Curriculum Vitae -February 2013- Dr. Jan Mewes Contact Department of Sociology Umeå University SE-90187 Sweden Email: jan.mewes@soc.umu.se Phone: +46 90 786-56 52 Fax: +46 90 786-55 60 Current Position since 11/2011 COFAS Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Umeå University Higher Education 19-08-2009 Doctorate in Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany 11-08-2009 Defence of the doctoral thesis: Ungleiche Netzwerke Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status [Unequal networks - networked inequality: How social class affects personal relationships] Supervisors: Prof. Steffen Mau (Bremen) and Prof. Johannes Huinink (Bremen). 2005 Diplom in sociology (M.A. equivalent), University of Bielefeld, Germany Passed with distinction 2000-2005 Studies in sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany Research Interests Professional Experience Comparative Research; Migration; Welfare Attitudes, Transnationalism; Multilevel Modelling; Social Stratification; Social Capital 01/2009-10/2011 Postdoctoral researcher, project: Ethnic Diversity and Welfare State Solidarity (funded by the German Research Foundation and the European Science Foundation, grant number MA3282-3/1, part of the HumVIB EUROCORES European collaborative research programme Welfare
Attitudes in a Changing Europe, international coordination: Prof. Stefan Svallfors, Umeå University Principal Investigator: Prof. Steffen Mau, University of Bremen 10/2005-10/2008 Doctoral researcher, project Transnationalisation of Social Relations (funded by the German Research Foundation, grant numbers MA3282-2/1 & MA3282-2/2), Principal Investigator: Prof. Steffen Mau, University of Bremen 2002-2005 Student assistant (tutor) in the field of quantitative methods, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld 2001-2002 Student assistant in the GLOBALIFE-project (project supervision: Prof. Hans-Peter Blossfeld), University of Bielefeld Grants and Awards Research fellowship COFAS Marie Curie Postdoctoral Incoming Fellowship, Project: Social Class, Job Strain, and Informal Social Capital: A Cross-National Perspective [grant number 2011-0019]. Scientist in charge: Prof. Stefan Svallfors. Jointly funded by FAS (the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research) and the European Commission within the 7 th framework Marie Curie COFUND programme. Duration: 11/2011-10/2014 2.986.798 Swedish Crowns (approx. 350.000 EUR; 304.000 GBP) Conference grant The Future of Welfare State Studies, International Postdoctoral Conference, 15-17 May 2013, Umeå. Co-Applicants: Maureen Eger, Jana Javornik, Joakim Kulin and Ingemar Johansson Sevä (Umeå University). Funded by the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds (RJ), grant number F12-1645:1. 300.000 Swedish Crowns (approx. 35.000 EUR; 30.600 GBP). Teaching Autumn 2012 Summer 2011 Guest lecture, Welfare States and the Challenges of Migration, M.A. course Comparative Social Policy, Umeå University (2 contact hours) Statistics I, Tutorial, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (2 contact hours per week, total: 24 contact hours) 2
Summer 2011 Summer 2010 Summer 2007 Winter 2005/2006 Social Networks and Social Capital, Seminar, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 contact hours in total) Migration and Integration in Europe (with Steffen Mau). Seminar, Bachelor Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 contact hours in total) Socio-structural Change. Tutorial, Bachelor Sociology Department of Sociology, University of Bremen (24 contact hours in total) SPSS for Advanced Learners, M.A. seminar, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany (24 hours in total) Additional Training 2009 Multilevel Analysis: Concepts and Applications, Essex Summer School in Social Sciences, Essex University (UK) (35 hours). Lecturer: Prof. Kelvyn Jones (Bristol) 2006 Didactic seminar: Shaping up teaching designing academic lessons according to learning needs, University of Bremen/Graduate School of Social Sciences (GSSS)(16 hours) Supervised student works and oral exams Professional Service Daniel Keßler: Medien und die Anti-Atomkraft-Bewegung: Empirische Untersuchung einer sozialen Bewegung im Spiegel der Medien. M.A. thesis, University of Bremen, 2010 (second supervisor) Elsa Lenk: Highly Skilled Labour Migration. (B.A. thesis, University of Bremen, 2010. (second supervisor) Several oral exams, M.A. students, University of Bremen 2010/01-2011/09 Adjunct teaching staff representative, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen 2009/09-2011/09 Member of the M.A. examination board, Department of Sociology, University of Bremen Reviewer For refereed journals Contemporary Sociology; European Political Science Review; European Sociological Review; Governance; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Journal of Civil Society; West European Politics 3
Professional Memberships ESPAnet (European Network for Social Policy Analysis) European Survey Research Association (ESRA) German Sociological Association Publications Monograph Mewes, Jan (2010): Ungleiche Netzwerke Vernetzte Ungleichheit: Persönliche Beziehungen im Kontext von Bildung und Status ( Unequal networks - networked inequality: How social class affects the structure of personal communities ). Articles in Refereed Journals Wiesbaden: VS Verlag (Series: Netzwerkforschung ), 230 pages Mau, Steffen, Jan Mewes and Nadine M. Schöneck (2012) What Determines Subjective Socio-Economic Insecurity? Context and Class in Comparative Perspective, in: Socio-Economic Review 10(4): 655-682. Mau, Steffen and Jan Mewes (2012) Horizontal Europeanisation in Contextual Perspective: What Drives Cross-Border Interactions Within the European Union?, in: European Societies 14(1): 7-34. Mau, Steffen, Jan Mewes and Nadine M. Schöneck (2011) Die Produktion sozialer Sicherheit: Beschäftigungssicherheit, Einkommenssicherung und gesundheitliche Versorgung in ländervergleichender Perspektive, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 21(2): 175-202. Mau, Steffen, Jan Mewes and Ann Zimmermann (2008) Cosmopolitan attitudes through transnational social practices?, in: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs 8(1): 1-24. Mau, Steffen, Jan Mewes and Ann Zimmermann (2008) Diesseits und jenseits nationaler Grenzen. Intergruppenkontakte und xenophile Einstellungen, in: Swiss Journal of Sociology 34(3): 507-531. Mau, Steffen and Jan Mewes (2007) Transnationale soziale Beziehungen. Eine Kartographie der deutschen Bevölkerung, in: Soziale Welt 58(2): 203-222. Chapters in Edited Volumes (* peer-reviewed) *Mewes, Jan and Steffen Mau (2012) Unraveling Working Class Welfare Chauvinism (with Steffen Mau), in Stefan Svallfors (ed.): Contested Welfare States: Welfare Attitudes in Europe and Beyond. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 119-157. 4
Mau, Steffen and Jan Mewes (2010) Horizontale Europäisierung und Identifikation mit Europa, in: Hans-Georg Soeffner (Ed.): Unsichere Zeiten: Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Verhandlungen des 34. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Jena 2008. Wiesbaden: VS. Mewes, Jan (2009) Die räumlichen Grenzen persönlicher Netzwerke, in: Roger Häußling (Ed.): Grenzen von Netzwerken. Wiesbaden: VS, 33-53. *Mau, Steffen and Jan Mewes (2009) Class divides within transnationalisation the German population and its cross-border practices, in: Ohnmacht, Timo, Hanja Maksim & Max Bergman (Eds.): Mobilities and Inequality. Aldershot: Ashgate, 165-186. Mau, Steffen and Jan Mewes (2008): Ungleiche Transnationalisierung? Zur gruppenspezifischen Einbindung in transnationale Interaktionen, in: Peter A. Berger/ Anja Weiß (Eds.) Transnationalisierung sozialer Ungleichheit. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 259-282. Review Mewes, Jan (2012): Hasmath, Reza (Hrsg.), 2011: Managing Ethnic Diversity: Meanings and Practices from an International Perspective,,Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, in: Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 41(4): 494-495. Conference Presentations (selected) Working Conditions, Social Class, and Informal Social Capital: Multilevel Evidence from the European Social Survey 2010. ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference Economic Change, Quality of Life, and Social Cohesion, Stockholm University, Stockholm, September 24-26 2012. What Makes People Feel Insecure?, (with Steffen Mau and Nadine M. Schöneck), Max Planck/Science Po Conference Coping With Instability in Market Societies, Paris, December 15-16 2011. Boundaries of Solidarity: Unravelling Working Class Welfare Chauvinism, HumVIB Final Conference "Understanding European Diversity: Cross-National Analysis of Human Values, Attitudes and Behaviour", Berlin, September 8-10, 2011. Advantages and Disadvantages of Bayesian Multinomial Multilevel Modeling in Comparative Research, 4 th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA). Lausanne, July 18-22 2011. Opportunity Structures Revisited: Combining Affect Theory of Social Exchange and Focus Theory, 17th ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC 35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis - 'The Concept, Use and Theory of Networks'. Gothenburg, July 11-17 2010. The social structure of non-migrant transnationalism Cross-border mobility and transnational social relations of the German population (with Steffen Mau), 4th Cosmobilities Network Meeting: "Mobilities, Space, and Social Inequality". University of Basel (Switzerland), September 7-8 2007. 5
Cosmopolitanism through transnationalism? (with Steffen Mau) Conference: "The Communicative Construction of Transnational Political Spaces and Times". University of Bielefeld (Germany), April 27-29 2007. 6