Paula Ganga is an assistant professor of political economy at Duke Kunshan University as well as a visiting fellow with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University. She completed her Ph.D. in Government at Georgetown University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, a postdoctoral fellow with the Skalny Center for Polish and Central Eastern European Studies and a George F. Kennan short-term scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Her research focuses on the political determinants of switches between privatization and nationalization in Eastern Europe and beyond. This research bears directly on how we view the link between democracy and market capitalism, the economic consequences of populism, rising illiberalism in recent political transitions, and state capitalism. She is currently working on a book manuscript on populism and economic nationalism in Eastern Europe.