Visiting with us this term

18 researchers, at all stages of their careers, are visiting with us this term, for a few weeks to a full year. Coming from Europe, Africa, North and South America, Oceania, they reflect the broad range of our research interests.

5 invited professors

Fernanda Natasha Bravo Cruz is an Associate Professor at the University of Brasilia (Brazil). Her research focuses on public action instrumentation in the environmental and political participation fields in Brazil.

Mona Krewel is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). She studies political communication, particularly on social networks, and is interested in the reasons behind the rise of far-right parties in Europe.

Ayan Meer, an Assistant Professor at Queen Mary University London (UK), is interested in the political economy of development, and in particular the social and territorial transformations brought about by the international mobility of capital.

Paavo Monkkonen, a Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA, United States), studies housing policies at different scales, local and national, comparing the United States and Europe.

Barbara Risman, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (USA), is a specialist in gender studies, with a particular focus on gender inequalities. She is currently conducting comparative research on people who identify as non-binary.

Visiting junior scholars researching on key topics of the CEE

A number of visiting scholars are working on topics related to EU economic policy: Odysseas Konstantinakos, a PhD Candidate at the European University Institute (EUI, Italy), is preparing a thesis on the changes in the EU's macroeconomic policy, from the debt crisis to the Covid crisis; Lucas Schramm, a Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Münich (Germany), is studying the transformations in European economic integration under the effect of the current geopolitical context; Jordy Weyns, a PhD Candidate at the EUI, is studying the instruments of foreign trade policy in Europe.

Several of our guests are working on environmental issues. Like Fernanda Natasha Bravo Cruz (see above), Hamidou Diallo, a PhD Candidate at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (Senegal), is interested in public action in the environmental field – his case study is the Great Green Wall project in the Sahel. We also welcomed Sören Altstaedt, a PhD Candidate at the University of Hamburg (Germany), who is interested in the limits to growth through the genesis of modelling practices since the Meadows report; Reja Wyss, a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford (UK), who is studying the response of populist parties to climate change, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe; and Nikolaj Schultz, a PhD Candidate at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), who ended his stay by publishing with Bruno Cousin on the residential behaviour of the ultra-rich in the face of the climate crisis.

Two PhD candidates from Oxford University, invited as part of the OxPo partnership, are working on the far right (as is Mona Krewel – see above): Lena Schorlemer is looking at the relationship between far-right political parties and radical militant groups; Reja Wyss is studying the response of these parties to climate change (see above).

Kira Renée Kurz, a PhD Candidate at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and the University of Strasbourg (France), and Robin Rentrop, a PhD Candidate at the University of Trier (Germany), are looking at the political representation of young people. The former as part of a thesis on intergenerational conflicts and political parties, and the latter as part of the Franco-German UNEQUALMAND project co-directed by Isabelle Guinaudeau.

Finally, Øystein Solvang, a PhD Candidate at Norway's Arctic University, is working on administrative reforms at regional and local levels (a subject tackled here by Patrick Le Lidec); Lou Raisonnier, a PhD Candidate at the University of Ottawa (Canada), is working on justice responses to the return of jihadist women from Syria and is taking part in the ProMeTe project, which Sandrine Lefranc is part of; while Eleftheria-Theodora Koutsioumpa is working on the resocialisation in France and Germany of migrants who have passed through camps on EU's borders, in connection with the Cities, Borders, Mobilities key theme of the CEE.

Find out more

• All the visiting fellows (including those from previous years).
• The procedure for requesting an invitation to a visiting fellowship at the CEE.