Postdoc Fellows
Research Interests
- Social cohesion
- Construction and change of geopolitical identities
- Personality and identity development in response to intercultural contact
Research Interests
- Family Dynamics
- Family in eastern and western Germany
- Education to work transition
Research Interests
International Relations
International Political Economy
EU External Relations
- Politics of global trade governance
- North-South relations, in particular EU-ACP trade and development cooperation
- China as a rising power
- Constructivist perspectives on international negotiations
Research Interests
- Social Network Analysis
- Economic Sociology
Methods Expertise
- Natural Language Processing
- (Quantative) Network Analysis
- Econometrics
Research Interests
Social Stratification
Inequality
I have two main research areas. My primary area of interest is in social stratification, specifically the relationship between rising economic growth and declining job quality. I also have a secondary area of interest in urban sociology. Though the two areas are broad, they are united by a focus on inequality.
Research Interests
Political Sociology
In the social sciences:
- Cross-cultural psychology
- Political culture
- Modernization/civilization
- Human development
- Linguistic relativity
- Historical grammar
- Dialect syntax
- (Alemannic, Gallo-Romance)
Research Interests
My research is at the intersection of international relations, conflict studies, and political sociology. Eastern and southern Africa, especially the Democratic Republic of Congo, are my areas of geographic specialization. In the Congo, I have conducted research on humanitarian military intervention, armed groups, and local structures of rule. More recently, I became interested in the dynamics between collective contentious action and forms of internationalized authority. My teaching and research interests also include development cooperation, sovereign debt politics, and post-conflict statebuilding.