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Nadya Nedelsky serves as a Professor of International Studies at Macalester College, holding her academic office in Carnegie Hall, Room 409. She teaches core courses including Introduction to International Human Rights, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, and Transitional Justice, with contact available via telephone at 651-696-6479 or email at nedelsky@macalester.edu.
Her educational qualifications are as follows:
- BA: magna cum laude, Augustana College (SD), 1992
- MA: University of Toronto, 1994
- PhD: University of Toronto, 2001
Professor Nedelsky's research centers on the intersection of international human rights frameworks with ethnic nationalism and civic identity formation in post-communist societies. Her work critically examines how states negotiate majority national identity while protecting minority rights, with specialized focus on Czech and Slovak political development after 1989. This scholarship extends to broader themes of democratization processes, citizenship models, and the institutionalization of transitional justice mechanisms across Central and Eastern Europe.
Her major publications demonstrate a sustained analytical trajectory through three key works: the monograph Defining the Sovereign Community (2009) establishes foundational arguments about national identity construction, while the co-edited Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice (2013) and Post-Communist Transitional Justice (2015) expand this framework to examine practical justice mechanisms. Collectively, these works reveal consistent engagement with how post-authoritarian societies reconcile historical injustices while building inclusive political communities, particularly through legal and constitutional innovations in Central European contexts.
