Gwendolyn Sasse

Gwendolyn Sasse (born 21 February 1972 in Glinde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is 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. Since 1 October 2016 Sasse has been the director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin.

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).