Associate Professor in Nationalism in Europe at the London School of Economics. She is the author of two books on minority rights: National Minorities and the European Nation-State System (OUP, 1998) and Minority Rights: Between Diversity and Community (Polity, 2005) as well as numerous articles and edited book contributions. In addition to her academic research, Dr. Jackson-Preece acts as a consultant for various international and non-governmental organisations in the area of human and minority rights protection, and ethnic conflict regulation.