Monika Nalepa
Rank
Regular Faculty - Associate ProfessorTitle
Nanovic Institute Faculty Fellow, (September 2008-present), Kroc Institute Faculty Fellow (January 2009-present), Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow, (September 2009-present)
Field(s)
Comparative Politics
Education
Warsaw University, MA
Columbia University, MA, PhD
Research and Teaching Interests
Institutions of Transitional Justice, Democratic Transitions, Legislative Politics, Eastern Europe
Advising Specialties
Law School, PhD programs
Biography
Born in Warsaw, Poland Professor Nalepa taught for two years at Rice University and held a post-doc at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies prior to arriving at Notre Dame. Her publications include "Captured Commitments: An Analytic Narrative of Transitions with Transitional Justice," World Politics 62, 2 (2010); Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2010); "Lustration and the Survival of Parliamentary Parties,"Taiwan Journal of Democracy," 5, 2 (2009); "Punish All Perpetrators or Protect the Innocent? Comparing Systems of Transitional Justice," Journal of Theoretical Politics 20, 2 (2008); (coeditor) "A Special Issue on Transitional Justice," Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006), "Judging Transitional Justice: A New Criterion for Evaluating Truth Revelation Procedures," "Strategic and Normative Aspects of Transitional Justice," both in Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006). In 2011, her article "Reconciliation, Refugee Returns, and the Impact of International Criminal Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina" will be published in Nomos L: Transitional Justice (eds. Melissa S. Williams, Rosemary Nagy, and Jon Elster).
Office Hours
Tuesday 2:00pm-3:30pm and Thursdays 11:00am-12:30pmContact Information
Office: 439 Decio
Phone: (574) 631-6828
Fax: (574) 631-4405
Email: mnalepa@nd.edu
Mailing Address
Department of Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
