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

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

News

• September 2024: New paper published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. This paper shows that gender segregation is widespread among adolescents in Germany, but particularly so among Muslim youth. This difference is driven by Muslim youths’ stronger chastity norms, which complicate cross-gender friendships.
• August 2024: New paper published in Sex Roles on the influence cross-gender friends have on adolescents’ gender role attitudes and how this varies between boys and girls
• June 2024: I’m flattered and honoured to have received the Lorenz von Stein Award for the best dissertation at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim in 2023
• December 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.
• November 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
• November 2023: I have joined Nuffield College, University of Oxford, as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow