Marc Helbling
Principal Investigator
Marc Helbling is full professor in political sociology at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research fields include immigration and citizenship politics, nationalism, xenophobia/islamophobia.
Webpage: www.marc-helbling.ch
Research collaborators
Tariq Abou-Chadi
Tarik Abou-Chadi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Unviersity of Zurich. His research focuses on political competition, elections and the transformation of politics in post-industrial societies. He currently is the PI of a project investigating the effect of social status threat on electoral behavior.
Webpage: https://www.tarikabouchadi.net/
Valentin Berger
Valentin T. Z. Berger is a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Sociology at the University of Bamberg. He holds a Master degree in Politics and Public Administration from the University of Konstanz and University of Warsaw. In his doctoral thesis, he investigates the influence of radical right parties on sub-areas of migration policies in Western industrialized countries.
Magdalena Breyer
Magdalena Breyer is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. She studied Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Freiburg. Her PhD project focuses on the effect of immigration policies and gender equality on social status and voting behavior.
Samuel D. Schmid
Sam Schmid is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He holds a BA in Political Science and a MA in World Society and Global Governance from the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. His dissertation, which is supervised by Rainer Bauböck and Maarten Vink, analyzes the relationship between immigration and citizenship policies in immigrant-receiving democracies.
Stephan Simon
Stephan Simon is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Political Sociology at the University of Bamberg. He currently develops his dissertation topic and teaches seminars about ethnic discrimination and ethnic exclusion at the University of Bamberg. His research interests comprise ethnic discrimination, social inequalities, immigration policies and global religious movements.
Former Research collaborators
PhD students
Liv Bierre
Friederike Römer
Malisa Zobel
Student assistants
Anne Bohm
Florian Eyert
Maren Hahnen
Jonas Kahle
Dorina Kalkum
Andrea Pürckhauer
Hannah Schilling