Dr. Kate Flynn

Kate is a Senior Lecturer in politics at the University of the West of England (UWE), and a specialist in the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, contested heritage and democracy/democratization in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union and South Africa. She is on the editorial board for the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, and is working towards accreditation by the US Institute for Peace in conflict resolution under the auspices of the OSCE's REACT program (American division). She returned to the United Kingdom in September 2003, after a two year sabbatical in Johannesburg, where she conducted collaborative research on public history and identity in post-1994 South Africa. After studying for a double BA in English Literature and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and DPhil in politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford, she worked for a year in Israel and two years in Ukraine in the first half of the 1990's before taking up her post at UWE.