Jennifer A. Yoder Assistant Professor of Government B.A. University of Akron; M.A. and Ph.D. University of Maryland

Professor Yoder joined the Colby faculty in 1996 after receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a joint appointment with the Department of Government and the Department of International Studies and teaches courses on European politics and societies. Her special interests are German politics, the transition from communism, and transitional justice. Her book, From East Germans to Germans? The New Postcommunist Elites, was published in 1999 by Duke University Press. She has also published several articles on various aspects of East-West German integration and democratic consolidation after 1990 (for more, see link to publications below). She is currently working on a new book project - a comparative study of regionalization in postcommunist eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.