Biographical Sketch

Christel Kesler holds a B.A. degree in sociology and German literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, and will join the sociology faculty at Barnard College, Columbia University upon completion of her fellowship.

Kesler's research interests include social stratification and inequality, international migration, welfare states, and cross-national research. She has recently completed a project that compares immigrant socioeconomic incorporation and exclusion in Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Other recent and ongoing projects examine immigration-driven diversity's effects on civic and political engagement in cross-national perspective; immigration and the dynamics of occupational segregation in the European Union; ethnic entrepreneurship across U.S. labour markets; and ethnic identification across immigrant generations in the U.K.