Professor of Social and Political Theory
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 230/233
Fax: [+39] 055 4685 201
Email: Rainer.Baubock@eui.eu
Secretary: Monika Rzemieniecka
Office: BF 183, Badia Fiesolana
EUI SPS Department
Via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
Italy
Office Hours
Tuesdays, 9-11. Please make an appointment by email or with my secretary
Rainer Bauböck holds a chair in social and political theory at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute. He is on leave from the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he is also vice-chair of the Academy’s Commission for Migration and Integration Research. .
From 1986 to 1999 Rainer Bauböck was a researcher and associate professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. He has taught regularly at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and is a recurrent visiting professor at Central European University Budapest.
He was also a visiting academic at the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation (June-July 2006), at Yale University (Jan-May 2005), the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2003), the University of Bristol (April-June 2002), University of Malmö (September 2000-February 2001); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Princeton University (September 1998-June 1999); and the University of Warwick (1990-91).
In 2003-2005, Rainer Bauböck was president of the Austrian Association of Political Science. In November 2006, he was awarded the Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation for his work on immigration and social cohesion in modern societies. of the European Science Foundation for his work on immigration and social cohesion in modern societies.
fluent in German and English
good passive knowledge of French
basic knowledge of Italian and Spanish
Normative Political Theory and Comparative Research on Democratic Citizenship, European Integration, Migration, Nationalism and Minority Rights
Seminar: Accomodation of Cultural Diversity in Liberal Societies: Law and Political Theory, Autumn 2010 (together with Ruth Rubio Martin (EUI Law Department)
Workshop: Global Justice and Migration: Normative prespectives and empirical trends, 23-24 April, 2010
Seminar: Debating Citizenship: Historical and Contemporary Controversies about Membership, Rights and Self-Government, (together with M. Van Gelderen), Winter 2010
Workshop: How to study nationalism? (together with Michael Keating), 25 November, 2009
Seminar: Nationalism in Theory and Practice (together with Michael Keating), Autumn 2009
Seminar taught at Vienna University: Migration and Transnational citizenship, Autumn 2009
Workshop: Interrogating the Intersection between Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood, 9 June, 2009, (co-organized with Jaime Lluch (Max Weber Visiting Fellow), and Ruth Rubio Martin (EUI Law Department)
Conference: Matching Context and Capacity: The Economic Integration of Immigrants, 11-12 June 2009
Seminar: Comparing Citizenship Regimes, Winter 2009
Seminar: Migration in Normative Political Theory, Autumn 2008
Workshop: Should and does race or ethnic orignin count in fighting discrimination? 11-12 June 2008
Conference: Diaspora and Transnationalism. Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Challenges, 10-11 April 2008
Seminar: Research design and qualitative methods (together with Donatella della Porta, Fritz Kratochwil and Pascal Vennesson), Winter 2008
Seminar: Towards a European identity (together with Martin Kohli), Winter 2008
Seminar: Theories of Nationalism, Autumn 2007
Workshop: Political Transnationalism. Mobilizing and participating in different polities: Empirical Research Strategies and Normative Implications, 4-5 June, 2007 (co-organized with Virginie Guiraudon)
Workshop: The International Politics of Diversity, 23-24 May, 2007 (co-organized with Virginie Guiraudon)
Seminar: Theories of Citizenship: Problems of Membership and Political Boundaries (Winter 2007)
Rainer Bauböck coordinates a Migration Working Group at the EUI Robert Schuman Centre. The MWG is a multidisciplinary working group open for researchers, fellows and faculty from all EUI departments and the wider Florentine academic community with an interest in migration related topics.
EUDO CITIZENSHIP: Together with co-director Jo Shaw (University of Edinburgh) Rainer Bauböck coordinates the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship. This website offers the most comprehensive data base and research platform on citizenship laws and policies in all EU member states and neighbouring countries. This observatory is nested within EUDO (European Union Democracy Observatory), a major web platform hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre of the EUI. EUDO CITIZENSHIP extends and updates the results of the NATAC project described below. Financial support for building this website has been provided by the EUCITAC project sponsored by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals and the CITMODES|project of the British Academy.
This observatory will be nested within EUDO (European Union Democracy Observatory), a major web platform hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre of the EUI. EUCITAC extends and updates the results of the NATAC project described below. The citizenship observatory project is also supported by the CITMODES project of the British Academy.
NATAC: From summer 2004 to the end of 2005 an international network of researchers has analysed the rules and practices regulating the acquisition and loss of nationality in the fifteen 'old' EU Member States. The results of this EU-funded project with the acronym NATAC (The Acquisition of Nationality in EU Member States: Rules, Practices and Quantitative Developments) are published in two volumes by Amsterdam University Press. Book Information and Order Forms
Data and some comparative analyses from this project are also freely available.
Open NATAC project page
IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe)
IMISCOE is a Network of Excellence funded by the EU 6th framework programme that brings together some 400 selected, highly qualified researchers of 22 established European research institutes. They implement an integrated, multidisciplinary, rigorously comparative research programme on migration, integration and social cohesion, with Europe as its central focus. Rainer Bauböck coordinates a Research Cluster on Migration and citizenship: legal status, mobilisation and political participation.