Marc Helbling

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Marc Helbling is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and a Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) where he was head of the Emmy-Noether research group ‚Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC). He was a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University and at the Centre for European Studies at New York University. Helbling’s research is dedicated to immigration and citizenship policies, nationalism, xenophobia/islamophobia, the accommodation of Islam and right-wing populism in Europe. He was an elected member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and received the 2011 Young Scholar Research Award from the Mayor of Berlin.