I am a Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University. My research seeks to understand what it means to be part of a national, political community. 

To answer this question, I study the political and cultural forces that define who ‘we’ are and create boundaries of belonging. For instance, I analyse political discourse, citizenship policies, societal norms, and popular conceptions of membership and their consequences for different types of individuals. Much of my prior work has revolved around immigration and national belonging. Over the coming years, I am leading a project on youth and political marginalization across dimensions of gender, class, and ethnic minority/majority status.

I use a variety of methods crossing the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, such as computational and in-depth qualitative text analysis, survey experiments, and qualitative interviews. On this site, you can read about my research, see an overview of my scholarly publications, check out my recent media contributions, or find information about my public talks.

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