I’m a professor of politics 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.

​I'm the author of several books of literary non-fiction.​ 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. 

Current work.

You can find a list of my published papers here. Information on my books and other writing projects is available here.