Nalepa, Monika: - Monika Nalepa is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe, received the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization section of APSA and the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of APSA. With a focus on post-communist Europe, her research interests include transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and the political economy of regime change.