Professor Gwendolyn Sasse

About

Gwendolyn Sasse is Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe. She is currently the Director of the newly founded Centre for East European Research and International Studies in Berlin (ZOiS in German). Her research interests include post-communist transitions (with a particular focus on Ukraine), the comparative study of democracy and authoritarianism, ethnic conflict, and migration. Her current research at ZOiS concentrates on original survey data related to the war in Ukraine. She has just completed a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on ‘Political Remittances: The Political Impacts of Migration’. The first results of this project have been published in Comparative Political Studies and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Her most recent monograph The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Harvard University Press 2007; paperback 2014) won the Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies.