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Overview

Andreas Wimmer is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work spans primarily the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Political Science and International Relations, Education, and Development. They have published extensively in these areas, contributing to a broad array of scholarly discussions.

Wimmer's recent research outputs include the following papers:

  • Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation-state building, migration and the social sciences (2021) published in Sociology of power
  • Domains of Diffusion: How Culture and Institutions Travel around the World and with What Consequences (2021) published in American Journal of Sociology
  • Exchange on the quantitative measurement of ethnic and national identity (2021) published in Nations and Nationalism
  • When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools (2021) published in European Sociological Review
  • Consent and Legitimacy: A Revised Bellicose Theory of State-Building with Evidence from around the World, 1500-2000 (2023) published in World Politics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yuval Feinstein
  • Nina Glick Schiller
  • Daniel Bochsler
  • Elliott Green
  • Erin K. Jenne

Wimmer has published repeatedly in prominent venues such as:

  • Nations and Nationalism
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • American Journal of Sociology
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Sociology of power

The main topics addressed in Wimmer's scholarly work include:

  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • International Development and Aid
  • Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology

Wimmer's body of work showcases an engagement with complex social processes such as nation-state building, cultural diffusion, ethnic and national identities, and the intersections of ethnicity and gender in educational settings. Their scholarship contributes to understanding the social dynamics influencing governance, migration, and integration, as well as the cultural and institutional factors shaping societies.

Best Publications

  • Methodological Nationalism and Beyond: Nation-State Building, Migration and the Social Sciences

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Methodological Nationalism, the Social Sciences, and the Study of Migration: An Essay in Historical Epistemology

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries: A Multilevel Process Theory 1

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel?: New Data and Analysis

    Lars Erik Cederman;Andreas Wimmer;Brian Min

  • Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com

    Kevin Lewis;Jason Kaufman;Marco Gonzalez;Andreas Wimmer

  • Ethnic Politics and Armed Conflict: A Configurational Analysis of a New Global Data Set

    Andreas Wimmer;Lars Erik Cederman;Brian Min

  • Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Beyond and below racial homophily: ERG models of a friendship network documented on Facebook.

    Andreas Wimmer;Kevin Lewis

  • Elementary strategies of ethnic boundary making

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Methodological nationalism and the study of migration

    Andreas Wimmer;Nina Glick Schiller

  • Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time : Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset

    Julian Wucherpfennig;Nils B. Weidmann;Luc Girardin;Lars-Erik Cederman

  • Explaining xenophobia and racism: A critical review of current research approaches

    Andreas Wimmer

  • The Rise of the Nation-State across the World, 1816 to 2001

    Andreas Wimmer;Yuval Feinstein

  • Who Owns the State? Understanding Ethnic Conflict in Post-Colonial Societies

    Andreas Wimmer

  • From Empire to Nation-State: Explaining Wars in the Modern World, 1816–2001

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  • Herder's Heritage and the Boundary-Making Approach: Studying Ethnicity in Immigrant Societies*

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Does ethnicity matter? Everyday group formation in three Swiss immigrant neighbourhoods

    Andreas Wimmer

  • DEMOCRACY AND ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN IRAQ

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Nation Building: Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart

    Andreas Wimmer

  • Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Theoretical explorations

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Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Glick Schiller
Nina Glick Schiller Max Planck Society
Nicholas A. Christakis
Nicholas A. Christakis Yale University
Gerard Delanty
Gerard Delanty University of Sussex
Nils B. Weidmann
Nils B. Weidmann University of Konstanz
Indra de Soysa
Indra de Soysa Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Eric P. Kaufmann
Eric P. Kaufmann Birkbeck, University of London

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