Edward Lemon is the President of the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs and Research Assistant Professor at The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, Washington D.C. Teaching Site. He is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center and previously served as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Political Science Department. He received his doctorate in Politics and International Relations from the University of Exeter in 2016. His research focuses on authoritarianism and security in Central Asia, with over three years of fieldwork across Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. He edited Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia (Routledge, 2018) and has published in Democratization, Central Asian Affairs, Caucasus Survey, Journal of Democracy, and The RUSI Journal.