Postdoc Fellows
Research Interests
- Social cohesion
- Construction and change of geopolitical identities
- Personality and identity development in response to intercultural contact
Research Interests
- Life Course Transitions and Social Inequality
- Family Dynamics and Expansion
- Education to Work Transitions
- Social Structure and Social Change
Research Interests
- Social Network Analysis
- Economic Sociology
Methods Expertise
- Natural Language Processing
- (Quantative) Network Analysis
- Econometrics
Research Interests
- Social policy in China and East Asia
- Healthcare system in China and East Asia
- Technical and vocational education and training in China and East Asia
- International and international migration, social protection of migrants
Research Interests
- welfare states and social policy
- transnational migration and policy diffusion between Central-Eastern and Western Europe
- gender, class, and ethnicity in an intersectional perspective
Research Interests
- Evolutionary psychology of intergroup conflict and dynamics between minorities and majorities
- Management of common resources in heterogeneous societies
- Impact of religious belief and secular authority on social behaviour
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.