David Abraham, University of Miami School of Law, Law
BA and PhD in History, University of Chicago; JD University of Pennsylvania. Over the years I have been interested in historical political economy, particularly in the rise of social democracy and the fragility of capitalist democracy. This led me to study the Weimar Republic and Nazism and other instances of democratic breakdown. I have also been interested in the welfare state and social rights and am currently working on Citizenship in an Era of Neo Liberalism. Most of my interest are comparative and involve the US, Germany, and Israel.
email: dabraham@law.miami.edu

Fiona B. Adamson, SOAS, University of London, Political Science
Fiona B. Adamson (PhD, Columbia University, 2002) is an Associate Professor of International Relations at SOAS, University of London. Her research on diaspora politics, transnationalism, migration and security has appeared in International Security, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, and Political Science Quarterly, as well as various edited volumes. Dr. Adamson is co-editor of the book series Security and Governance (Routledge); founding co-convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Security Issues standing group; and co-convenor of the London Migration Research Group (LMRG). She has previously taught at University College London, and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, Stanford University, and Humboldt University, Berlin.
email: fa33@soas.ac.uk
website: www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff36218.php

David Art, Tufts University, Political Science
David Art is the author of The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and co-convenor of the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy. He is currently writing a book that explains why radical right parties have succeeded in some states in Western Europe and failed in others.
email: david.art@tufts.edu
website: ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty/art/bio.asp

Christopher Bail, Harvard University, Sociology
Christopher A. Bail is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program on Inequality and Social Policy and a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at Harvard University. His dissertation compares the uses of collective memory of terrorism in the reform of "philosophies of integration" in the U.S. and U.K. His previous research on the "configuration" of symbolic boundaries between natives and immigrants in twenty-one European countries has appeared in the American Sociological Review and Revue Européenne de Migrations Internationales. He is the recipient of grants from the German Marshall Fund and the National Science Foundation, and the winner of the 2007 Aage B. Sorensen Award. He is an affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology.
email: bail@fas.harvard.edu
website: www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/gs/Bail_Christopher/

Jean Beaman, Northwestern University, Sociology
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University whose larger research interests center around race and place. My dissertation explores how race becomes manifest in French society, which does not officially recognize it, through the lens of second-generation North African immigrants.
email: j-beaman@northwestern.edu

Sladja Blazan, New York University / Humboldt University Berlin, American Studies / Comparative Literature
Sladja Blazan is a Visiting Professor and Humboldt Fellow at the German Department at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in English and American Literary and Cultural Studies from Humboldt University Berlin after completing her M.A. studies in Berlin, New York and Dublin. Her publications include a monograph on post-socialist literature entitled American Fictionary: Postsocialist Migration in American Literature (Heidelberg: Winter, 2006), an edited collection entitled Ghost, Gender, History: Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), as well as various articles on migration, sexuality, death, and race in the Anglo-American and German literary and cultural discourse. She is currently working on a monograph on death and ghostliness in 19. ct. American literature and culture.
email: sladja.blazan@rz.hu-berlin.de

Erik Bleich, Middlebury College, Political Science
Erik Bleich is interested in issues of race, ethnicity, religion and policymaking in Western Europe. His articles on these topics have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Theory & Society, and the American Behavioral Scientist. His book, Race Politics in Britain and France: Ideas and Policymaking since the 1960s, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2003 and he is the editor of a 2009 special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on "Muslims and the State in the post-9/11 West." His current projects include a study of state responses to ethnic riots; state and societal responses to Muslims in Europe; and how liberal democracies balance values of freedom and the promotion of community cohesion.
email: ebleich@middlebury.edu
website: www.middlebury.edu/academics/ump/majors/ps/hours/ebleich.htm

Catherine Benoît, Connecticut College, Anthropology
These past ten years I have been working as an anthropologist on health and immigration issues in the French Caribbean overseas departments. My work has focused first on undocumented migrants' access to health care in Guadeloupe and St. Martin and second on health structural inequalities in Haiti. My next research project will be dealing with immigration issues in regards to law making and enforcement in the Spanish, Portuguese and French overseas territories.
email: catherinebenoit@mac.com
website: www.conncoll.edu/academics/web_profiles/benoit.html

Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh, School of Social and Political Studies, Politics
Christina Boswell is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh, where she heads the Migration and Citizenship Research Group. Her research focuses on European migration policy, theories of public policy, and knowledge utilisation in policy-making. She is author of European Migration Policies in Flux (Blackwell's 2003), The Ethics of Refugee Policy (Ashgate 2005), and The Political Functions of Expert Knowledge (forthcoming 2008, Cambridge University Press). She has published articles in the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, International Affairs, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and International Migration Review.
email: christina.boswell@ed.ac.uk
website: www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/politics/boswell_christina

John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis, Anthropology
John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His long-term fieldwork has been in Indonesia, particularly in Aceh, and is most recently reflected in his book Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning (Cambridge, 2003). Current research on Islam and the state in France is reflected in Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves (Princeton, 2007), and his next book, Can Islam be French? will appear from Princeton in 2008, followed by The New Anthropology of Islam from Cambridge.
email: jbowen@wustl.edu
website: http://artsci.wustl.edu/%7Eanthro/blurb/b_bowen.html

Suzanna M. Crage, PhD Candidate, Indiana University, Department of Sociology
Suzanna M. Crage is a PhD candidate in sociology at Indiana University. Her research interests include sociology of culture and political sociology, social movements, migration and identity. Her dissertation research examines the development of very different refugee aid policies in Berlin and Munich, explaining them by looking at how local context interacts with ideas about refugees, German national identity and the place of the Holocaust in present-day life. In her next project she will focus on the policies, practices and attitudes of non-governmental organizations that work with and for refugees in the two cities.
email: scrage@indiana.edu
website: www.suzannacrage.com

Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University, Dept. of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School
Dancygier's broad research interests are in comparative politics and comparative political economy. Her research focuses on the domestic consequences of international immigration, the political incorporation of immigrants, the relationship between ethnic diversity and redistribution and the determinants of ethnic conflict. She is currently working on a book which explores how immigration regimes and welfare states interact with local political economies to explain the incidence of immigrant conflict at the subnational level in Western Europe.
email: rdancygi@princeton.edu
website: www.princeton.edu/~rdancygi/

Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam
Jan Willem Duyvendak is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He studied sociology and philosophy in Groningen (the Netherlands) and Paris (France). He was the head of a social science research institute in Utrecht (the Verwey-Jonker Institute) and professor of Community Development at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His work deals with various themes such as multiculturalism, social cohesion, social movements and social policy. He is the author of The Power of Politics, New Social Movements in an Old Polity. France 1965-1989, published in 1995 by Westview Press (Boulder, Colorado), New Social Movements in Western Europe, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995 (ed. with M. Giugni, H. Kriesi and R. Koopmans), The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics. National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999 (ed. with B.D. Adam and A. Krouwel), and Policy, People, and the New Professional. De-professionalisation and Re-professionalisation in Care and Welfare, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006 (ed. with T. Knijn and M.Kremer). Recently, he was visiting scholar at the sociology department of UC Berkeley and the Graduate Center of CUNY.
email: W.G.J.Duyvendak@uva.nl
website: www.jwduyvendak.nl/

Barbara Faedda, Columbia University, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, (Assistant Director), Legal Anthropology
Ph.D. in Legal Anthropology and Social Science. Author of two books, articles and sections in books on immigration, multiculturalism, racism and the anthropology of law. Lecturer in Italy on these topics since 2000 (courses for graduate students, masters, and training of governmental officers). Membership: AAA, APLA, Law & Society, Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism.
email: bf2187@columbia.edu

Adrian Favell, UCLA, Department of Sociology
Author of Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and Britain (1998), and Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe (2008), and editor or co-editor of The New Xenophobia in Europe (1995), The European Union: Immigration, Asylum and Citizenship (1998), The Politics of Belonging: Migrants and Minorities in Contemporary Europe (1999), EU Enlargement and East-West Migration (2002), The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia Pacific (2006), and The New Face of East-West Migration in Europe (2008)
email: afavell@soc.ucla.edu
website: www.soc.ucla.edu/faculty/favell

Gary P Freeman, University of Texas at Austin, Political Science
Gary P. Freeman received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975. He is Professor of Government and chair of the department at the University of Texas, Austin. He has been a visitor at Cornell University, the Australian National University, the Australian Defence Forces Academy, Monash University, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Freeman specializes in the politics of immigration, comparative social policy, and politics in western democracies. He is the author of Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies and editor of Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration (edited with James Jupp). He is co-editor with Terri Givens and David Leal of Immigration Policy and Security (Routledge, forthcoming).
email: gfreeman@austin.utexas.edu
www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/government/faculty/profiles/Freeman/Gary/

Sara Wallace Goodman, Georgetown University, Government
Ms. Wallace Goodman is a Ph.D. candidate writing her dissertation on language and civic requirements for citizenship in Great Britain, France, and the United States.
email: sbw7@georgetown.edu
website: www12.georgetown.edu/students/sbw7/

Simon Green, University of Birmingham, Political Science
My work has focused on citizenship and naturalisation in Germany and Europe, and more recently has gained a British-German comparative perspective.
email: s.o.green@bham.ac.uk
website: www.igs.bham.ac.uk/staff/green.htm

Abdoulaye Gueye, University of Ottawa, Sociology
Abdoulaye Gueye received his PH.D from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was visiting professor at the Department of Romance Languages at Harvard University. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. He published Les intellectuels africains africains en France and co-edited Figures croisées d'intellectuels.
email: agueye@uottawa.ca

James Hampshire, University of Sussex, Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies and Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Political Science
I am a political scientist with research interests in immigration policymaking, citizenship and race. I am the author of Citizenship and Belonging: Immigration and the Politics of Demographic Governance in Postwar Britain (Palgrave 2005) and I am currently working on a book on immigration and liberal democracy to be published with Polity.
email: j.a.hampshire@sussex.ac.uk
website: www.sussex.ac.uk/polces/profile171966.html

Randall Hansen, University of Toronto, Political Science
Randall Hansen is the Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance at the University of Toronto. His research interests include citizenship and immigration, particularly the relationship of the latter to secularism and welfare policy. His published works include Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (OUP, 2000), Towards a European Nationality (w. P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (w. P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to the Present [w. M. Gibney, ABC-CLIO, 2005].
email: r.hansen@utoronto.ca
website: www.randallhansen.ca

Marc M. Howard, Georgetown University, Political Science
Marc Morjé Howard is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University. His research has addressed a variety of topics related to democracy and democratization, including civil society, citizenship, hybrid regimes, right-wing extremism, and public opinion. He is the author of The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge, 2003) and Varieties of Citizenship in the European Union (Cambridge, forthcoming). He has also published articles in numerous academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, the International Migration Review, and the Journal of Democracy.
email: mmh@georgetown.edu
website: government.georgetown.edu/mmh

Christian Joppke, The American University of Paris, Sociology and Political Science
CJ is a professor of politics at The American University of Paris. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley in 1989. Before settling down in Paris, he held appointments in the United States, Canada, Italy, and Germany. He published widely on immigration, citizenship, ethnicity, and related issues. His most recent book is Veil: Mirror of Identity; (Polity Press, forthcoming). He is currently writing a book on citizenship and immigration, also for Polity Press. With John Torpey he is engaged in a project on the accommodation of Islam in North America and Western Europe.
email: cjoppke@aup.fr
website: www.aup.fr/graduate/gsg/faculty/joppke.htm

Brian Edward Karlsson, George Washington University, Political Science
I am generally interested in why political discourse over immigration and integration takes on different characteristics across Europe and why immigration restrictionism is a relatively mainstream issue in some countries and among certain parties of the right but not others. My dissertation seeks to answer this question by exploring how domestic debates over the Nazi past have impacted immigration and integration discourse in the German-speaking countries of Europe. I am particularly interested in demonstrating how the norms created in the debates over the past and the various memory frames adopted by mainstream political actors have spill-over effects into other political issues that narrow the discursive space for restrictionist immigration policies and privilege certain immigration actors and policy positions over others.
email: karlsson@gwu.edu

Jytte Klausen, Brandeis University, Political Science
Jytte Klausen is professor of comparative politics at Brandeis University and an affiliate at The Center for European Studies, at Harvard University. Her most recent book is The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press 2005; paperback 2007), which was published in a German translation as Europas muslimische Eliten. Wer sie sind und was sie wollen (Campus Verlag 2006) and in Turkish as Islami Yeniden Düsünmek: Bati Avrupa'da Siyaset ve Din (Liberte 2008). Klausen was a British Academy Visiting Professor at Nuffield College (2003) and a Bosch Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2004). In 2007, she received the Carnegie Scholar's Award. Her next book is about the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and the protests against their publication (forthcoming Yale University Press). Other current research projects include a study of recruitment to Jihadi terrorism in Europe and the United States and the politics of the integration of Islam in Europe.
email: klausen@brandeis.edu

Rey Koslowski, University at Albany (SUNY), Political Science and Informatics
Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy and Associate Professor of Informatics, College of Computing and Information,University at Albany (SUNY). He is currently a Nonresident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, a member of the editorial board of International Migration Review and will be a Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy at the German Marshall Fund in 2008-09. Koslowski is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implemention of US-VISIT (Washingon: Migration Policy Institute, 2005); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001).
email: rkoslowski@uamail.albany.edu
website: www.albany.edu/~rk289758

Michèle Lamont, Harvard University, Sociology and African and African American Studies
Michèle Lamont is Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She taught at Princeton University for fifteen years before joining the Harvard faculty in 2003. She has written on the role of culture in generating social inequality; the cultural strategies of stigmatized groups for coping with racism; culture and poverty; how culture mediate the impact of discrimination on health, many other topics. Her articles have appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Sociological Theory, Annual Review of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and numerous other journals. Professor Lamont has been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and the German Marshall Funds as well as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
email: mlamont@wjh.harvard.edu
website: www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/lamont/

Jonathan Laurence, Boston College / Brookings Institution, Political Science
Jonathan Laurence is an assistant professor of political science at Boston College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Jonathan's research on Islam in Europe has been published in German Politics and Society (2001), French Politics, Culture and Society (2005), International Crisis Group (2007) and Foreign Affairs (2007) and several edited volumes. His first book, Integrating Islam: political and religious challenges in contemporary France (co-authored with Justin Vaisse, Brookings Press 2006 and Odile Jacob 2007) examined Muslims and Islam in French politics and institutions. Jonathan's Ph.D. thesis (Harvard 2006) received the APSA's Laswell prize for best dissertation in public policy.
email: Laurenjo@bc.edu
website: www.jonathanlaurence.net

Dr. Andrew Lawrence, The University of Edinburgh
My own current research is on health worker migrants from Africa to the UK and EU.
email: andrew.lawrence@ed.ac.uk
website: www.cas.ed.ac.uk

Willem Maas, York University, Political Science
Willem Maas (BA, British Columbia; Doctoraal, Leiden; MA, MPhil, PhD, Yale) holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public & International Affairs, York University. He is the author of Creating European Citizens (2007) and numerous chapters and articles. Maas is currently researching theoretical and empirical questions on citizenship, integration policies, the limits of tolerance and multiculturalism, and the intersection of migration and law.
email: maas@yorku.ca
website: www.yorku.ca/maas/

Anthony M. Messina, University of Notre Dame, Political Science
He is the author of The Logics and Politics of Post-World War II Migration to Western Europe (2007) and Race and Party Competition in Britain (1989); and editor or co-editor of West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century (2002), The Year of the Euro (2006), and Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992). His co-authored article, ""The Limits of a European Immigration Policy"," was recognized as the best article published in the Journal of Common Market Studies in 2005.
email: messina.3@nd.edu
website: kellogg.nd.edu/faculty/fellows/messina.shtml

Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, Institute of Public Goods and Policies, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Master in Social Sciences at the Instituto Juan March of Madrid, MSc in Social Policy and Planning at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and PhD in Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. He received grants from the British Council, Fundación La Caixa, Fundación Juan March, Fullbright Commission and the Marie Curie programme. He has been visiting scholar at Wesleyan University, the Institut d?Etudes Politiques de Paris, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Between the academic years 2000-01 and 2004-05 he was assistant professor at the Departament de Sociologia i Anàlisi de les Organitzacions of the Universitat de Barcelona. His main areas of interest are centred in the comparative analysis of public policies within the European region, with a special focus in the study of the relation between immigration and the evolution of welfare regimes, as well as migration and antidiscrimination policies. He published his doctoral thesis at the Colección Documentos of the Consejo Económico y Social, several chapters in edited volumes (Palgrave, Pittsburg U. Press, La Decouverte), as well as articles in scientific journals (Politics & Society, Hagar, Pôle Sud, Política y Sociedad).
email: javier.moreno@cchs.csic.es
website: www.iesam.csic.es/Pi-ing/fmorenoi.htm

(Dr) Pontus Odmalm, University of Edinburgh, Political Science
Pontus Odmalm is Lecturer in Politics. His research interests include citizenship, migrant activism and politics of integration.
email: pontus.odmalm@ed.ac.uk
website: www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/odmalm_pontus

Galya Ruffer, J.D., Ph.D., Northwestern University, Political Science
Galya Ruffer's current research focuses on narratives of constitutional rights that enable or inhibit immigrant integration and incorporation in western liberal democracies. She is the author of The Cosmopolitics of Asylum Seekers in the European Union (New Political Science, 2005). Her article "Courts Across Borders: The Implications of Judicial Agency for Human Rights and Democracy," (co-authored with David Jacobson) published in Human Rights Quarterly (February 2003), has since been reprinted in People Out of Place (Routledge, 2004) and Dialogues on Migration Policy (Lexington Books, 2006). She has received a fellowship from the Social Science Research Council and was a visiting scholar at the Free University in Berlin. Aside from her academic work, Professor Ruffer has worked as an immigration attorney representing political asylum claimants, mainly from Sri Lanka and India, both as a solo-practitioner and as a pro-bono attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
email: g-ruffer@northwestern.edu

Daniel Sabbagh, Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po), Political Science
Daniel Sabbagh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po). He is the author of L'Égalité par le droit: les paradoxes de la discrimination positive aux États-Unis (Paris, Économica, 2003; François Furet Book Award 2004), an updated and revised translation of which has been published under the title Equality and Transparency: A Strategic Perspective on Affirmative Action in American Law (New York, Palgrave, 2007). His work deals with antidiscrimination and affirmative action policies, from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. He teaches in the graduate school of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). Along with sociologists Devah Pager and Agnès van Zanten, he is a member of the steering committee of the French American Foundation's Equality of Opportunity program.
email: sabbagh@ceri-sciences-po.org

Carolyn Sattin, New York University, Education/ Sociology
Carolyn Sattin is a doctoral student in International Education at New York University and a research assistant at the Institute for Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). Her research looks at the ways in which immigrant families learn to navigate school systems and how public institutions respond to culturally diverse constituencies. Her dissertation work focuses specifically on Ecuadorian immigrants' experiences with schooling in Madrid and New York City and the different approaches to integration implemented in these global cities. She is also interested in cultural capital, social networks, comparative integration policies, and xenophobia.
email: ces361@nyu.edu

Katia Scannavini, La Sapienza - University of Rome (Italy), Sociology
Sociologist - Phd in Theory and Social Research. Scientific and Teaching Coordinator Master's Degree course in Migrants and Refugees - Faculty of Communication Sciences, "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Contract Professor, Chair of Organization of Media Systems - Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Cassino. Member of Anti-discrimination and diversity training, Human European Consultancy. Fields of research: immigrants and refugees in Europe, migration literature (migrant writers in Europe), immigrant inclusion and immigrant integration, pluralism and multiculturalism, immigration and religion, immigration and mass media.
email: katia.scannavini@gmail.com

Oliver Schmidtke, University of Victoria, Political Science
Oliver Schmidtke is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Political Science at the University of Victoria. He holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics and is the Director of European Studies at UVic. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, worked at the Humboldt University in Berlin in the late 1990s and spent a year as a research fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University before coming to UVic in 1999. His research interests are in the fields of comparative European politics and contemporary history, European integration, the political sociology of immigration and ethnic conflict, and the role of identities and collective memory in modern societies.
email: ofs@uvic.ca
website: web.uvic.ca/polisci/schmidtke/

Karen Schönwälder, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung/Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), Political Science
Her main fields of research include migration policy and societal responses to migration in Germany and Great Britain, various aspects of immigrant integration. Before joining the WZB in 2003, she taught in London and at a number of German universities (Marburg, Gießen). She is a Privatdozentin at Berlin's Free University.
email: schoenwaelder@wzb.eu
website: www.wzb.eu/zkd/mit

Nitzan Shoshan, The University of Chicago, Anthropology
I am a doctoral candidate, expecting to defend my dissertation in June 2008. My research consisted of ethnographic fieldwork with young right-extremist street milieus in Berlin's southeast. My interests include violence, (ultra-)nationalism, space and place, memory, semiotics, Germany
email: nitzan.shoshan@gmail.com

Patrick Simon, Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques (INED), Demography
Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED, where he heads the research unit "International Migration and Minorities" and is fellow researcher at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po.
Trained as socio-demographer at EHESS (Doctoral degree circa 1994), he has studied social and ethnic segregation in French cities, antidiscrimination policies and the integration of ethnic minorities in European countries. He has participated to several European projects, such as URBEX (The spatial dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration) in the 4th framework and EMILIE (A European Approach to Multicultural Citizenship. Legal Political and Educational Challenges), an ongoing project funded by the 6th FP. He chairs at the Executive board of the European Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration and Social Cohesion in Europe). He is chairing the scientific panel "Integration of immigrants" at the IUSSP (International Union for the Scientific Studies of Population).
email: simon@ined.fr
www.ined.fr/en/current_researchs/researchers/bdd/nom/Simon+Patrick/

Dietrich Thränhardt, Universität Münster, 2008/09 German Marshall Fund, Washington, Political Science
After working on German politics and post-war history, my main interest is now in comparative migration research, with respect to policies and politics. In the next year, I shall work on a book about possibilites of a gradual opening of the world and the counterproductive effects of controls and borders. One model to follow seems to be the EU, in contrast to NAFTA.
email: thranha@uni-muenster.de
website: egora.uni-muenster.de/pol/personen/thraenhardt.shtml

Phil Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto, Political Science
My research focuses on how states' immigration and citizenship policies draw from and define their prevailing conceptions of national identity. I recently completed project on the roots of postwar cultural pluralization in Canada and Germany and am beginning a comparative study on the integration of Muslim immigrants in Western Europe (with Anna Korteweg)
email: t.triadafilopoulos@utoronto.ca
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~socsci/faculty/triadafilopoulos/index.html
www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/faculty_staff/ourfaculty/phil_triad.htm

Patrick Weil, CNRS (University of Paris 1) and Paris School of Economics (PSE), History
Patrick Weil is senior research fellow at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and serves as the director of CEPIC (Center for the Study of Immigration, Integration and Citizenship Policies) at the University of Paris 1-Sorbonne. He has studied and published on comparative immigration, citizenship and integration policies. His most recent books are Qu'est ce qu'un français? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution (What is a Frenchman? History of the French Nationality since the Revolution), Paris, Grasset, 2002; La République et sa diversité (The Republic and its diversity), Paris, Seuil, 2005; and co-edited with Stéphane Dufoix, L'esclavage, la colonisation et après... France, Etats-Unis, Royaume-Uni (Slavery, Colonization and after...France, USA, UK), Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2005. In 1997, he was appointed by the French Government to write a report on immigration and nationality policy reform. This report served as the basis for the immigration and nationality laws passed by the French Parliament in 1998. In 2003, he served as a member of the Presidential Commission created by President Jacques Chirac on the 'Implementation of the principle of Secularism within the French Republic.'
email: weil@univ-paris1.fr
website: www.patrick-weil.com

Christopher Wendt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Political Science
Wendt's research agenda focuses on the political and social dynamics of "natives" and "immigrants" in advanced industrial democracies. His current project seeks to explain the emergence and variation in support for "Nativist" parties in Western Europe since 1973.
email: cwendt@mit.edu
website: web.mit.edu/polisci/students/cwendt/cwendt.html

Gokce Yurdakul, Trinity College Dublin/ Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Free University, Sociology
Gokce Yurdakul's research and teaching interests are citizenship, immigrant integration and Muslim communities in Europe and North America. She is currently working on the project which is recently awarded a major research grant: "Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation and Minority Rights."
email: gokce.yurdakul@tcd.ie

Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research Department of Political Science Graduate Faculty, Historically-oriented political sociology
Aristide R. Zolberg is Walter A. Eberstadt Professor of political science and historical studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He received his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago and has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (“Sciences Po”) and the College de France, in Paris, as well as the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, the Salzburg Seminar, and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (Oslo). He is the author of many books, starting with One-Party Government in the Ivory Coast (Princeton University Press, 1961) and most recently A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Making of America (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; and Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2006 forthcoming in paperback, 2008) and a forthcoming collection of essays, How Many Exceptionalisms? Explorations in Comparative Macroanalysis (Temple University Press, 2008). In 1981, the French government awarded him the Palmes Académiques in recognition of distinguished service to French Higher Education.
email: arizol@newschool.edu