Ivan Gomza

Political scientist

Kyiv

Head of the Department of Public Governance at Kyiv School of Economics. Trained as a political scientist, he received his Ph.D. in 2012 after studying at the Joint Franco-Ukrainian PhD Program at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Later, Dr. Gomza was a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; in 2013) and the Fulbright Faculty Development Program fellow (in 2016–2017).

Dr. Gomza’s scholarly interests comprise democratization, authoritarian regimes, contentious politics, and good governance. His articles have been published in international academic journals (e.g. Communist and Post-Communist Studies and Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity). He also authored two books, and his most recent title, The Decadence Republic: Ideology of French Integral Nationalism under the Third Republic, was published in 2021 by Krytyka Press.