I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University. My research seeks to understand what it means to be part of a national, political community, with a particular interest in the debates immigration raises in contemporary Western democracies about who ‘we’ are.

I am currently leading two research projects tackling this question from two different angles: The first project explores the role of moral political rhetoric in making immigration such a seemingly divisive issue in many Western democracies and is generously funded by a Sapere Aude Research Leader grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The second project, funded by a Nova grant from Aarhus University Research Foundation, examines whether citizenship is causally effective in improving immigrants’ integration. Previously, I have explored minority and majority youths' conceptions of politics and how national boundary-drawing affects first- and second-generation immigrants’ national belonging. Read more about these projects under Research.

I enjoy interdisciplinary exchanges and am a member of the Young Academy under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Learned Society of Aarhus University.