I am a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007). I write broadly about international relations theory, memory politics, cultural heritage, state identity, and the politics of the Western Balkans.

My latest book, The Art of Status: Looted Treasures and the Global Politics of Restitution was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. The book examines the relationship between looted art and international status, by focusing on the debates about acquisition and restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, Benin Bronzes, and a never before written about collection of Nazi-looted art housed in the National Museum of Serbia.

I am also the author of Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019), which won the 2020 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, the 2020 American Political Science Association European Politics and Society Book Prize, the 2020 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Prize for the Best Book in International History and Politics (American Political Science Association) and Honorable mention, 2020 Barbara Heldt Prize for Best Book by a woman in any area of Slavic/East European/Eurasian Studies. My first book was Hijacked Justice: Dealing with the Past in the Balkans (Cornell University Press, 2009).

My research has appeared in a number of academic and public policy journals, including International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Foreign Policy Analysis, and many others. I am a recipient of a number of research grants, including from the National Science Foundation and USAID. I am also a frequent commentator on Holocaust revisionism, war crimes and the politics of the Balkans for CNN, BBC, and other international outlets.