Gwendolyn Sasse

Gwendolyn Sasse
in 2022 at re:publica Berlin
Born (1972-02-21) February 21, 1972
AwardsAlexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Hamburg,
London School of Economics
Academic work
InstitutionsNuffield College, University of Oxford
Main interestsComparative politics
Notable worksThe Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (2007)

Gwendolyn Sasse (born 21 February 1972 in Glinde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a German political scientist and Einstein Professor for Comparative Research on Democracy and Authoritarianism at Humboldt-Universität of Berlin. She is also the director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin.

Previously, Sasse was professor of comparative politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Sasse has research interests in post-communist transitions; comparative democratisation; ethnic conflicts; international conditionality; national minorities; the political behaviour of migrants; diaspora politics; and the political in contemporary art.