Eugene Mazo

About Eugene Mazo

Eugene Mazo is a professor of law and political science at Duquesne University. He was born in Russia and came to the United States as a refugee with his mother and grandmother when he was five year old. His family settled in Newark, New Jersey.

Today, Eugene is a nationally-recognized scholar of election law. His books include The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (2024), The Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times (2020), Democracy by the People: Reforming Campaign Finance in America (2018), and Election Law Stories (2016). Previously, he taught at several other law schools in the United States, including George Mason, Maryland, Rutgers, Seton Hall, and Wake Forest.

Earlier in his career, Eugene was a post-doctoral scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), an affiliated scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), and a visiting researcher at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), all at Stanford University. He has been awarded grants for his research by the Social Science Research Council and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

After graduating from Columbia College, Eugene went on to receive his master's degree from Harvard University, a doctorate in politics at Oxford University, where he was both a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and a Clarendon Scholar, and his law degree from Stanford University.