Nadejda Marinova
Associate Professor of Political Science
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Nadejda Marinova
Nadejda K. Marinova is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC, 2011).
Dr. Marinova joined the Department of Political Science at Wayne State University in 2012, after serving as a Dornsife College Postdoctoral Distinguished Teaching Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC). From 2012 until 2018, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University. Her research interests include diasporas and migration, Middle East politics, foreign policy analysis, and gender in international relations. Dr. Marinova has conducted research in Syria and Lebanon, where she was a research affiliate at the Lebanese Emigration Research Center at Notre Dame University-Louaize.
Dr. Marinova's book "Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country: How Host States Use Diasporas" (Oxford University Press, 2017) (see on Amazon) examines a previously unexamined phenomenon: how host states utilize diasporas to advance mutually beneficial foreign policy goals. The book advances a theoretical model to analyze when this phenomenon occurs, and it delves into the multiple avenues across which it takes place, in a variety of regimes, and across political, security, and commercial matters, proposing a classification with examples worldwide. She tests the theoretical model against multiple cases of diasporas from the U.S., Middle East and Latin America, including studies of the Lebanese diaspora in the U.S. (regarding the 2005 Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon), the Iraqi and Cuban diasporas in the US, Iraqis in Iran (in the 1980s and 1990s) and Syro-Lebanese in 1970s Brazil.
Dr. Marinova is a former fellow of the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching. In March 2017, she was honored to be selected as a recipient of the 2017 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne State University's highest teaching honor.
The classes she teaches include: PS 7995: Directed Study; PS 7711: Advanced Seminar in Comparative Politics: Migration and Diaspora; PS 5993: Writing Intensive in Political Science; PS 5740: Ethnicity; PS 4995: Senior Honors Paper; PS 3835: Middle East Conflict (course broadly focused on the politics of the Middle East and N. Africa); PS 3715: Politics of Central and Eastern Europe and PS 1010: American Government, as well as mentoring of undergraduate and graduate research.
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
- Diaspora and migration
- Middle East politics
- Comparative politics
- Foreign policy analysis
- Gender in international relations
Education
- Ph.D. in Politics and International Relations, University of Southern California, 2011
- M.S. in International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003
- B.A. in Political Science, Georgia College & State University, 2001
Awards and grants
- Faculty Professional Development Grant, August 2019
- President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Wayne State University, 2017
- Wayne State University Humanities Center Faculty Fellow, 2016
- Dornsife College Postdoctoral Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California, 2011-2012
News mentions
Selected publications
- 2022. (Co-authored). "Arab- and Muslim-American Organisations in metropolitan Detroit: resistance to the travel ban, 2017-19." Voluntary Sector Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 396-416
- Marinova, Nadejda K. 2022. "Policymakers and Diasporas in Informal Public Diplomacy." Chapter 17 in Liam Kennedy, Ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Diaspora Diplomacy. Routledge
- 2021. (Co-authored). “Diasporas and Politics.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press
- Marinova, Nadejda K. 2017. Ask What You Can Do For Your (New) Country: How Host States Use Diasporas. New York: Oxford University Press, 360 pp
- Marinova, Nadejda K. 2013. On Being Lebanese in Australia & The Lebanese Diaspora (Review). Migration Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 371-375
- Marinova, Nadejda K. and Patrick James. 2012. “The Tragedy of Human Trafficking: Competing Theories and European Evidence,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 231-253
- Marinova, Nadejda K. 2010. “Transnational Homeland Involvement of the US-based Lebanese Diaspora.” Working Paper for the Global Migration and Transnational Politics series. Center for Global Studies, George Mason University, gmtp.gmu.edu/publications/gmtpwp/gmtp_wp_15.pdf
Courses taught by Nadejda Marinova
Winter Term 2025 (future)
- PS3715 - Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe
- PS5740 - Ethnicity: The Immigrant Experience
- PS7745 - Ethnicity: The Immigrant Experience