Lynn M. Tesser
Program Officer, Grants & Fellowships Program
European Union expansion in Central and Eastern Europe | Democratization | Civil Society | Human Rights
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Lynn Tesser joined USIP as a program officer in the Jennings Randolph Fellowship program in 2006. She has taught courses on East European politics at American University and at Loyola University in Chicago. In 2004, she was a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars examining the impact of key international institutions such as the European Union, Council of Europe, and OSCE on inter-ethnic relations in Latvia and Estonia.
Tesser is particularly interested in the question of how the European integration process affects areas recently subject to ethnic cleansing, particularly in East-Central Europe. She completed a dissertation entitled "Europeanization and Prospects for Nationalism in East-Central Europe" in 2003. She has been awarded research grants from the Fulbright Commission, Social Science Research Council, MacArthur and Mellon Foundations, among others.
She is a graduate of Reed College and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.
Publications:
- Prospects for a Successful Peace Process in Nepal: Internal and International Perspectives
USIPeace Briefing, April 2007
- "East-Central Europe's New Security Concern: Foreign Land Ownership," Communist and Post-Communist Studies (2004).
- "The Geopolitics of Tolerance: Minority Rights Under EU Expansion in East-Central Europe," East European Politics and Societies (2003).
- "European Integration and the Legacy of the Post-Second World War German Expulsions in East-Central Europe," Geopolitics (1999).
