Welcome! I am a sociologist and Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

My research interests are in the fields of gender and religion, intergroup relations, immigrant social and cultural integration, stereotyping and discrimination, social network analysis, and quantitative methods more generally. On this webpage, you find an overview of my publications and my CV.

I recently received my PhD from the University of Mannheim, with a thesis on the gendered nature of intergroup relations between Muslim and non-Muslim youth. If you’re interested, take a look at the thesis here.

News

• Dec 2023: New paper published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations, together with Kathrin Lämmermann and Lars Leszczensky. In the paper, we show that Muslim girls’ lesser involvement in interreligious friendships (compared to boys) can partially be explained by factors related to gendered religious norms – exactly those factors that are also responsible for Muslim girls’ lower levels of intergroup dating.
• Nov 2023: New comment published in American Journal of Sociology. The comment is a methodological critique of Smith et al.’s 2016 paper on Ethnic Composition and Friendship Segregation: Differential Effects for Adolescent Natives and Immigrants. Also take a look at Smith et al.’s reply
• Nov 2023: I have joined Nuffield College, University of Oxford, as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow