Curriculum Vitae Laura Morales
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CURRICULUM VITAE LAURA MORALES PERSONAL INFORMATION Name: Laura MORALES Date and place of birth: Dec./5/1973, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) CONTACT INFORMATION Prof Laura Morales Sciences Po E-mail: [email protected] Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée Tel (office): (+33) (0) 145 49 56 21 Office A204 28 Rue des Saints-Pères 75007 Paris, France SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE PRESENCE DETAILS Twitter: @lauramdu (approx. 1,240 followers) Web: https://sciences-po.academia.edu/LauraMorales (top 3% in Academia.edu by page views) ORCID number: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6688-6508 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=hSwX2p4AAAAJ&hl=en Open data site: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse.xhtml?alias=LauraMoralesProjects EDUCATION Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), Department of Political Science Ph.D. in Political Science, 14 May 2004 (Magna cum Laude and Honourable Mention of “European Doctor”). Dissertation title: Institutions, Mobilisation and Political Participation: Political Membership in Western Countries. Supervisor: Prof. José Ramón Montero (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Juan March Institute). Examining committee: Prof. Eva Anduiza (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Prof. Joan Font (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), Prof. Hanspeter Kriesi (University of Zurich), Prof. José María Maravall (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Juan March Institute), Prof. Mariano Torcal (Universidad Pompeu Fabra). Dissertation awarded two prizes (see section on Awards). London School of Economics and Political Science, Methodology Institute (United Kingdom) MSc in Social Research Methods (Statistics), September 2000 (with Distinction). Center for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Juan March Institute (Madrid, Spain). MA in Social Sciences, September 1998 (only pass/fail system, not graded). Courses in Political Sociology, Political Science, Political Economy, and Research Methods by Spanish and International scholars such as Prof. José María Maravall (Univ. Complutense), Prof. Vincent Wright (Univ. Oxford), Prof. José Ramón Montero (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid), Prof. Nikiforos Diamandouros (Univ. Athens), Prof. Gøsta Esping-Andersen (Univ. Pompeu Fabra), Prof. Adam Przeworski (NYU), Prof. Steven Rosenstone (Univ. Minnesota), Prof. Guillermo O’Donnell (Univ. Notre Dame), and Prof. 1 Wolfgang Merkel (Univ. Heidelberg). Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology 5-years BA Degree in Political Science and Sociology, June 1996 (with Merits+: 2.97 grade in scale 0-4), major in Political Science and Government, minor in Political Sociology. EMPLOYMENT Academic Positions Sciences Po (France), 1st October 2017 - Currently. Full Professor /Professeure in Political Science, Centre d'Études européennes and Department of Political Science. University of Leicester (UK), 1st April 2014 – 30th September 2017. Professor (Personal Chair/Full Professor) in Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations. University of Leicester (UK), 16th May 2011 – 31st March 2014. Reader in Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations. University of Manchester (UK), September 2007-15th May 2011. Research Fellow (grade 7 of the research track, equivalent to Lecturer B in the British teaching track), Institute for Social Change. Affiliated with Politics for Research Evaluation purposes. University of Murcia (Spain), 2003- August 2007. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), 2003. Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology IV-Methods of Research and Communication Theory. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain), 2001-2003. Associate Lecturer, Department of Political Science and International Relations. University of Essex (United Kingdom), 6-17 August 2001. Teaching Fellow, Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, course Multivariate Statistics Applied to Politics. Other Academic Appointments Sciences Po Grenoble Visiting Professor, IEP, Sciences Po, Grenoble, 20 October-20 December 2014. Harvard-Manchester Exchange Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 15 October-30 November 2009. Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, April 2006-March 2007. Visiting researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Research of the University of Amsterdam, carrying out doctoral research with a Huygens scholarship, September 2000-February 2001. Visiting researcher at the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS) of the University of Essex with a grant from the EU Commission’s Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Programme, to carry out research on The Gender Gap in Electoral Behaviour in Europe, 5 July-20 August 1999. Visiting researcher at the Centre d’études de la vie politique française (CEVIPOF), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Paris, March 1999. 2 Visiting researcher at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Florence carrying out doctoral research, October 1998-June 1999. Visiting researcher at the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS) of the University of Essex with a grant from the EU Commission’s Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) Programme, to carry out research on The Gender Gap in Electoral Behaviour. The European Elections of 1989 and 1994, 19 July – 18 August 1997. Policy Advisory and Consultancy Appointments Expert on contract for ‘Providing advice on the methodologies for designing, implementing and monitoring a survey of asylum seekers’, European Asylum Support Office, January-February 2016. Expert for the Expert Group on ‘Trust at Risk’, European Commission DG Research and Innovation, September 2014-May 2015. Expert advisor for the EU-MIDIS II survey of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, January 2015. Expert on migrants’ civic engagement for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Organisation for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), September-November 2009. Speaker and rapporteur for the Forum for the Future of Democracy, Council of Europe, Sweden, June 2007. Consultant, RISC International (Paris), report on social trends in Spain 2002. Country expert, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, coding of Spanish electoral party manifestos for the 1996 and 2000 general elections (Comparative Manifestos Project). AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2014 Sciences Po Grenoble Visiting Professorship Award, granted for a research visit of 2 months at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, 20 October-20 December. 2009 Harvard-Manchester Exchange Programme Fellowship granted for a research visit of 6 weeks at Harvard University, 15 October-30 November. 2009 British Political Studies Association Overseas Travel Grant to attend the IPSA World Congress in Santiago de Chile (£ 750). 2009 British Academy Overseas Conference Grant to attend the IPSA World Congress in Santiago de Chile (£ 700). 2006 Fulbright/MEC postdoctoral fellowship, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and the Fulbright Commission, Department of Political Science, Columbia University, April 2006-March 2007. 2005 European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Ph.D. Thesis Prize to the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Political Science awarded in 2004 in any full ECPR member institution (more than 300 in Europe). 2005 Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA) Ph.D. dissertation award to the best thesis in the field of Political Science awarded in 2004 in any Spanish university. 2000 Huygens scholarship granted by the Dutch Government for a research stay in the Netherlands, 2000-2001. Postgraduate scholarship granted by The British Council and La Caixa for the completion of an MSc in Social Research Methods at the LSE in the United Kingdom, 1999-2000. Postgraduate scholarship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences (CEACS), Juan 3 March Institute, October 1996-September 1999, and October 2000-September 2001. Research Scholarship in the Department of Sociology I -Social Change, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, October 1995- September1996. RESEARCH SUBFIELDS AND INTERESTS Comparative politics: Political institutions, governmental responsiveness and public opinion Comparative political behaviour and political organisations (both cross-national and focusing on the Spanish case): Associational involvement, social capital, and political participation Electoral behaviour Social movements Political parties The gender gap in political behaviour Migrant/Ethnic studies (both comparative and focusing on the Spanish case): Local policies on migration/ethnic issues Local democracy and political participation of migrant/ethnic minorities Organisational networks and social capital of migrant/ethnic minorities Survey design and methods 4 PUBLICATIONS PUBLICATIONS IN ENGLISH Books and Special Issues of Journals 2017 (forthcoming) L. Morales & T. Saalfeld (Eds), Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in Europe. [Edited volume, consisting of 15 chapters resulting from the Pathways project, pre-contract signed with Oxford University Press in October 2016. Expected completion, Spring 2017.] 2017 (forthcoming) L. Morales, T. Saalfeld & M. Sobolewska (Eds), Understanding the Patterns of Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin