Fellow
Hiram Mills Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University, Co-Director, the Jean Monnet Centre Montreal
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Maria Popova is an Associate Professor and Hiram Mills Chair at the Department of Political Science, McGill University, and is the Scientific Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Centre Montreal.
Her research interests include the rule of law, anticorruption, democratic resilience, and weaponization of law.
LawTransform Project:
Autocratization Dynamics
2022-2026
Current Projects:
The Russo-Ukrainian War and its impact on domestic politics in Europe
Ukraine’s Road to EU Accession: judicial and anticorruption reform
Foreign-educated reformist politicians in Eastern European democracies
Cities and democratic resilience
Recent Publications:
“Rule of Law or Rule of Politics: Understanding Varieties of Judicial Anti-corruption Campaigns,” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 22 (2026). With Kateryna Halushka and Qinggang Li.
“(Anti)Corruption and Conditionality in the Geopolitical Enlargement: Ukraine’s EU Accession In Comparative Perspective,” East European Politics 42, no. 1 (2026): 130-150.
“Liberation, Not Collapse,” Eurozine (Institute for Human Sciences IWM, Vienna), March 3, 2025. Article translated and re-published in Spanish and Lithuanian.
“Ukraine is Europe: Lessons for Europe and for Political Science,” European Political Science, (2025) 23(3). With Oxana Shevel
Website:
https://www.popovaprof.ca/