| Gwendolyn Sasse | |
| Birth Date: | 21 February 1972 |
| Birth Place: | Glinde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
| Workplaces: | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| Alma Mater: | University of Hamburg, London School of Economics |
| Main Interests: | Comparative politics |
| Major Works: | The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (2007) |
| Awards: | Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies |
Gwendolyn Sasse (born 21 February 1972 in Glinde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) 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.[1] Since 1 October 2016 Sasse has been the director of the (ZOiS) in Berlin.[2]
Sasse won the Alexander Nove Prize of the British Association for Slavonic & East European Studies for her book The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (2007).