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Eric Shiraev, Ph.D.
Books, Research, and Development

Current Topics

Pictured:  with Martijn Icks and Jennifer Keohane at the Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics conference,  University of Vienna.

History as a Battleground of Memory:
Who gets immortalized, who gets erased, and how reputations are rewritten across time

The Anatomy of Character Attacks:
How gender shapes who is targeted—and how attacks unfold

Reputation Under Fire:
Studying and Designing effective defenses against character assassination

Teflon Characters:
Why some reputations emerge unscathed—even stronger—after repeated attacks

Psychological Weak Points:
Individual traits and situational vulnerabilities that make people easier targets

Leaders in the Spotlight:
Character attacks on political leaders as a contemporary tool of psychological warfare

Context Matters:
How character attacks operate similarly and differently across cultures, eras, and political systems


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Conference at GMU, 2019

• Organized by CARP (Serge Samoilenko, conference chair)
• Hosted more than 60 participants and guests from 12 countries
• Facilitated several research publications including the Handbook (2020)

Conference in Amsterdam, 2019

• Organized and hosted by Martijn Icks and Edwina Hagen.
• Gathered scholars from fourteen countries.
• Facilitated a forthcoming research publication as a Series (Amsterdam University Press)
• Gave an impulse to new research collaboration

Conference in Vienna, 2020

• Sponsored by the University of Vienna
• Chaired by Dr. Nadja Gernalzick
• Gathered scholars from twelve countries
• Facilitated an academic publication (an edited volume). See our announcements.

5th CARP Conference, 2025
MARCH, Arlington, VA, USA

Organized by Serge Samoilenko, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks an Eric Shiraev. DETAILS 
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