Nadya Nedelsky

Nadya Nedelsky received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2001. Her primary interests include human and minority rights, nationalism, ethnicity, transitional justice, and memory politics, with an area focus in Central and Eastern Europe. She is author of Defining the Sovereign Community: National Identity, Individual Rights, and Minority Membership in the Czech and Slovak Republics (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), part of the Penn Press series on Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Citizenship. With Lavinia Stan, she co-edited Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and both editions of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2013; 2nd ed., 2023). She has published chapters in edited volumes on transitional justice and articles in the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Human Rights Quarterly, Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, and Theory and Society. In 2015, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin, Germany.

BA: magna cum laude, Augustana College (SD), 1992
MA: University of Toronto, 1994
PhD: University of Toronto, 2001

View syllabi for courses taught by Professor Nedelsky:
INTL 113 – Introduction to International Studies: Border-Crossing in the Age of Globalization
INTL 245 – Introduction to International Human Rights
INTL 285 – Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
INTL 317, Writers and Power: The European “East” in the 20th Century
INTL 352 – Transitional Justice
INTL 485 – Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred