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• PhD, Political Science, Indiana University
• MIS, Information Science, Indiana University
• BA, International Relations and Geography, San Francisco State University

• post-Soviet politics, including comparative authoritarianism, intra-regime dynamics, and public opinion
• scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL), including liberatory pedagogies, prison education, and organizational learning

Junisbai, Barbara. 2025. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

Barbara Junisbai. 2025. "Transformative Disruption: Faculty Perspectives on Teaching in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange," Professing Education, 23 (1): 68-87. With Reggie Bullock (PZ, class of 22) and Brian Charest.

Barbara Junisbai. 2022. “,” PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 781. With Dinissa Duvanova.

Barbara Junisbai. 2020. “Are Youth Different?  The Nazarbayev Generation and Public Opinion in Kazakhstan.” Problems of Postcommunism, 67 (3): 251-263. With Azamat Junisbai.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2016. “A Pragmatic and Flexible Approach to Information Literacy: Findings from a Three-Year Study of Faculty-Librarian Collaboration.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 42 (5): 604-611. With Sara Lowe,and Natalie Tagge.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2014. “The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of a ‘Learning-Centered’ Approach to Creative Social Inquiry.” Journal of Political Science Education 10 (3): 331-351.

Junisbai, Barbara. 2012. “Improbable but Potentially Pivotal Oppositions: Privatization, Capitalists, and Political Contestation in the Post-Soviet Autocracies.” Perspectives on Politics 10 (4): 891-916.

Blaise Challenge Grant, "The Development and Validation of a Family-Building Friendly Climate Scale," Claremont Graduate University (with M. Gloria González-Morales, Alyssa Birnbaum, and Jennifer Feitosa)

, Notre Dame Insitute for Ethics and the Common Good, 2024-2025

Student Marshal, elected by �������� seniors to represent the graduating classes of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024

Keynote speaker, After Grad: Teaching Careers Week, , 2022

Chair,  Central Eurasian Studies Society Communications Committee, 2022-2023

Board member, , 2021-2023 (elected)

Course Development Grant, , 2023-2024 (with Tessa Hicks-Peterson, Stephanie Liu-Rojas, Tricia Morgan, and Kathy Yep)

Faculty Co-Director,  (CTL), The Claremont Colleges, 2021-2024

Inaugural Faculty Curator, The Work of Yusef Pierce, �������� Art Galleries, 2021

External reviewer, , since 2021

Member, Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (), since 2017