Gwendolyn Sasse

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 (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.

Awards Sasse won the Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies for her book The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (2007).

Selected publications