Susanne Wengle

Biography & Research 

Susanne Wengle is the Nancy R. Dreux Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a concurrent associate professor of political science in the Keough School of Global Affairs. She is a faculty fellow of the Keough School's Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Nanovic Institute for European Studies.

Wengle’s research focuses on the politics of markets regulations. Wengle's 2015 book book Post-Soviet Power: State-led Development and Russia’s Marketization (Cambridge University Press) examines the political economy of newly created electricity markets in Russia. Wengle also has conducted research on welfare reforms and the politics of expertise in post-Soviet Russia. She currently is studying agriculture and food production in Russia and the United States. Wengle’s articles have appeared in Governance & Regulation, Studies in Comparative International Development, Economy and Society, Europe-Asia Studies, the Chicago Policy Review and the Russian Analytical Digest. She also has contributed to the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.

Wengle holds a PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. Before coming to Notre Dame, she conducted research and taught at the University of Chicago.

Recent Work

• "Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History ofRussian Agriculture and Food" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)

Courses

• International Political Economy (elective for master of global affairs)

In the Media

• The Kakhovka Dam Collapse Is an Ecological Disaster (Wired)
• Ukrainian farms feed Europe and China. Russia wants to end that. (The Washington Post)
• Ordinary Russians were already worried about rising food prices. Then came war and sanctions. (The Washington Post, subscription required)
• From sunflower oil to titanium, how the world will feel the costs of the Ukraine conflict (The Washington Post)