Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Faculty Member, Faculty of Social Sciences
K.U. Leuven, Faculty of Social Sciences
About
I'm a professor of Political Science at the University of Leuven and Research Fellow of the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). I graduated from the University of Leuven and studied and conducted research in Central and Eastern Europe (mainly in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). In 2007 and 2008, I was a visiting scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. In Leuven, I teach courses on nationalism, comparative politics, and current affairs in Central and Eastern Europe. My research interests are in ethnic mobilization, nationalism, Europeanization, the enlargement of the EU, and minority politics in Europe. I'm also interested in the connection between language, literature and politics. In 2006, Berghahn Books published my first book, The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe (New York, Oxford, 2006). My current book project investigates resurgent nationalism and domestic political competition in the new EU member states in Central Europe. My work has appeared in several academic journals, including East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-communist Studies, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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