Prof. Dr. Gwendolyn Sasse

Lead PrincipaI Investigator

• B5: The Impact of War on Attitudes, Identities and Institutions

Gwendolyn Sasse is Academic Director of ZOiS and Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism at the Department of Social Sciences of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Her academic career began with the study of history, Slavonic studies and political science at the University of Hamburg and led her to an MSc and PhD in political science at the London School of Economics. After that, she took up a post as Assistant Professor at the Central European University, and then as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics. In 2013, she became Professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and at the Oxford School for Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford . She maintains her connection with Oxford as a Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College and is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the think tank Carnegie Europe.

  Curriculum Vitae (last updated: 15/04/21)

• Post-communist transition processes (with a particular focus on Ukraine)
• Comparative democratisation and authoritarianism
• War and ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe
• Migration from and within Eastern Europe
• Protest dynamics
• EU eastward enlargement/Eastern Partnership

Sasse, Gwendolyn. Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine. München: C.H. Beck, 2022.

Sasse, Gwendolyn. The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007 

Sasse, Gwendolyn; Onuch, Olga; Michiels, Sébastien. Flowers, Tractors, & Telegram: Who are the Protesters in Belarus?: A Survey Based Assessment of Anti-Lukashenka Protest Participants. In: Nationalities Papers, 51 (2023), 2, pp. 1-26.