Polina Vlasenko joined the AIER research staff as a Research Fellow in December 2008, after being a Visiting Research Fellow. From 2005 to 2008, Polina was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Manchester College in Indiana. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Professor at the Economic Education and Research Consortium's Program in Economics (currently Kyiv School of Economics) in Kyiv, Ukraine. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Maryland, College Park.