Dr. Korobkov is Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University. He previously worked as Research Fellow at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and taught at the University of Alabama. He also previously served as Program Chair of the Post Communist States in International Relations section of the International Studies Association and currently is the section’s President. His academic interests include the issues of post-Communist transition, state and nation-building, nationalism, ethnic conflict, international migration, and brain drain. Dr. Korobkov is the recipient of numerous grants and author of four monographs and more than sixty articles and book chapters. He graduated from Moscow State University and holds a Ph. D. in Economics from the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Alabama.