Stanislav Budnitsky, CPD's 2016 Dissertation Grant Award recipient, is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Russian and East European Institute at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. His research focuses on the nexus of culture, global communication, and digital technologies.  

In 2018-20, Budnitsky was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Oxford University Media Policy Summer Institute, and Stanford University U.S.-Russia Forum, among others. Budnitsky’s academic writings have appeared in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Internet Policy Review, and an edited collection, The Net and the Nation-State, from Cambridge University Press.
   
Budnitsky received his PhD in Communication from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He holds Master’s degrees in Nationalism Studies from Budapest’s Central European University and in Journalism from Moscow’s Higher School of Economics. Prior to graduate studies, Stanislav was a Moscow-based media writer and producer.