Gwendolyn Sasse
Gwendolyn Sasse | |
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in 2022 at re:publica Berlin | |
| Born | February 21, 1972 Glinde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| Awards | Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg, London School of Economics |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| Main interests | Comparative politics |
| Notable works | The 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.