Members
The Religion, Europskepticism and the Media research group is formed by several scholars from different European universities. Principal investigator of the project is Prof. dr. Claes H. de Vreese.
Prof. dr. Claes H. de Vreese (personal website), full CV in PDF
Claes H. de Vreese, PhD (University of Amsterdam), [c.h.devreese@uva.nl] is Professor and Chair of Political Communication and Scientific Director of The Amsterdam School of Communications Research ASCoR in the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. He is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include comparative journalism research, the effects of news, public opinion and European integration, effects of information and campaigning on elections, referendums and direct democracy.
Prof. Dr. Michael Minkenberg (personal website), full CV in PDF
Michael Minkenberg, PhD (University of Heidelberg) is Professor of political science at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany and currently holds the Max Weber Chair for European Studies at New York University. His research expertise includes right-wing radicalism, religion and politics in Western democracies, political behavior and public opinion. He is the author or editor of more than 10 volumes and he has published dozens of articles in international and German reviewed journals, including West European Politics, Comparative European Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and German Politics and Society.
Dr. Sara Hobolt (personal website)
Sara Binzer Hobolt, PhD (University of Cambridge), [sara.hobolt@politics.ox.ac.uk] is Lecturer in Comparative European Politics at the Department of Political and International Relations, and a Fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She is also a member of the Centre for Research Methods in the Social Sciences and the Programme Manager of the ESRC Oxford Spring School. Her research interests include comparative European politics, European integration, effects of information and campaigning on public opinion formation and voting behaviour, and direct democracy.
Dr. Andre Freire (personal website)
André Freire, Ph.D. (Social Sciences Research Institute of the University of Lisbon: ICS-UL), [andre.freire@iscte.pt] is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the Higher Institute of Social Sciences and Business Studies (ISCTE), Lisbon, Portugal. He is also a senior researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-ISCTE) in Lisbon, and associate senior researcher at the ICS-UL. His research interests focus on electoral behaviour, left-right orientations, electoral systems, party systems and political elites (especially MPs).
Prof. Dr. Wouter van der Brug (personal website)
Wouter van der Brug, PhD (University of Amsterdam), [w.vanderbrug@uva.nl] has a Chair in Political Science at the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He received prizes for the best Masters thesis (in 1993) and best doctoral thesis (in 1998) in political science in the Netherlands. His work has been published in various international peer reviewed journals, such as Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, Political Behavior, Party Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, West European Politics, and Acta Politica. He recently co-authored The Economy and the Vote with Cees van der Eijk and Mark Franklin (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and he co-edited European Elections and Domestic Politics with Cees van der Eijk (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).
Dr. Sara Silvestri (personal website), affiliate researcher
Sara Silvestri [ss384@cam.ac.uk] received her PhD (on Muslim politics in the EU) from Cambridge University, where she also held an ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Centre of International Studies during 2006. Having taught Political Islam and International Relations at Bristol University, in September 2006 she joined the School of Social Sciences at City University (London) as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Politics, with responsibility for teaching courses on Religion & Politics, the European Union, and IR Theory. She has published widely on Islam and religious affairs in Europe and is currently preparing a monograph on the challenges that Islam poses to Europe. Her research interests also include migration, identity politics and Euro-Mediterranean relations.
Dr. Hajo Boomgaarden (personal website), href=”http:www.rem-norface.org/wp- content/uploads/hajoboomgaarden_curriculumvitae.pdf”> full CV in PDF
Hajo G. Boomgaarden, Ph.D. (University of Amsterdam), [h.boomgaarden@uva.nl] is Assistant Professor of political communication at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on political communication effects on political attitudes and behavior. He recently completed his dissertation on the role of news media in dynamics of ethnic prejudice. He has published on matters of media and European integration, European and German election campaigning, and media, immigration issues and extreme-right parties.
Malte Hinrichsen, MA, MSc (personal website)
Malte Carlos Hinrichsen [m.c.hinrichsen@uva.nl] is a PhD student in political communication at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research, Department of Communication Science, University of Amsterdam and teaches at the Department of Journalism and Communication Research, University of Music and Drama Hanover. He will write his PhD thesis within the project, concentrating on the media portrayal of religious groups and its effects on political attitudes towards the European integration process. He has published on developments in foreign news coverage and lobbying in the EU.
