Jessica Pisano is an academic and writer, and is professor of politics at the New School for Social Research. She is a 2026 Carnegie Fellow, an affiliate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, was a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Political Science, and has been an invited professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is also a trustee of the Kharkiv Karazin University Foundation in Ukraine. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Journal of Democracy and Politico.