EUROPE

 

European Network on Inequality (ENI)

ENI visitors

In addition to sending Doctoral Fellows to Europe for research residencies, the Harvard Inequality program also hosts scholars from our European partner institutions for short-term visits. Senior scholars from the European Network on Inequality institutions may be invited to Harvard to participate in seminars or conferences. They may also nominate Ph.D. candidates from their institutions for short-term visiting research appointments at Harvard.

 

Visiting researchers in academic year 2007-2008

Lynne Copson, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, University of Bristol (Feb-April, 2008).
Research topic: "Zemiology: A Utopian Discourse?"

Evelyne Hübscher, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, European University Institute (Sep 2007-Mar 2008).
Research topic: "The Impact of Government Partisanship on Redistribution in Open Economies."

Melissa Siegel, Ph.D. candidate in Social Protection Policy, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University (Jan-Jul 2008).
Research topic: "Cash and Culture: The Determinants of Remittances and Remittance Channel Choice."

 

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Visiting researchers in academic year 2006-2007

Seminar presentations

Professor Stephen Machin, London School of Economics and University College London, Professor Christoffer Green-Pedersen, University of Aarhus, and Professor Jorn-Steffen Pischke, London School of Economics, presented in the seminar series in the academic year 2006-2007.

 

Visiting researchers

Francscio Javier Moreno Fuentes, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (May- July 2007)
Research topic: "The historical development of social protection and immigration in the U.S. and the E.U."

Christiane Arndt, Ph.D. candidate, Maastricht School of Governance, University of Maastricht (February-November 2007)
Research topic: "Measuring governance and media capture"

Dr. Aycan Celikaksoy-Mortensen, School of Business, University of Aarhus (January-June 2007)
Research topic: "Migration, ethnic inequality, labor market integration and changing family structures of immigrants"

Stefanie Brodmann, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Social & Political Sciences, University Pompeu Fabra (September-December 2006)
Research topic: "The economic adjustments of immigrants"

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Visiting researchers in academic year 2005-06

Seminar presentations
Professor Jaap Dronkers, European University Institute, Florence, Professor Jens Alber, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol, presented in the Malcolm Wiener Center's Inequality and Social Policy seminar series in the academic year 2005-2006.

Visiting researchers

Juho Härkönen, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence (September-December 2005)
Research topic: "The social risks of children in jobless couples"

Mads Leth Jakobsen, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus (September- December 2005)
Research topic: "The impact of ideas in global policy reform on the national policy process"

Nasar Meer, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol and visiting fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African American Studies at Harvard.
Research topic: "Muslims in Britain and the politics of multiculturalism"

Geranda Notten, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Maastricht (March - June 2006)
Research project: "Assessing poverty in the US and the EU"

Marit Skivenes, Research Associate at Fafo Labour Institute for Social Research, Oslo, and Professor at the University of Bergen (September-December 2005)
Research topic: "A comparative study of the normative legal framework for child protection policies in the U.S. and Norway"

Tim Wegenast, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political & Social Sciences, University Pompeu Fabra (April-June 2006)
Research topic: "Educational policies in the age of open markets: trade specialization and political accountability in developing countries"

Jonathan White, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence (February - May 2006)
Research topic: "The political bond in Europe"

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Visiting researchers in academic year 2004-05

Olga Salido Cortes, Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Research Collaborator of the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (May-July 2005)
Research topic: "The effect of economic cycles on income inequality among women"

Jason Strelitz, Ph.D. student LSE CASE (September-December 2005)
Research topic: "The Second Generation: pathways into poverty and prosperity for children of immigrants"