Professional Affiliation

Professor of Political Science, University of British Columbia

Expert Bio

Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include Russian civic activism and legal mobilization in the areas of gender and human rights, in both domestic and transnational politics. Her 2019 book Courting Gender Justice: Russia, Turkey, and the European Court of Human Rights (Oxford UP), co-authored with Valerie Sperling and Melike Sayoglu, examines gender discrimination cases as well as LGBTQ+ discrimination cases from Russia and Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights. Her other books include Bringing Global Governance Home: NGO Mediation in the BRICS States (Oxford UP, 2021, co-authored with Laura A. Henry); Funding Civil Society: Foreign Assistance and NGO Development in Russia (Stanford UP, 2006), and Russian Civil Society: A Critical Assessment (ME Sharpe, 2005, co-edited with Laura A. Henry and Alfred B. Evans, Jr.). Article publications appear in journals including International Organization, Global Environmental Politics, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, International Journal of Human Rights, and Human Rights Quarterly.