Education
Harvard University; Duke University.
Harvard University; Duke University.
Beissinger received his bachelor"s degree magna cum laude from Duke University in 1976 and his doctorate in political science from Harvard in 1982. He taught at Harvard from 1982 until 1987, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from 1988 until 2006 and was chair of their Political Science Department from 2001 to 2004. Since 2006 he has taught at Princeton University as a full professor
He subsequently became director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
In 2007 he was president of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (AAASS).
He is also the author of the book Scientific Management, Socialist Discipline, and Soviet Power.