Zsuzsa Csergo M.A., Ph.D. (George Washington)
Associate Professor

Zsuzsa Csergo specializes in the study of nationalism in contemporary European politics, with particular focus on post-communist Central and Eastern Europe.  She is currently working on a comparative project about minority integration in the enlarged European Union.  Her book about majority-minority conflict over language use in Romania and Slovakia was published by Cornell University Press in 2007.  Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, Nations and Nationalism, East European Politics and Societies, and other journals.  She has received a number of awards and fellowships, including the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (September-December 2006), the 2005 Sherman Emerging Scholar Award from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and research grants from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 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 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Professor Csergo obtained her undergraduate education at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, and her graduate training at the George Washington University in Washington, DC (PhD in Political Science and MA in Russian and East European Studies).  Before joining the Queen’s faculty, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of the Women’s Leadership Program in U.S. and International Politics at the George Washington University.  She was also a regular lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute.  Currently, she serves as Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities and Book Review Editor of Nationalities Papers.

She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative politics, nationalism, democratization, and Central and East European politics.

Selected publications