Biography

Christina Zuber is Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre and Professor of German Politics at the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Konstanz. Her background is in comparative politics and her main research areas are party politics, nationalism studies, and citizenship and integration policy.

Before joining the University of Konstanz, Zuber was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bremen and at Pompeu Fabra University, and taught at the Universities of Zurich and Lucerne.

Her current research investigates nationalist mobilisation in contemporary and historical European democracies and explores ways to integrate insights about the relevance of social identities for political behaviour into standard models of party competition.

Fields of expertise

• Global citizenship