Nora Waitkus
Assistant Professor of Sociology
I am a sociologist interested in socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies.
In my research, I focus on exploring and explaining cross-national variation and the institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration. I am further studying class, housing inequalities, economic elites, and redistribution using e.g., survey experiments and (comparative) household (panel) data.
My work has been featured in leading journals of the field, such as American Sociological Review, Sociology, Socius, amongst others. I further publish in journals outside of Sociology (e.g., Feminist Economics, Social Justice Research). For my work on comparative inequality, I have received the RC28 Significant Scholarship Award as well as the Aleida Hagenaars Memorial Award.
Currently, I work as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tilburg University (NL) and an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute (III) at LSE (UK). Before this, I was a Postdoc at the III, a Research associate at SOCIUM Bremen (DE), and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (US).
I hold a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bremen as well as a M.A. in Political Science (Freie Universität Berlin) and a B.A. in Political Science (University of Hamburg).
Current Projects
Varieties of Wealth (VENI project, funded by NWO)
Wealth Conflicts within Families (TiU Starting Grant with K. Ivanova)
Education
PhD in Sociology, University of Bremen (2019)
M.A. in Political Science, Freie Universität zu Berlin (2013)
B.A. in Political Science, University of Hamburg (2010)