Gwendolyn Sasse 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 Gwendolyn Sasse has been the Director of the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin.