Cole J. Harvey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. He received his PhD in political science from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in 2019, and was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2019-2020. His work on election manipulation, election forensics, authoritarian politics, and related topics has been published in Electoral Studies, Democratization, Europe-Asia Studies, and Government and Opposition. Prior to graduate study, he was a Herbert Scoville Fellow and policy researcher in Washington DC, with a focus on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation issues.