Associate Professor, Political Science

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

Ethnic conflict; postcommunist transitions. Author of National Conflict in Czechoslovakia.

Biography

Ph.D., Harvard University. She is an executive committee member of the Russian and East European Center. Her major research interests are former Soviet/East European domestic and international politics. Currently researching problems of nationalism, and postcommunist transitions. She is the author of National Conflict in Czechoslovakia (Princeton University Press, 1988). She teaches courses on government and politics of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Link(s)

http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/people/profile.asp?leffc

Contact Information

Office

401 Lincoln Hall

Mailing Address

Political Science
361 Lincoln Hall
MC-452

Phone

(217) 244-2270

Fax

(217) 244-5712

Email

leffc[AT]uiuc[DOT]edu