Christina Zuber is Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI’s Robert Schuman Centre of Advanced Studies and Professor of German Politics at the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Konstanz. Before joining the University of Konstanz, she 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 main research areas are democratic theory and party politics, nationalism studies, and citizenship and integration policy. 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.