Curriculum Vitae -January 2012- Jan Mewes, Dr. Contact Department of Sociology Umeå University SE-90187 Sweden Email: jan.mewes@soc.umu.se Phone: +46 90 786-56 52 Fax: +46 90 786-55 60 Current Position since 011/2011 COFAS Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (jointly funded by FAS, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and the European Commission, Marie Curie COFUND programme), Department of Sociology, Umeå University Higher Education 19-08-2009 PhD, (Degree: Dr. rer. pol), University of Bremen 11-08-2009 Defence of the doctoral thesis: Ungleiche Netzwerke Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status [Unequal networks - networked inequality: How social class affects personal relationships] Supervisors: Prof. Steffen Mau (Bremen) and Prof. Johannes Huinink (Bremen). 2005 Diplom in sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany 2000-2005 Studies in sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany Research Interests Professional Experience Social Stratification; Social Networks; Social Capital; Migration; Welfare Research, Quantitative Methods; Comparative Research 01/2009-10/2011 Postdoctoral researcher, project: Ethnic Diversity and Welfare State Solidarity (funded by the German Research Foundation and the European Science Foundation, University of Bremen, Principal Investigator: Prof. Steffen Mau); part of the EUROCORES European collaborative research
programme Welfare Attitudes in a Changing Europe (international coordination: Prof. Stefan Svallfors, Umeå University, Sweden) 10/2005-10/2008 Doctoral researcher, project Transnationalization of Social Relations (funded by the German Research Foundation), Principal Investigator: Prof. Steffen Mau, University of Bremen 2002-2005 Student assistant (tutor) in the field of quantitative methods, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld 2001-2002 Student assistant in the GLOBALIFE-project (project supervision: Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld), University of Bielefeld Research Grants COFAS Marie Curie Postdoctoral Incoming Fellowship, Project: Social Class, Job Strain, and Informal Social Capital: A Cross-National Perspective [grant number 2011-0019]. Jointly funded by FAS, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and the European Commission (Marie Curie COFUND programme). Duration: 11/2011-10/2013 2000k SEK (approx. 220.000 Euro) (-- declined --) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Project: Social Inequality, Job Strain and Informal Social Capital: A Cross-National Perspective, Swedish Research Council [grant number 2011-695], 1716k SEK (approx.. 180000 Euro) Teaching Summer 2011 Summer 2011 Summer 2010 Summer 2007 Winter 2005/2006 Statistik I, Tutorial, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (2 hours per week, total: 24 hours) Netzwerkanalyse und Sozialkapitalforschung, Seminar, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 hours in total) Migration und Integration in Europa (with Steffen Mau). Seminar, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 hours in total) Theorie und Empirie sozialstrukturellen Wandels. Tutorial, Bachelor Sociology Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 hours in total) SPSS für Fortgeschrittene, Hauptseminar, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany (24 hours in total) 2
Additional Training 2009 Multilevel Analysis: Concepts and Applications, Essex Summer School in Social Sciences, Essex University (UK) (35 hours). Lecturer: Prof. Kelvyn Jones (Bristol)[certificate of attendance attached] 2009 Advanced Academic Writing. University of Bremen (16 hours) 2006 Didactic seminar: Shaping up teaching designing academic lessons according to learning needs, Universität Bremen/ Graduate School of Social Sciences (16 hours) Supervised works Daniel Keßler: Medien und die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung: Empirische Untersuchung einer sozialen Bewegung im Spiegel der Medien. M.A. thesis, University of Bremen, 2010 (second supervisor) Elsa Lenk: Highly Skilled Labour Migration. (B.A. thesis, University of Bremen, 2010. (second supervisor) Reviewer Contemporary Sociology; European Political Science Review European Sociological Review, International Journal of Comparative Sociology Publications Monograph (2010): Ungleiche Netzwerke Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (Reihe Netzwerkforschung), 230 pages Articles in Refereed Journals (2012) What Determines Subjective Socio-Economic Insecurity? Context and Class in Comparative Perspective (with Steffen Mau and Nadine M. Schöneck), in: Socio- Economic Review (forthcoming, accepted for publication). (2011) Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective: What Drives Cross- Border Interactions Within the European Union? (with Steffen Mau) in: European Societies. (ifirst content, doi 10.1080/14616696.2011.638083) (2011) Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit: Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive (with Steffen Mau and Nadine M. Schöneck), in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 21(2): 175-202. (2008) Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices? (with Steffen Mau and Ann Zimmermann), in: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 8(1): 1-24. 3
(2008) Diesseits und jenseits nationaler Grenzen. Intergruppenkontakte und xenophile Einstellungen (with Steffen Mau and Ann Zimmermann), in: Swiss Journal of Sociology 34(3): 507-531. (2007) Transnationale soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der deutschen Bevölkerung (with Steffen Mau), in: Soziale Welt 58(2): 203-222. Chapters in Edited Volumes (*peer reviewed) *(2012) Unraveling Working Class Welfare Chauvinism (with Steffen Mau), in Stefan Svallfors (ed.): Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford: Stanford University Press (forthcoming). (2010) Horizontale Europäisierung und Identifikation mit Europa (with Steffen Mau), in: Hans-Georg Soeffner (Ed.): Unsichere Zeiten: Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008. Wiesbaden: VS. (2009) Die räumlichen Grenzen persönlicher Netzwerke, in: Roger Häußling (Ed.): Grenzen von Netzwerken. Wiesbaden: VS, 33-53. (2009) Class divides within transnationalisation the German population and its crossborder practices, in: Ohnmacht, Timo, Hanja Maksim & Max Bergman (Eds.): Mobilities and Inequality. Aldershot: Ashgate, 165-186. (2008): Ungleiche Transnationalisierung? Zur gruppen-spezifischen Einbindung in transnationale Interaktionen (with Steffen Mau), in: Peter A. Berger/ Anja Weiß (Eds.) Transnationalisierung sozialer Ungleichheit. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 259-282. Presentations Boundaries of Solidarity: Unravelling Working Class Welfare Chauvinism. HumVIB Final Conference "Understanding European Diversity: Cross-National Analysis of Human Values, Attitudes and Behaviour", Berlin, September 8-10, 2011. Advantages and Disadvantages of Bayesian Modeling in Comparative Research. 4 th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). Lausanne, 18-22 July 2011. Ungleiche Netzwerke Vernetzte Ungleichheit. Bielefeld Lectures on Social Stratification. University of Bielefeld, 18 April 2011. (invited lecture) Determinanten transnationaler Netzwerke in Europa: Eine komparative Mehrebenenanalyse grenzüberschreitender sozialer Beziehungen. Transnationale Netzwerke: Theorien, Modelle und empirische Analysen, 35. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Frankfurt a. M (Germany), October 11-15 2010. (with Steffen Mau) 4
Opportunity Structures Revisited: Combining Affect Theory of Social Exchange and Focus Theory. XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC 35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis - 'The Concept, Use and Theory of Networks'. Gothenburg, July 11-17 2010. Immigration, Globalization and Support for the Inclusion of Foreigners. 17 th International Conference of Europeanists. Montreal (Canada), April 15-17 2010. (with Steffen Mau) Horizontale Europäisierung und europäische Identität Eine empirische Spurensuche. Ad-Hoc Gruppe 44: "Europäische Integration: Interdependenzen von politischer Steuerung und gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung." 34. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. University of Jena (Germany), October 6-10 2008. (with Steffen Mau) Grenzenlos oder ortsgebunden? Die informellen Netzwerke der deutschen Bevölkerung. Frühjahrstagung der 'Arbeitsgruppe Netzwerkforschung', ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), May 15-16 2008. The social structure of non-migrant transnationalism Cross-border mobility and transnational social relations of the German population. 4th Cosmobilities Network Meeting: "Mobilities, Space, and Social Inequality". University of Basel (Switzerland), September 7-8 2007. (with Steffen Mau) Cosmopolitanism through transnationalism? Conference: "The Communicative Construction of Transnational Political Spaces and Times". University of Bielefeld (Germany), April 27-29 2007. (with Steffen Mau) 5