I am an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Department of International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, American University of Sharjah, UAE. I completed my doctorate at the University of Hong Kong in 2022. Before joining AUS, I held teaching and research positions in Hong Kong, Russia, and the United States. My research interests include comparative authoritarianism, leadership succession, communism and post-communism, and informal politics. 


I obtained my BA and MA in Oriental Studies at the Moscow State University, focusing on Chinese history and politics. Besides academic research, I worked as a Russian-Chinese interpreter for various educational and government organizations and as an editor at a leading global affairs think tank in Russia. 


Get in touch at nmukhin@aus.edu