Zsuzsa Cserg艖
Professor | Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies
She/Her | PhD, MA聽(George Washington University)
Comparative Politics, International Relations
Political Studies
Queen's University
Research Interests
Nationalism; the politics of ethnicity; challenges to democracy; minority democratic agency; Central and East European politics; the politics of European integration
Supervisory Interests
Zsuzsa Cserg艖 would be interested in supervising graduate students in the areas of: 鈥嬧嬧嬧媙ationalism, the politics of ethnicity, minority politics, Central and East European politics, issues of European integration.
Biography
Zsuzsa Cserg艖 (PhD in Political Science, The George Washington University, 2000) is The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies in the Department of Political Studies at 黑料吃瓜资源. She specializes in the study of nationalism and contemporary challenges to democracy, with particular expertise on Central and Eastern Europe. Before joining the 黑料吃瓜资源 faculty, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the Women鈥檚 Leadership Program in U.S. and International Politics at the George Washington University. From 2013-2020, she was President of the , the largest international scholarly association in the field of nationalism and ethnicity studies. She currently serves as Director of the association鈥檚 online initiative, 鈥.鈥
Dr. Cserg艖's research contributes to the understanding of tensions between nationalism and democracy in multiethnic societies. Her articles about nationalism, majority-minority relations, kin-state politics, and minority democratic agency in the EU context have appeared in leading journals in her field, including Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, Publius, Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Global Security Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Societies, and other venues. She is the author of Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell University Press, 2007), co-editor and co-author of collaborative volumes (books and special issues) focused on Europeanization and minority political agency, Central and East European politics, and the securitization of cross-border ethnic kinship.
Dr. Cserg艖 is currently writing a book about Resilient Minorities: Political Agency in the Minority Condition, which explores the sources of minority democratic agency among majorities in majoritarian states and develops a comparative theory based on research on six linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe. She also leads the comparative Minority Institutions Database project, as well as a comparative research project entitled Major Crises and Minority Life in Majoritarian States (funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council).
Dr. Cserg艖 has received a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, including a Distinguished Alumni award from the George Washington University鈥檚 Department of Political Science in 2013, the from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy in 2006, the 2005 from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the , the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the American Council of Learned Societies and Social Science Research Council, the George Hoffman Foundation, and the . During the 2010-11 academic year, she was a guest scholar at the in Vienna, Austria. In May 2016, she was a guest scholar at the Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. From 2019-2020, she served as a at the Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz.
From January-March 2023, Cserg艖 was a visiting fellow at the in Flensburg, Germany. From January-June 2024, she is a guest scholar at the in Vienna, Austria.
Research Fellowships
Visiting Expert, , Flensburg, Germany. April-July 2023.
Visiting Fellow, at George Washington University, US. January-March 2023.
, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz. 2019-2021.
Awards
- The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies (2023)
- Distinguished Alumni award, Department of Political Science (George Washington University, 2013)
Selected Publications
(6th edition). 2025. Co-edited with Paula M. Pickering and Jennie L. Schulze. Bloomsbury Academic.
. 2018. Routledge. Co-edited with Ada Regelmann.
. 2025. Special issue in Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, co-edited with David J. Smith and Andreea Udrea.
2018. Special issue in Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics, vol. 3 no.4, co-edited with Ognen Vangelov and Bal谩zs Vizi.
. 2017. Special issue co-edited with Ada Charlotte-Regelmann. Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 64 no.5.
Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, David J. Smith, and Andreea Udrea. 2025. 鈥溾 Journal of Global Security Studies 10(1).
Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, Kristina Kallas, and Tam谩s Kiss. 2025. 鈥溾 Journal of Global Security Studies 10(1).
2019. Ethnopolitics vol. 17 no. 5: 541-545.
2017. Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 64 no.5: 291-310, co-authored with Ada-Charlotte Regelmann.
2017. Publius: The Journal of Federalism vol. 47 no.4: 491-521, co-authored with Philippe Roseberry and Stefan Wolff.
2013. Europe-Asia Studies vol. 65 no.5: 889-911.
2011. Nations and Nationalism, vol.17 no.1:85-107 , co-authored with Kevin Deegan-Krause
2008. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 14 no. 2:393-398
2004. Perspectives on Politics, vol. 2 no.1: 21-37, co-authored with James M. Goldgeier
2002. East European Politics and Societies, vol. 16 no. 1: 1-29.
Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, Paula M. Pickering, and Jennie L. Schulze. 2025. 鈥.鈥 In Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, Paula M. Pickering, and Jennie L. Schulze, eds., Central and East European Politics (6th edition). Bloomsbury Academic.
Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, and Jason Wittenberg. 2025. 鈥溾 In Cserg艖, Zsuzsa, Paula M. Pickering, and Jennie L. Schulze, eds., Central and East European Politics (6th edition). Bloomsbury Academic.
2013. In Tristan Mabry et al, eds. Divided Nations and European Integration (University of Pennsylvania Press, co-authored with James M. Goldgeier.
鈥淭he Impact of Russia鈥檚 War on Ukraine on Russophone Minorities in the Baltic States.鈥 2022. BEAR Network, April 30, 2022; co-authored with Kristina Kallas.
鈥淭he Problem of Alienated Russophone Minorities Caught between the EU and Russia.鈥 2021. BEAR Network, May 18, 2021.
A Comparative Minority Institutions Database
The Comparative Minority Institutions Database (MID) provides publicly accessible data about organizational activities of ethnic minority communities living in countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Website: /minority-institutions-database/
The Politics of Complex Diversity in Contested Cities, Principal Investigator
The project examines how ethnic newcomers assert political agency in historically divided cities; exploring how this political agency differs from that found in cities that are not historically contested.
Website:
Virtual ASN, Director
is a global online academic platform linking scholars, students, and members of the broader public interested in questions of nationalism and ethnicity with a regional focus on Europe and Eurasia. Virtual ASN brings together and fosters a worldwide community: From a Distance. Together.
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