VASILIKI FOUKA

Stanford University [email protected] Department of Political Science https://people.stanford.edu/vfouka/ Encina Hall West 311 616 Serra Street Stanford, CA 94305

Employment 2015 – Stanford University Assistant Professor of Political Science

Education 2011 – 2015 Universitat Pompeu Fabra PhD in Economics, “Essays on the Economics of Culture and Identity”

2013 – 2014 Harvard University Visiting PhD Student in Economics

2010 – 2011 Universitat Pompeu Fabra MRes in Economics

2009 – 2010 Barcelona Graduate School of Economics MSc in Economics

2004 – 2008 Athens University of Economics and Business BSc in International and European Economic Studies

Academic Affiliations Faculty Affiliate The Europe Center, FSI, Stanford University, 2017– External Research Fellow Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, 2016–

Faculty Affiliate Stanford Center for International Development, 2016–

Visiting Scholar Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance, 2016

Faculty Affiliate Immigration Policy Lab, Stanford University, 2015–

Research Fields Cultural Economics, Immigration, Political Economy, Economic History

1 Working Papers “Backlash: The Unintended Effects of Language Prohibition in US Schools after World War I”

“Reprisals Remembered: German-Greek Conflict and Car Sales during the Euro Crisis” (with Hans- Joachim Voth)

“Agricultural Returns to Labor and the Origins of Work Ethics” (with Alain Schlaepfer)

“How do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US during World War I”

“Family history and attitudes toward outgroups: Evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis” (with Elias Dinas)

Conferences and Invited Seminars

2018: LSE Historical Political Economy Conference, LSE Political Science and Political Econ- omy Research Seminar, Durham NERD Workshop, Yale American and Comparative Political Behavior Workshop, Paris School of Economics Conference on Cultural Trans- mission and the Economics of Cultural Change, UC Irvine Conference on Identity, Co- operation and Conflict 2017: Oxford Nuffield College Politics Seminar, ASREC (Boston), UC Berkeley Comparative Politics Colloquium, Ohio State University Comparative Politics Workshop, NBER Eco- nomics of Culture and Institutions Meeting (Discussant), Asian Meeting of the Econo- metric Society (Hong Kong), NICEP, Annual Conference of the Association for Pub- lic Economic Theory (Paris), NBER Political Economy SI (Discussant), APSA Annual Meeting, 2017 EHA Meeting (Discussant), University of Michigan workshop on Historical Legacies and Memory, Columbia Political Economy Seminar, UZH Workshop on Origins and Consequences of Group Identities 2016 : UC Berkeley Economic History Seminar, Stanford Economic History Seminar, LSE Labour Seminar, IIES Stockholm, Stanford Workshop on Approaches to Data Scarcity in Ancient History, UC Berkeley CPD Working Group 2015: BGSE Summer Forum (Barcelona), 2015 EHA Meeting (Nashville), UC Davis Economic History Seminar, Berkeley Haas Political Economy Seminar 2014: Vanderbilt Economic History Workshop, Northwestern Workshop in Economic History, EEA–ESEM (Toulouse), NEWEPS-3 (NYU), UPF Labor, Public and Development Breakfast, Stanford Comparative Politics Workshop, CAS–LMU Workshop on The Long Shadow of History, SAEe (Palma de Mallorca) 2013: UPF Student Seminar (Barcelona), 12th Conference of Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics [CRETE] (Naxos), Harvard Economic History Tea 2012: 7th End-of-Year Conference of Swiss Economists Abroad (Lucerne)

2 Fellowships and grants

2017 Russell Sage Foundation Program on Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Presidential Award for the project “From Immigrants to Americans: Race, Status and Assimilation during the Great Migration” (with Shom Mazumder and Marco Tabellini) 2017 – 2018 Hellman Faculty Scholar 2017 IRiSS Faculty Seed Grant, Stanford University 2017 – 2018 Faculty Research Fellow, Clayman Institute, Stanford University 2016 – 2017 Faculty Fellow, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Stanford University 2016 SEED-FSI GDP Grant, Stanford University 2013 UPF EBES Grant, held at Harvard University 2012 UPF EBES Grant, held at PUC – Rio de Janeiro 2010 – 2011 UPF Teaching Assistant Scholarship 2009 – 2010 Postgraduate Studies Scholarship, Greek State Scholarships Foundation 2004 Undergraduate Studies Scholarship, Greek State Scholarships Foundation

Teaching

2017 – 2018 Immigration and Multiculturalism (undegraduate lecture), Stanford 2017 – 2018, Political Culture (undergraduate and graduate seminar), Stanford 2016 – 2017 2016 – 2017 Causal Inference (graduate sequence in political methodology), Stanford 2015 – 2016 Comparative Political Economy (graduate seminar), Stanford 2010 – 2011 Statistics, UPF, Teaching assistant 2010 – 2011 Law and Economics, UPF, Teaching assistant

Professional service Referee for American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Sci- ence Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Economic Journal, Journal of Economic History, European Re- view of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Economic Development and Cultural Change

Languages Greek (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (good), French (basic), Catalan (basic)

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