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Zsuzsa Csergo
csergo[at]post.queensu.ca
Dr. Csergo is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University of Canada. After undergraduate studies in Hungarian and Latin Literatures and Linguistics at the "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj, Romania, Csergo received her Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the George Washington University in 2000. 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.
Her research focuses on nationalism in post-Cold War Europe, the politics of language rights, and comparative kin-state and diaspora politics. She is the author of Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia (Cornell University Press, 2007). Her other publications have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, East European Politics and Societies, Nations and Nationalism, Central European Political Science Review, Regio, as well as edited volumes. She is currently working on a book project about changing strategies of "national interest" in the enlarging European Union.
Dr. Csergo has held a number of prestigious fellowships and awards, including: the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy; 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/Social Science Research Council, and the George Hoffman Foundation. Since 2007, she serves as vice president of ASN and book review editor of Nationalities Papers.