Lincoln Mitchell is an Associate at Columbia University's Harriman Institute. From 2006-2009, he was the Arnold A. Saltzman Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics at Columbia University. Before joining Columbia’s faculty, Lincoln was a practitioner of political development and continues to work in that field now. In addition to serving as Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Georgia from 2002-2004, Lincoln has worked on political development issues in the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Lincoln also worked for years as a political consultant in New York City advising and managing domestic political campaigns.
Dr. Mitchell’s current research includes work on democratic transitions in the former Soviet Union, the role of democracy promotion in American foreign policy and on public opinion in the Muslim World. His book Uncertain Democracy: US Foreign Policy and Georgia’s Rose Revolution was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. He has also written articles on these topics in The National Interest, Orbis, The Moscow Times, the Washington Quarterly, The American Interest, Survival, The New York Daily News and Current History as well as for numerous online publications including the online sections of The Washington Post and the New York Times and Transitions Online.
Lincoln has been quoted extensively in most major American, Georgian and Russian newspapers and appeared on numerous television and radio programs discussing the conflict between Georgia and Russia in the US including All Things Considered, Lou Dobbs, the Jim Lehrer Newshour, ABC Nightline, the Diane Rehm Show, The BBC as well as in Russian and Georgian television. Lincoln is also a frequent blogger on The Huffington Post where he writes primarily about domestic politics in the US as well as The Faster Times where he writes about foreign policy and baseball. He is currently working on a book about the Color Revolutions in the former Soviet Union.
Lincoln earned his Ph.D from Columbia University’s department of political science in 1996.