode. 2021. “Becoming Banal: Incentivizing and Monopolizing the Nation in Post-Soviet Russia.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 44 (4): 679–97. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1749687.

J. Paul Goode. 2021. “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Nationalism.” Nations and Nationalism 27 (2): 363–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12684.

J. Paul Goode. 2020. Russia and Digital Surveillance in the Wake of COVID-19. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 650. Washington, D.C. http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/russia-and-digital-surveillance-wake-covid-19.

J. Paul Goode. 2020. “Patriotism without Patriots? Perm΄-36 and Patriotic Legitimation in Russia.” Slavic Review 79 (2): 390–411. https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2020.89.

J. Paul Goode. 2020. “Guest Editor’s Introduction: ‘Everyday Nationalism in World Politics: Agents, Contexts, and Scale.’” Nationalities Papers 48 (6): 974–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2020.73.

J. Paul Goode. 2019. “Russia’s Ministry of Ambivalence: The Failure of Civic Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Russia.” Post-Soviet Affairs 35 (2): 140–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1547040.