Oksan Bayulgen

Department Head and Professor

University of Connecticut - Department of Political Science

Dr. Bayulgen specializes on the political economy of energy transitions, environmental politics, democratization and development. She has conducted extensive field work in Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Norway, and Turkey with the help of numerous external and university grants. She teaches a range of comparative politics courses, including introduction to comparative politics, politics of Russia and the former Soviet Union, comparative democratization, politics of oil, introduction to non-western politics and sustainable energy.