A. K. M. Skarpelis

Postdoctoral fellow
The Berlin Social Science Center

Anna is a cultural and comparative-historical sociologist applying qualitative and computational methods in her research on racialized authoritarianism, subjectification and the transformation of large scale institutions (such as citizenship and the welfare state). She is currently a digital postdoctoral fellow at MIT, the Migration, Integration, Transnationalization Research Group at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). In 2021-22, she is also the NOMIS fellow at eikones - Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University, where she co-organized Michèle Lamont’s Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion. She received her Ph.D. from the department of sociology at New York University under the supervision of Jeff Manza, Craig Calhoun, David Garland, Ann Morning and Sheldon Garon.

Research themes: Culture and comparative history, Racialized authoritarianism, Subjectification and the transformation of large scale institutions