Federica Prina is a Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Central and East European Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in 2014, she worked as a researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Germany. Before completing her PhD, she spent ten years as a project manager and researcher in UK-based international human rights organizations, focusing particularly on issues related to freedom of expression and information. Her academic research specializes in the rights of national minorities in the Russian Federation.
Ethnic discrimination or persecution, Journalist persecution, LGBTQ, Political persecution, Religious discrimination or persecution, Government/state actor persecution
I have written 5 reports (UK and US cases) on ethnic discrimination and religious persecution cases.
Prina, F. (2016) National Minorities in Putin’s Russia: Diversity and Assimilation (London: Routledge).
Prina, F. (2024) ‘Russia’s Minority Institutions, Ethnic Boundaries and Social-Humanitarian Work: A Case of Collective Responsibility?’, Problems of Post-Communism, 71(6), 531-543
Prina, F. (2021) 'Constructing Ethnic Diversity as a Security Threat: What it Means to Russia’s Minorities', International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 28(1), 1-35.