About
Prof. Matthias vom Hau is an associate professor at IBEI. He holds a PhD from Brown University and previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Manchester. He has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University and the Free University in Berlin. His research explores the intersections between identity politics, institutions, and development and has been published in leading journals such as Theory and Society, the American Journal of Sociology, Comparative Political Studies and Nations and Nationalism. In 2019, he received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant and is the Principal Investigator of the ETHNICGOODS project which examines variations in nation-building from a global perspective, and their causes and consequences.
Education
- PhD in Sociology, Brown University, 2007
- MA in Sociology, Brown University, 2001
- BA in Cultural Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, 1999