Anna Maria Grzymala-Busse is an American political scientist. She is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the department of political science at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of The Europe Center at Stanford University. Grzymala-Busse is known for her research on state development and transformation, religion and politics, political parties, informal political institutions, and post-communist politics. Previously, she was the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan.
Grzymala-Busse received a doctorate in government from Harvard University in 2000. Grzymala attended Princeton University (AB, Public and International Affairs, 1992) and Cambridge University (M.Phil., 1993).
In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Books in order of publication:
Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe – 1998
Rebuilding Leviathan: Party Competition and State Exploitation in Post-Communist Democracies – 2007
Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy- 2015
Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State – 2023
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