Dr. Delgerjargal Uvsh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, with courtesy appointments to the Department of Government and LBJ School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin. A native of Mongolia, she conducts research and teaches on when and how positive changes in state-business relations, political regimes, and environmental and economic policies happen in post-Soviet countries. Her current book project, Reversal of the Resource Curse? Negative Revenue Shocks and Economic Development in Russia and Beyond, examines how resource-rich countries deal with negative revenue shocks (declines in their natural resource revenues) and when these shocks lead to improvements in state-business relations in Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia. In other work, she studies the dynamics of democratic transition and consolidation in Mongolia. Delgerjargal received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. |