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Morten Frederiksen

Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2021).
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2021).

Research interests: Solidarity, trust, welfare, social justice, redistribution, attitudes, comparative research, attitudes, valuation and evaluation, civil society, volunteering and coproduction.

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mfr@socsci.aau.dk
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Gözde Güran

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), Georgetown University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2020-2021).
Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (2020-2021).

Research interests: Economic sociology, war, migration, money and pricing, ethnography, experiments and the Middle East, with special focus on Syria.... Read more about Gözde Güran

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gozde.guran@georgetown.edu
@gozdeguran
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Alicia Harley

Lecturer in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Harvard College.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2019).
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Sustainability Science Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2019-2021)

Research interests: Role of institutions (rules, norms, culture, and beliefs) in shaping development pathways in the Anthropocene System and how actors can reorient institutions to meet sustainable development goals, and the consequences of inequality and maldistributions of power on development pathways.

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alicia_harley@hks.harvard.edu
@Alicia_Harley
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Yossi Harpaz

Assistant Professor in Sociology, Tel-Aviv University.
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2021-2022)
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2022).

Research interests: Globalization, international migration, citizenship, nationalism and ethnicity, political sociology, social theory, political ritual, and historical-comparative sociology.

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yharpaz@tauex.tau.ac.il
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Antoinette Hetzler

Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Lund University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2017-2019).
SCANCOR Visiting Scholar (2017-2018).

Research interests: Social policy and the welfare state, specially conflict at work, changing employment relationships in women dominated professions, and guaranteeing rights while regulating the public sector.

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antoinette.hetzler@soc.lu.se
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Hilary Holbrow

Assistant Professor of Japanese Politics and Society, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Work and organizations, migration, inequality, race, ethnicity, gender, and East Asian societies, and stratification

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hilholbr@iu.edu
@HilaryHolbrow
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Ron Levi

Professor of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Sociology; Distinguished Professor of Global Justice; Director, Global Justice Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2019).

Research interests: Internationalization of law, and the social and political dimensions of legal responses to urban crime and atrocities, justifications and claims for recognition in the field of international justice, and research on experiences of law, legal cynicism, and attendant recognition gaps for minority communities in Europe and the US.

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ron.levi@utoronto.ca
@ronleviutoronto
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Matias López

Postdoctoral Researcher, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
Affiliate, Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2017-2019).
Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (2017-2018).

Research interests: Causes of democratic stability in contexts of high inequality, how distribution is shaped by elites' reaction to the externalities of inequality, and the relationship between corruption and economic preferences.

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matiaslopez.uy@gmail.com
@MatiaslopezUy
Giovanni Matera

Giovanni Matera

Postdoctoral Researcher, French Red Cross Foundation
Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program (spring 2022-spring 2023); Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Human & Social Sciences, French School of Public Health.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2021-2023).

Research interests: Psychiatry and democracy, community context and mental health, hospitality, migration, sociology of valuation and evaluation.

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giovanni.matera@ehess.fr
Talia Shiff

Talia Shiff

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of Labor Studies, Tel Aviv University.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).
Lecturer in Sociology Department, Harvard University (2019-2021).

Research interests: Cultural sociology;,political sociology, sociology of law, asylum and immigration, gender, moral boundaries, evaluation and categorization.

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taliashiff@tauex.tau.ac.il
@Talia_Shiff
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Anna Skarpelis

Inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair of Sociology → Department of Sociology, CUNY Queens College
Digitalization Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Social Science Center; NOMIS Fellow, Center for the Theory and History of the Image, University of Basel (2021-2022).
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2018-2021).

Research interests: Racialized authoritarianism, subjectification and the transformation of large scale institutions (such as citizenship and the welfare state). 

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anna.skarpelis@wzb.eu
@akmskarpelis