Harald Wydra is a Fellow of St Catharine’s College. After studies of history and political science at the Universities of Regensburg and Salamanca, he took a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Before coming to Cambridge in 2003 he taught Political Science at the University of Regensburg. He held visiting fellowships at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Australian National University in Canberra. He is a founding editor of the academic journal International Political Anthropology. His most recent books are Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (co-editor) (Routledge, 2007). He has research interests in European Politics, comparative democratisation, political anthropology, and interpretive methods in the social sciences.
