Marc Helbling

Marc Helbling is full professor in political sociology at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and a senior researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where his completed projects include leading the Emmy Noether junior research group Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC).

His research fields include immigration and citizenship politics, nationalism, xenophobia/islamophobia. His work has appeared among others in Comparative Political Studies, Electoral Studies, European Sociological Review, European Journal of Political Research, International Migration Review, Political Studies, Social Forces and West European Politics. He has edited a volume on “Islamophobia in the West” (Routledge) and co-authored a book with Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande et al. on “Political Conflict in Western Europe” (Cambridge UP).

He studied political science at the University of Lausanne and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and holds a PhD from the University of Zurich. He was a guest researcher at Princeton, Harvard and New York University and spent shorter research stays at the European University Institute in Florence, at Oxford University, the University of Sydney and at McGill University.

Webpage: www.marc-helbling.ch