I'm a professor of politics and an author of literary non-fiction. 

I’m based at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where I teach and conduct research on Eastern European politics, minorities, nationalism, democracy, and restorative justice. 

A lot of my work is rooted in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I’ve worked on social movement formation around the plight of the Roma and wrote about the perils of democratization and the politics of reconciliation in fractured societies. I'm interested in the study of the (political and everyday) understandings of the categories “victim” and “offender”, and I examine the ways in which restorative practices might help to strengthen democracy. 

Current work.

Published papers are listed here. And here you can find more information about my books and other writing projects. Here you can find some notes and drafts of some of the things I'm currently working on.