This year she has been a Visiting Research Fellow at The Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Her research interests focus on comparative politics with particular application to democratization. She is the author of the book Skeletons in the Closet: Transnational Justice in Post-Communist Europe. Nalepa received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, and while a junior faculty member at Rice University she participated in EITM.