Sociologist & Professor
Elke Winter is a sociologist and a full professor at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa. Conducting research in the fields of nationalism, migration, asylum/refugees, as well as racial and ethnic diversity, she wrote Max Weber et les relations ethniques. Du refus du biologisme racial à l’État multinational (PUL 2004), won the Canadian Sociology Association’s John Porter Tradition of Excellence Award for Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies (UTP 2011), and co-edited When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and Its Discontents (Routledge 2020) with Emilien Fargues and Matthew Gibney. Recent writings include edited special issues of The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2024) assessing the contribution of immigration to the formation of the national middle-class and of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (2023) on the pluralist inclusion of immigrants in polarized societies.
Education
Elke Winter received her BA from the Free University Berlin, her MA from the University of Montreal and her PhD. from York University, Toronto. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and Queen’s University, Ontario.
Honours
Elke Winter is an alumna of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Royal Society of Canada’s New Scholars’ College, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has held prestigious fellowships at the University of Paris Diderot, the ENS Lyon, the Universities of Bielefeld, Heidelberg, and Constance, as well as at Stanford and Harvard University.
Leadership
Elke Winter was Director of Research at uOttawa’s CIRCEM and William Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Studies. She organized over fifty workshops and conferences and directed numerous edited volumes. She currently chairs uOttawa’s doctoral program in Sociology.
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