CURRENT POSITION

Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Coordinator of research at LINES (Leuven International and European Studies)

RESEARCH KEYWORDS

Political and social developments in Central and Eastern Europe, minorities, nationalism, democratization, Roma and political mobilization, memory and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, migration in Central Europe.

EDUCATION

• 2002, PhD in the Social Sciences
• 1996, Polish language and culture
• 1995, MA Cultural Studies
• 1994, MA East European Studies and Slavic Languages

AWARDS and NOMINATIONS

EDITORIAL and ADVISORY POSITIONS

• Ex. Over een land dat zoek is (Prijs Letterkunde Proza 2016 van de Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Longlist AKO Literatuurprijs, 2014, Longlist Gouden Boekenuil, 2015, Shortlist E. du Perronprijs, 2014, Shortlist Bob den Uyl Prijs, 2015)
• Prize of the Research Council of the KU Leuven for the Humanities, 2005

GRANTS and SCHOLARSHIPS

• 2007, Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
• 2003, Postdoctoral Fellowship FWO
• 2002, Postdoctoral Fellowship KU Leuven
• 2000, Researcher in Residence at the OSCE secreteriat
• 1998, Research Fellowship FWO

• Member of the ASN convention program committee and board of directors
• Member of The New Metropolitan, a web journal on new cultures of urban citizens
• Member of the editorial board of Karakter,  a Dutch-language journal with essays about all aspects of science (2010-2016)
• Member of the editoral board of DW B literary journal
• Member of the Board of PEN-Vlaanderen, the Flemish branch of PEN International (2012-2016)
• Member of the editoral board of the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
• Member of the Academic Steering Committee of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies
• Member of the editoral advisory board of Interaction: the Journal of Solution Focus in Organisations
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Network on Romani Studies (Council of Europe/European Union) (2013-2015)
• Coordinator of the Brussels Poetry Collective at the International Literature House Passa Porta (2008-2014)