Joan DeBardeleben

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Joan DeBardeleben is a scholar of Russian and European politics and professor of political science at Carleton University in Canada. She graduated from University of Wisconsin; she is a Chancellor Professor and a Jean Monet Scholar. Her work on Russia deals mostly with regional politics, patronage at the regional level and the impact of EU enlargement.^[1]

Debardeleben is the daughter of Lionel Arthur DeBardeleben, a Second World War veteran,^[2] and Helen Thomas DeBardeleben, who had been a social worker for the State of Wisconsin until her retirement.^[3]