Previous Visiting Fellows

2024 – 2025

  • Dmitry Kurakin ~ Yale University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow & Acting Associate Director (Teaching Appointment)
  • Kamile Grusauskaite ~ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium  ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Marcel Knöchelmann ~ Yale University ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Ruitong Li ~  Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Siglinde Peetz ~ University of Bern, Switzerland  ~ Visiting Graduate Student 
  • Beer Prakken ~ University of Groningen, Netherlands ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Aleksandra Barjaktarevic ~ Max-Weber-Institute (MWI), Heidelberg University, Germany ~ Research Affiliate

2023 - 2024

  • Dmitry Kurakin ~ Yale University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow (Teaching Appointment)
  • Josetxo Beriain ~ Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Maya Zguiluz Ibarguen ~ UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Yoshie Yanagihara ~ Tokyo Denki University, Japan ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Steven Arrigg Koh ~ Boston University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Henrik Enroth ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup ~ Aarhus University, Denmark ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Romulo Lelis ~ Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Marcel Knöchelmann ~ Yale University ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Santiago Vargas Acevedo ~ University of Cambridge, U.K. ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Zikun Liu ~ Tsinghua University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Chenyang Xie ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Yingyu Zang ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Tracy Adams ~ Yale University ~ Research Affiliate

2022 - 2023 

  • Jason Mast ~ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, University of Trento, Italy ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Liv Egholm ~ Copenhagen Business School, Denmark ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Dick Houtman ~ University of Leuven, Belgium ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Yoshie Yanagihara ~ Tokyo Denki University, Japan ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Federico Brandmayr ~ MacMillan Center at Yale University ~ Postdoctoral Associate
  • Tracy Adams ~ Yale University ~ Postdoctoral Associate
  • Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup ~ Aarhus University, Denmark ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Romulo Lelis ~ Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Marcel Knöchelmann ~ University College London, England ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Sara Raquel de Andrade Silva ~ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Zikun Liu ~ Tsinghua University, Beijing, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Malcolm Jacobson ~ Stockholm University, Sweden ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Pablo Echeverría-Esparza ~ Public University of Navarre (UPNA), Spain ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Kamile Grusauskaite ~ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2021 - 2022

  • Jason Mast ~ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, University of Trento, Italy ~  Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Stephen F. Ostertag ~ Tulane University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Jan Vana ~ Masaryk University, Czechia ~ Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Tracy Adams ~ Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa, Israel ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Federico Brandmayr ~ MacMillan Center at Yale University ~ Postdoctoral Associate
  • Renxue Wan ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Javier Pérez-Jara ~ Beijing Foreign Studies University, China ~  Visiting Fellow
  • Agata Rejowska ~ Jagiellonian University, Poland ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2020 - 2021

  • Jason Mast ~ Normative Orders Research Institute, Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt, Germany ~ Virtual Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky ~ Masaryk University, Czechia ~ Virtual Visiting Faculty Fellow, Fall 2020
  • Masoud Shadnam ~ MacEwan University, Canada ~ Virtual Visiting Fellow, Fall 2020
  • Emily Campbell ~ College of the Holy Cross ~ Virtual Research Associate
  • Lin Zhang ~ University of New Hampshire ~ Virtual Visiting Research Scholar

2019 - 2020         

  • Jongryul Choi ~ Keimyung University, Korea ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Nelson Arteaga Botello ~ Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Rui Gao ~ Beijing Foreign Studies University, China ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Xi She ~ China Agricultural University, Beijing, China ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Emily Campbell ~ College of the Holy Cross ~ Research Associate
  • Luz Angela Cardona Acuña ~ Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México ~ Visiting Researcher
  • Lily Ivanova ~ University of British Columbia, Canada ~  Visiting Graduate Student
  • Sandra Simonsen ~ Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Natella Nuralieva ~ Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2018 - 2019

  • Natalie Aviles ~ Yale University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology ~ Visiting Fellow and Workshop Co-convener (Teaching Appointment)
  • Mervyn Horgan ~ University of Guelph, Canada ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Rui Gao ~ Beijing Foreign Studies University, China ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Josetxo Beriain ~ Universidad  Pública  de Navarra, Spain  ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Xi She ~ China Agricultural University, Beijing, China  ~ Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Zhuojun Zhang ~ Fudan University, China  ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Emily Campbell ~ The Graduate Center, City University of New York  ~  Visiting Graduate Student
  • Helena Funk  ~ Leipzig University, Germany  ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Tálisson Melo de Souza ~ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Dominik Zelinsky ~ University of Edinburgh, U.K ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Bingxin Zhao ~ Harbin Engineering University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2017 - 2018         

  • Trygve Beyer Broch ~ Inland Norway University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Jean-Pascal Daloz ~ University of Strasbourg, France ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Juan Li ~ Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Tomasz Bilczewski ~ Jagiellonian University, Poland ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Pål Halvorsen ~ Nord University, Norway ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Bingxin Zhao ~ Harbin Engineering University in China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Fabian Winiger ~ Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Hong Kong) ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Jiaxuan Yu ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Alrun Berger ~ Institute for Social Movements, Bochum, Germany ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2016 - 2017                         

  • Melissa Aronczyk ~ Rutgers University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Florian Stoll ~ Bayreuth University, Germany ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Celso Villegas ~ Kenyon College ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Pavel Pospěch ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Anna Durnová ~ Vienna Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Erik Hannerz ~ Lund University, Sweden ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Anna Lund ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Juan Li ~ Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • She Xi ~ China Agricultural University, Beijing  ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Lars E. F. Johannessen ~ Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Rebecca Carr ~ Trinity College Dublin ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Michelle Vyoleta Romero Gallardo ~ Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Flacso) Mexico ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2015 - 2016                         

  • Danny Kaplan ~ Bar-Ilan University, Israel ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Kyung-Man Kim ~ Sogang University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Eric Malczewski ~ Harvard University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Dmitry Kurakin ~ Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Nebojša Blanuša ~ University of Zagreb, Croatia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Chunwen Xiong ~ China Agricultural University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Vanda Černohorská ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Giulio Bogani ~ University of Florence, Italy ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • She Xi ~ China Agricultural University, Biejing ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Joana Seiffert ~ Ruhr-Uinversity Bochum, Germany ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • David Waldecker ~ Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Jonas Bååth ~ Uppsala University, Sweden ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2014 - 2015                         

  • Håkon Larsen ~ University of Oslo, Norway ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Bing Xu ~ Shanghai University ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Eric Malczewski ~ Harvard University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Chunwen Xiong ~ China Agricultural University, Beijing, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Paul Jones ~ University of New South Wales, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Sandy Gill ~ Gettysburg College ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Manussos Marangudakis ~ University of the Aegean, Greece ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Jacob Boersema ~ Rutgers University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Mayumi Shimizu ~ University of Tokyo ~ Visiting Exchange Student

2013 - 2014                         

  • Ilana Silber ~ Bar-Ilan University, Israel ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Josetxo Beriain ~ University of Navarra, Spain ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Günter Leypoldt ~ University of Heidelberg, Germany ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Janet Chan ~ University of New South  Wales, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Mike Davis ~ Griffith University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Ying Xiao ~ Shanghai University, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Martina Cvajner ~ Fulbright Scholar, Department of Sociology, Yale ~ Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Ekatherina Zhukova ~ Aarhus University, Denmark ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Michael Perlt ~ University of Copenhagen, Denmark ~ Visiting Exchange Student
  • Andrea Karlsson ~ Lund University, Sweden ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Andreas Pinstrup Jørgensen ~ University of Copenhagen, Denmark ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2012 - 2013                         

  • Dick Houtman ~ Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Daniel Gutiérrez Martínez ~ El Colegio Maxiquense, Mexico ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Ying Xiao ~ Shanghai University, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Radim Marada ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Richard Badham  ~ Macquarie University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Martina Cvajner ~ Fulbright Scholar, Department of Sociology, Yale University ~ Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Jiang Zhang ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Grzegorz Brzozowski ~ University of Warsaw, Poland ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Ruth Sheldon ~ University of Kent, England ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Marta Kolankiewicz ~ Lund University, Sweden ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Julia Rozanova ~ University of British Columbia, Canada  ~ Independent Researcher

2011 - 2012                         

  • Lynette Spillman ~ University of Notre Dame ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Radim Marada ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic ~ Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Magnus Ring ~ Lund University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Monica Brito Vieira ~ University of Lisbon, Portugal ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Filipe Carreira da Silva ~ University of Lisbon, Portugal ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Martin Sauter ~ Dublin City University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Matts Trondman ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Annika Arnold ~ University of Stuttgart, Germany ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Erik Hannerz ~ Uppsala University, Sweden ~ Visiting Graduate Student
  • Thomas Franssen ~ University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2010-2011                          

  • Diane Grams ~ Tulane University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Maria Luengo ~ Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Lizzie Seal ~ Durham University, England ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Mats Trondman ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Christian Morgner ~ Cambridge University, England ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Peter Meylakhs ~ Centre for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Johannes Lang ~ Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Andrea Voyer ~ University of Wisconsin, Madison ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Jonathan Roberge ~ University of Ottawa, Canada ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow 
  • Eric Woods ~ London School of Economics, England ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2009-2010                          

  • Gary Allen Fine ~ Northwestern University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Anna Lund  ~ Linnaeus University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi  ~ Hebrew University of Jersalem, Israel ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Andreas Hess ~ University College Dublin, Ireland ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Bing Xu ~ Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Andrea Cossu ~ University of New Haven ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Natasha Kirsten Kraus  ~ Independent Researcher ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Jason Mast ~ University of California, Los Angeles ~ Research Affiliate
  • Jonathan Roberge ~ University of Ottawa, Canada ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow 
  • Esteban Olle Sanz ~ University of Catalonia, Spain ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Ping Wang ~ Fudan University, China ~ Visiting Graduate Student

2008-2009                          

  • Volker Heins ~ Frankfurt University, Germany ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Sarah Moore ~ University of Kent, England ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Ivana Spasić ~ University of Belgrade, Serbia ~ Fulbright Scholar
  • Marc de Leeuw ~ University for Humanistics, Utrecht, Netherlands ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Natasha Kirsten Kraus ~ Independent Researcher ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Jason Mast ~ University of California, Los Angeles ~ Research Affiliate
  • Sonja van Wichelen ~ University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Esteban Ollé Sanz ~ University of Catalonia, Spain ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Jonathan Roberge ~ University of Ottawa, Canada ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Andrea Cossu ~ Trento University, Italy ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow

2007-2008

  • Sunwoong  Park ~ Korea National University of Education ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Mats Trondman ~ Växjö University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Bernhard Giesen ~ Konstanz University, Germany ~ Visiting Fellow (Teaching Appointment)
  • Marc de Leeuw ~ University for Humanistics, Utrecht, Netherlands ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Farhad Khosrokhavar ~ EHESS - Cadis, Paris ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Pavel Barsa ~ Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic ~ Fulbright Scholar
  • Natasha Kirsten Kraus ~ Independent Researcher  ~ Scholar in Residence
  • Sonja van Wichelen ~ University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow

2006-2007

  • Kenneth Thompson ~ Open University, England ~ Visiting Fellow (Teaching Appointment)
  • Matteo Bortolini ~ University of Padua, Italy ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Orlando Lentini ~ University of Naples, Italy ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Massimo Rosati ~ University of Salerno, Italy ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Ian Woodworth ~ Griffith University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Martin Sauter ~ Dublin City University, Ireland ~ Visiting Fellow 
  • Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia ~ Visiting Fellow 

2005-2006           

  • Eduardo de la Fuente ~ Monash University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Sootaek Kang ~ Gyeongsang National University, Korea ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Sven-Axel Månsson  ~ Malmö University, Sweden ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Lynn Spillman ~ University of Notre Dame ~ Visiting Fellow (Teaching Appointment)
  • Brad West ~ Flinders University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Frederic Vandenburghe ~ Iuperj, University Institute of Research of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ~ Visiting Fellow (Teaching Appointment)
  • Bernhard Giesen ~ Konstanz University, Germany ~ Visiting Fellow (Teaching Appointment)

2004-2005

  • Andy Bennett ~ Griffith University, Australia ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Anna Lund ~ Växjö University, Sweden ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Davide Ponzini ~ Polytechic of Milan, Italy ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow
  • Ian Woodward ~ Griffith University, Australia ~ Post-Doctoral Fellow

2003-2004           

  • Fuyuki Kurasawa ~ York University, Canada  ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Timothy Phillips ~ Australian National University ~ Visiting Fellow
  • Ron Jacobs ~ State University of New York, Albany ~ Visiting Fellow