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AY 2025-2026 Cluster Member, Laura Tanguay, provides insight into her work while in residence. 

AY 2025-2026 Cluster Member, Jarmo Kallunki, provides insight into his work while in residence. 

Urban Inequalities and the (In)Visibility of Illegalized Migrants: Comparative Perspectives on Marginalization, Stigmatization, and Recognition

Anna Skarpelis has recently been recognized through several awards: 

Roger V. Gould Prize, American Journal of Sociology

CUNY Queens College Social Sciences Award

Charles Tilly Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Comparative and...

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen received an ERC Starting Grant (1.5 million €, running for five years from August 2025-July 2030) for the project ‘The Paradox of Political Marginalisation: Young People and Political Power (YOPOW)’

This past May, Jonathan Jan Benjamin Mijs received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University.

Matias Lopez begins new position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). 

Ron Levi has recently started three new positions: 

Senior Advisor, Undergraduate Curriculum, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto

Associate Director, Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World, University of...

Peter Harvey won the James Coleman Award for Best Article in the Sociology of Education, from ASA’s Education Section.

Peter Harvey started a new position as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Bloomington in August 2025. 

Poulomi Chakrabarti recently joined the faculty of the political science department at Ashoka University in India as an assistant professor. 

Luuc Brans recently secured two new positions: 

A Fulbright-Schuman Postdoctoral Grant for a term at Columbia University & a multiyear FWO (Flanders Research Foundation) postdoctoral grant.