Curriculum Vitae Jan Mewes

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
Curriculum Vitae
-January 2012-
Jan Mewes, Dr.
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.
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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
Teaching
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)
Summer 2011 Statistik I, Tutorial, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology,
University of Bremen (2 hours per week, total: 24 hours)
Summer 2011 Netzwerkanalyse und Sozialkapitalforschung, Seminar, Bachelor
Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 hours in
total)
Summer 2010 Migration und Integration in Europa (with Steffen Mau). Seminar,
Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24
hours in total)
Summer 2007 Theorie und Empirie sozialstrukturellen Wandels. Tutorial, Bachelor
Sociology Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 hours in
total)
Winter 2005/2006 SPSS für Fortgeschrittene, Hauptseminar, Faculty of Sociology, University
of Bielefeld, Germany (24 hours in total)
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Additional Training
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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
Reviewer
Publications
Monograph
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)
Contemporary Sociology; European Political Science Review
European Sociological Review, International Journal of Comparative
Sociology
(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.
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(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)
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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)
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