Univ. Doz. Dr. Rainer Bauböck
Curriculum Vitae

Rainer Bauböck is a political scientist and senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Science, Institute for European Integration Research. He is also vice-chair of the Commission for Migration and Integration Research at the Academy of Sciences.

From 1986 to 1999 he was assistant professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna. He teaches at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and is recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University Budapest in the Nationalism Studies Program. He has also held fellowships or guest professorships at Yale University (Orrick Visiting Senior Lecturer in spring 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 (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, Rainer Bauböck was awarded the Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation for his work on immigration and social cohesion in modern societies.

In January 2007 Rainer Bauböck he moved to the European University Institute in Florence, where he has been offered a chair in social and political theory.

His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights.

In 2004-2005 Rainer Bauböck was coordinator of NATAC, a project in the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union comparing the acquisition and loss of nationality in the EU-15 states.

His book publications in English include Transnational Citizenship. Membership and Rights in International Migration (Edward Elgar, Aldershot, 1994); The Acquisition and Loss of Nationality, 2 volumes, Amsterdam University Press (co-editor), Migration and Citizenship. Legal Status, Rights and Political Participation, Amsterdam University Press, 2006 (editor); Blurred Boundaries. Migration, Ethnicity, Citizenship (Ashgate: Aldershot, 1998) (co-editor); The Challenge of Diversity. Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration (Avebury, Aldershot, 1996) (co-editor); From Aliens to Citizens. Redefining the Legal Status of Immigrants in Europe (Avebury, Aldershot, 1994) (editor). He is also the author and editor of several books in German.

 

CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor for political and social theory, European University Institute, Florence

Senior researcher, Institute for European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Science (on leave)

Vice chair, Commission for Migration and Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Science

Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck, Departments of Political Science.

External faculty at the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest.

 

ACADEMIC DEGREES

Dr. phil. (April 1977): Dept. of Sociology, University of Vienna.
Dissertation: Housing Policy in Social-Democratic Vienna 1919 to 1934,
(published by Neugebauer, Salzburg, 1979).

Univ. Doz. (associate professor): (November 1995): Dept. of Political Science, University of Innsbruck.
Habilitationsschrift: Transnational Citizenship. Membership and Rights in International Migration, published by Edward Elgar, Aldershot, UK, 1994.

 

PRIZES

2006 European Latsis Prize of the European Science Foundation

 

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Coordination and researcher in a number of interdisciplinary projects on international migration, the legal status of immigrants, and social policy. Participant in several international research networks on citizenship and migration.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Seminars and series of lectures in political science at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna (1986-1999), University of Innsbruck (since 1990), University of Vienna (since 1992), Austrian Academy for Public Administration Vienna (1991–2000), University of Malmö (2000-2001), University of Bristol (2002), University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2003), Danube University Krems (2003-2004), Central European University, Budapest (2003-2006), Yale University (2005).

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GUEST PROFESSORSHIPS

2006 Research fellowship Rockefeller Foundation and German Marshall Fund, Migration Dialogue, Bellagio, Italy, June/July 2006.

2006 Guest professor at the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University Budapest. Course on “Multinational democracies”, February 2006

2005 Orrick Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics and the Political Science Department at Yale University, New Haven, USA, spring term 2005.

2004 Guest professor at the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University Budapest. Course on “Differentiated citizenship in the European Union”, February 2004

2003/04 Guest professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, winter semester 2003/04

2003 Program on “Universalism and Local Knowledge in Human Rights” at the Central European University Humanities Center, Budapest. April – June 2003

2003 PhD Programme in Political Science, seminar “Current Research in Democracy and Multiculturalism”, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, April 2003

2002/03 Guest professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, winter semester 2002/03

2002 Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, UK, May-July 2002.

2000/01 Willy Brandt Professor in International Migration and Ethnic Relations,
Malmö University, Sweden, September 2000 – February 2001.

1998/99 Fulbright Scholar and Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, New Jersey, September 1998 – June 1999.

1998/99 Honorary Fellow at the Center for Human Values, University of Princeton

1990/91 Erwin Schrödinger fellowship of the Austrian Science Foundation
at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, UK.

1978/79 teaching assistant (Auslandslektorat) at the departments of German and of West European Studies at the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland.

 

MEMBERSHIP AND FUNCTIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

membership:

American Political Science Association (APSA)
Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW)
Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS)

functions:

Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW):
general secretary 1984-1986
president 2003-2005

 

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS AND OTHER AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

since 1986 editorial board Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenchaft
(Austrian Journal of Political Science)

since 1991 editorial board Migration. A European Journal on International Migration and Ethnic Relations, Berlin.

since 1992 International Centre for Refugee Studies, Member York University, Toronto

since 1992 Network-Member European Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations University of Utrecht

1992 -1997 Consultant and European Centre for Social Welfare Research Affiliate Policy and Research, Vienna

since 1992 International Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Editorial Board (Previously: New Community. A Journal of Research and policy on ethnic relations

1994 - 2000 Expert committee Research programme on xenophobia, Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Transport

since 1997 Editorial Board Journal of Intercultural Studies

1999 - 2001 Coordinator of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Project Comparative Citizenship Working Group Working Group: Political Integration of Immigrants

since 1999 advisory board Austrian Forum for Migration Research, Vienna.

since 1999 Austrian Fulbright examination panel of Austrian Fulbright Commission Candidates

2001 Consultant European Forum Vienna: Project: Migration and Integration – Strategies for European big cities

2002/03 content coordinator 8th international Metropolis conference, 15-19 Sept. 2003, Vienna

since 2003 Board of Associates and Editors Journal of International Migration Integration

since 2003 Steering Committee Member International Organisation for Migration European Migration Network National Contact Point Austria

since 2003 Academic Advisory Board Österreichische Armutskonferenz

2004 Jury president Interkulturpreis der SPÖ Oberösterreich (Intercultural prize, donated by the Social Democratic Party of Upper Austria)

Forthcoming, current and recent research activities:

2007: partner in the Eurospheres project, an integrated project in the EU 6th framework programme, coordinated by the University of Bergen, Norway

2005 – 2008: The Second Generation in Europe, European Science Foundation Project, director of Austrian part of the project, funded by the Austrian Science Foundation.

2004-2005: NATAC: The Acquisition of Nationality in EU Member States, EU 6th framework programme, specific targeted research project, coordinator of European consortium

2004 – 2009: IMISCOE: International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, EU 6th framework programme, network of excellence, Austrian partner of consortium, cluster leader for thematic cluster: legal status, citizenship and political mobilization.

2003: GLOCALMIG: Migrants and Minorities, Belonging and Citizenship: Glocalization and Participation Dilemmas in the EU and small States. EU 5th framework project coordinated by Yngve Lithman (University of Bergen), Austrian partner of consortium.

2003: research area EMIS (European Migration and Integration Studies) established at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Director of research area.

2001 – 2003: Multicultural Citizenship: Theory and Practice, international project of the European Consortium for Political Research, coordinated by Tariq Modood (Univ. of Bristol and Adrian Favell (UCLA) (participant)

January 2000 – June 2003: research focus on the boundaries of political community, commissioned by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Sciences and Culture, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Research Unit on Institutional Change and European Integration (director and principal researcher)

January 1998 - June 2000: European Citizenship and the Social and Political Integration of the European Union, TSER Thematic Network, co-ordinated by Richard Bellamy, University of Reading, funded by the European Commission (participant)

June 1998 - December 2000: Comparative Citizenship Project of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (director of working group on political participation

June 1997 - July 1999: project: On a European Union as a Community of Citizens, funded by the Austrian Federal Chancellery (researcher)

January 1997 - November 1999: project: Legal Instruments for the Integration of Immigrants in comparative European perspective, funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Transport (researcher)

July 1997 – August 1999: project Democratic Legitimacy in Eastern Europe (director). Austrian Science Foundation (director)

Organiser of academic conferences and workshops

September 2006 Third Annual Conference on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe, Juridikum, Wien (together with Heinz Fassmann and Wiebke Sievers)

May/June 2006 European dynamics of citizenship. Public policies and migrant activities, Central European University Budapest, (together with Wiebke Sievers and Maria Kovacs).

Dezember 2003 Neue Projekte zur Migrationsforschung in Österreich
Arbeitsgruppe EMIS, Öst. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.

September 2003 8th International Metropolis Conference, Vienna. Content
coordinator

July 2003 Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich.
Ansätze, Schnittstellen, Kooperationen.
Interdisziplinärer Workshop, Arbeitsgruppe EMIS, Öst. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.

December 2001 International Workshop: European Identities: Constructions
and Conflicts. Austrian Academy of Sciences and Austrian
Diplomatic Academy

May 1997 Fundamental Rights in Europe. Austrian Civil Dialogue on Political and Social Rights in the European Union, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, sponsored by the Commission of the European Union (together with Josef Melchior).

June 1996 International conference: Blurred Boundaries. Living with Cultural Diversity. The Integration of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Liberal Democracies. European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research and University of Melbourne, Melbourne.

April 1995 Citizenship Beyond the Nation-State, European Consortium for Political Research, Joint Session of Workshops, Bordeaux

March 1995 International conference: Integration and Pluralism in Societies of Immigration, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research and Israeli Ministry of Labour, Jerusalem

November 1993 International conference: From Aliens to Citizens. Redefining the Legal Status of Immigrants in Europe, Institute for Advanced Studies and European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna

June 1987 Conference of the Austrian Political Science Association: Minderheitenpolitik, Dr. Karl Renner-Institut, Vienna

 

LANGUAGES

fluent in German and English
good active/passive knowledge of French
basic knowledge of Italian and Spanish