Christian Georg Maximilian Joppke

Christian Joppke is Professor of Sociology in the Political Science Department of LUISS University, Rome. Previously he taught at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), European University Institute (Florence), University of British Columbia (Vancouver), International University Bremen, American University of Paris, and the University of Bern, where he held the chair in general sociology from 2010 to 2025. He also held honorary and visiting professorships at Aarhus University, Central European University (Budapest), Interdisciplinary Center (IDC, Herzliya), and SciencesPo (Paris), as well as research and visiting fellowships at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), the Russell Sage Foundation (New York), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. He has been a member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR) between 2015 and 2020. Joppke studied at the Free University of Berlin, University of Frankfurt (where he was a doctoral student of Jürgen Habermas), and holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989). Specializing in comparative political sociology, he has written widely and influentially on social movements, immigration, citizenship, multiculturalism, religion, nationalism, and more recently on populism and (neo)liberalism. His latest books are Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right (Cambridge University Press 2021) and Political Neoliberalism: Order and Rupture (Oxford University Press 2025).