We are delighted to announce that the four speakers for next year’s conference on nationalism and borders are the amazing lineup of Erin Jenne, Pieter Judson, Michael Mann, and Maya Tudor.
Erin Jenne
Erin Jenne is professor and chair of the International Relations Department at Central European University, and specialises in ethnic conflict, minority politics, nationalism, populism, foreign policy analysis, and qualitative and mixed methods.
Among her many accolades are a MacArthur fellowship at Stanford, a Belfer fellowship at Harvard, and a Braudel fellowship at EUI. Her first book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007), based on her doctoral thesis, won the Mershon Center’s Edgar S. Furniss Book Award. She has published in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Comparative European Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, International Affairs, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, International Studies Review, Research and Politics, Journal of Democracy, Research & Politics, PS: Political Science & Politics, Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, and, of course, Nations and Nationalism.
Find out more about Prof. Jenne at her website.
Pieter Judson
Pieter M. Judson is professor at the European University Institute in Florence. From 2014 to 2024, he held the Chair in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History at the European University Institute. Before that he taught for 21 years at Swarthmore College as Isaac Clothier Professor of History and International Relations.
He holds a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University (1987). He has authored many articles and several prize-winning books on several aspects of the history of Habsburg Central Europe, as well as The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Harvard-Belknap, 2016), which has been translated into twelve European and Asian languages. For ten years Judson served as editor of the Austrian History Yearbook, and he is currently President of the Central European History Society of North America. He has received fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, the NEH, the American Academy in Berlin, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 2010 he received the Karl von Vogelsang state prize from the Austrian government for Guardians of the Nation. Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria (Harvard 2006).
Find out more about Prof. Judson at EUI.
Michael Mann
M
ichael Mann is distinguished research professor in sociology at UCLA. He has a BA and D.Phil. from Oxford University, and has been awarded three honorary doctorates (Hon.D.Litts.) from McGill University, Montreal, University College, Dublin, and The University of the Aegean. After graduating from Oxford he worked at Cambridge University, The University of Essex, the London School of Economics, and (from 1987), the University of California at Los Angeles. He was Visiting Research Professor at The Queens University, Belfast, during 2003-2007, and in 2004-2005 he was the Visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. In 2008 he was awarded an Honorary Professorship at Cambridge. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of both the American and British Academies.
His major publication project is the four volume The Sources of Social Power. Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to 1760, was published in 1986; Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States 1760-1914, was published in 1993; Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolutions 1890-1945, was published in 2012; and the fourth and final volume, Globalizations 1945-2012, came out in 2013. His other works include Fascists (2004) and The Dark Side of Democracy (2005).
Find out more about Prof Mann at UCLA.
Maya Tudor
Maya Tudor is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Fellow at St. Hilda’s College at the University of Oxford. Her research covers the origins of effective and democratic states with a regional focus on South Asia. Her most recent book, Varieties of Nationalism (with Harris Mylonas, 2023) received wide acclaim, as did her first book, The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan (2013).
She has published articles in Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Annual Review of Political Science, and Indian Politics and Policy. and regularly appears on the BBC and in the Guardian, as well as writing for Foreign Affairs, The Hindu, New Statesman, Washington Post, Indian Express and Journal of Democracy. Before her academic career, Maya Tudor was a Special Assistant to World Bank Chief Economist and Nobel laureate, Joseph Stiglitz.
Find out more about Prof Tudor at her website.