He received his B.A. from Oxford University (1990), an M.A. in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies from Harvard University (1997), and his Ph.D from Columbia University (2004). A specialist in Russian politics, Graeme's work focuses on labor, contentious politics, and hybrid and authoritarian regimes. He has contributed articles to the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Democracy, Slavic Review, Communist and Post-Communist Studies and Pro et Contra. Graeme is currently working on projects in a number of areas including looking at labor and protest in the developing world, at the interaction of structural factors and politics in political change in the post-Cold War period, and at governance in contemporary authoritarian regimes.