Lynn M. Tesser has spent over four years teaching and researching in Central Europe, the Balkans, and Cyprus. Tesser has held academic affiliations in the U.S., Germany, Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, and Cyprus, and received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, Social Science Research Council, MacArthur and Mellon Foundations, among others. Her work on nationalism, EU expansion, and forced migration has been published in
East European Politics and Societies,
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and
Geopolitics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, U.S.