Jennie Schulze, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Political Science Department

Office:  507 College Hall
Telephone:  412-396-6483
schulzej@duq.edu

Education

Boston College, B.A., 2001 (Political Science, History; Suma cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa);

The George Washington University, Ph.D., August 2009 (Political Science)

Research, Publications, And Service

Dr. Schulze’s research focuses on international norms, democratization in Eastern Europe, minority rights, minority integration, interethnic relations, and kin-state activism. Her scholarly articles have appeared in Nationalities Papers and she has contributed a chapter on interethnic relations to an edited volume Segregation, Disparity, and Reactivity: The Russian Second Generation in Two Estonian Cities (eds. Raivo Vetik and Jelena Helemäe) Amsterdam University Press. She is currently writing a book on the influence of European institutions and Russia’s activism on minority rights in Estonia and Latvia. She is also working on a project about the meaning of democracy in the Baltic States.

Organizations that have supported Dr. Schulze’s research include EU Marie Curie (The Integration of the European Second Generation Project), Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (The George Washington University), the Association for Women in Science, the European Union Studies Association, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and the American Consortium on EU Studies.

Statement

Dr. Schulze's research interest include international norms, democratization in Eastern Europe, EU enlargement, minority rights, minority integration, interethnic relations, nationalism, and kin-state activism.  She teaches courses on these topics as well as introductory courses international relations and comparative politics.  Dr. Schulze has taught international relations at Tallinn University and at Tallinn Technical University in Estonia and has received research support from EU Marie Curie (The Integration of the European Second Generation Project), Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (The George Washington University), the Association for Women in Science, the European Union Studies Association, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies, and the American Consortium on EU Studies.