Robert Sata is Assistant Professor at the Political Science Department, Central European University (CEU). Prior to his teaching position, he worked at the department as Associate Research Fellow. His research focuses on populist discourse and the politics of identity. Dr. Sata has published on ethnic relations, minority rights and issues of diversity in the public sphere as well as gender politics and discrimination. He has taught courses in Political Science on CEU’s MA and BA programmes in Budapest and Vienna, at McDaniel College, Budapest, and Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. He has supervised theses on ethnic relations, populism and media, gender issues, intra-state conflict, migration, electoral campaigning, and the Roma in Europe.