Gwendolyn Sasse
Gwendolyn Sasse is the Director of ZOiS. She is also Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. Her research interests include post-communist transitions, ethnic conflict, and migration. At ZOiS she is conducting research on the effects of the war on political identities in Ukraine, local politics in Ukraine, and East European migrants in Berlin. She is also completing a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on "Political Remittances: The Political Impacts of Migration". Her book The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Harvard University Press 2007, 2014) won the Alexander Nove Prize.