Juris Pupcenoks is an associate professor of political science at Marist College in New York, an associate fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW in Germany, and a senior research fellow at Center for Geopolitical Studies in Latvia. He is an alumnus of the Carnegie Council's Carnegie New Leaders program.
At Marist, Pupcenoks was the recipient of the Student Government Association’s School of Liberal Arts Faculty Member of the Year Award (2020), and Faculty Club Advisor of the Year Award (2023). He teaches courses on international relations and international law (including Model United Nations), European politics, foreign policy, and global security politics. He is fluent in Latvian and Russian, knows some French, and is currently learning Mandarin Chinese.
Pupcenoks has held various leadership positions with the International Studies Association (ISA), including serving as the chair of the Programs Committee of the ISA’s Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Studies Section. Previously, he was a fellow at the Academy of International Affairs NRW, fellow at Bard College, visiting scholar at the University of Latvia, and researcher at the Lorenzo de' Medici Institute (Florence, Italy). His recent media appearances include Globuss TV Show (Latvia), and Kingston Happenings and Spectrum TV News in New York.
He is the author of 30 academic publications including the monograph Western Muslims and Conflicts Abroad, and articles in International Interactions, Nationalities Papers, The International Journal of Press/Politics, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, among others. His research and publications deal with Russian diplomatic communication and strategic narratives, military intervention, disinformation, threat perception and securitization, diasporas and ethnic politics, and Russian-speakers in the post-Soviet space.