Dr. Elke Winter

Biography

Elke Winter is a Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa. Her research examines the relationship between social inequality, boundary construction, and pluralist inclusion in ethnically diverse societies. She authored 'Max Weber et les relations ethniques. Du refus du biologisme racial à l’État multinational' (PUL 2004) and was awarded the Canadian Sociology Association’s John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award for her book 'Pluralism, National Identity and Diverse Societies' (UTP 2011). She co-edited volumes such as 'States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation Discontents' (Routledge 2020) and 'La Citoyenneté au temps de ‘l’intégration civique’: regards croisés France/Canada' (REMI 2020). Winter has received research prizes and fellowships from the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists, the University of Konstanz’s Institute for Advanced Study, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and Harvard University. She supervises MA and PhD projects in the fields of nationalism, migration, and racial and ethnic diversity, and currently serves on PhD supervisory committees in Canada, Germany, and the United States.

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