Politicized Ethnicity: A Comparative Perspective

About Anaïd FleskenAnke WeberWesley Hiers

Anke Weber holds a PhD in political science from the University of Zurich Switzerland and has worked for the World Bank the JRC - European Commission and Eurostat. She conducted extensive field work in Kenya and Tanzania and taught in Rwanda. Her research focuses on political salience of ethnicity relations between ethnic diversity and education in Africa and comparative indicators.Wesley Hiers holds a PhD from UCLA USA. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh USA from 2013 to 2015 and is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oberlin College USA. His research interests lie at the intersection of political sociology historical sociology and race/ethnicity. Anaïd Flesken holds a PhD from the University of Exeter UK. She was a postdoctoral researcher at GIGA Hamburg Germany supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation before taking up an ESRC Fellowship at the University of Bristol UK. Her principal research interest lies in the interplay between political and social processes in ethnically diverse societies.