The Department of Political Studies Presents the Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies Inaugural Lecture

Zsuzsa Csergő - Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies, Queen's Department of Political Studies 

Between Protection and Control: The Politics of Kin-State Activism in Central and Eastern Europe

Thursday, March 6, 2025 

2:30-4:00 PM

Robert Sutherland Hall | Room 202

Light refreshments served

Biography: 

Zsuzsa Csergő is The Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Nationalism and Democracy Studies in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University. She specializes in the study of nationalism and contemporary challenges to democracy, with particular expertise on Central and Eastern Europe. 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. 

Dr. Csergő'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, Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Politics and Societies, and other venues.