| E-mail | soysal (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk) |
| Telephone | 3572 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number) |
| Fax | 3410 |
| Room | 5A.321 |
| Biography | Previously John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Centre for European Studies and the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. Has been German Marshall Fund Research Fellow, National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow, National Endowment of Humanities Research Fellow, Jean Monnet Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg Fellow, visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute, Berlin, and visiting professor at Juan March Institute, Madrid, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmo.
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| Qualifications | BA (Bogazici University Istanbul) PhD (Stanford, California)
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| Current research |
Soysal is currently involved in two research projects: a comparative and longitudinal study of the changing concepts of ‘good citizen’ and ‘good society’ in Europe and Asia (particularly China, Japan and Korea) and a comparative study of the ‘life course and self projections’ of the immigrant origin youth in European cities. She has had fundings from the Economic and Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, and Hong Kong Research Grant Council.
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| Research interests |
- Citizenship
- Nation-state and Globalization
- International Migrations
- Human Rights
- Education
- Regional Integration (Europe and East Asia)
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| Teaching responsibilities | Soysal's teaching includes courses on the nation-state and citizenship; immigration and human rights; European integration and globalization. She has served as the director of the MA in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights, the Human Rights Centre, and is currently co-director of the MA Migration and Citizenship.
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| Publications |
Soysal's publications include Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe (University of Chicago Press) andThe Nation, Europe and the World: Textbooks and Curricula in Transition (with H. Schissler, Berghahn Books), and articles in American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, Sociology of Education, European Societies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.
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| Additional information |
Yasemin Soysal is past-president of the European Sociology Association, and has served on the editorial boards of Citizenship Studies, Oxford Bibliographies Online, Multicultural Education Review, ASA Rose Book Series, Ethnic and Racial Studies and international advisory board of Ethnicities. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Advanced Study in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, and the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig.
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