Dr. Susanne Wessendorf, 2008-2010, 2011-2014

Susanne Wessendorf is now Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Susanne Wessendorf was a postdoctoral research fellow, working on patterns of 'super-diversity' in a London neighbourhood. She holds a DPhil in Social Anthropology from Oxford University. Her thesis focused on the interrelationship of integration and transnationalism among second-generation Italians in Switzerland. She has an MPhil degree in Social Anthropology, European Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Basle, Switzerland, and has been an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Berne, Switzerland.

Her research interests include urban diversity and intersections of multiple differences, social relations in urban contexts, transnationalism and the second generation.

Research projects:

• Backlash against multiculturalism? European discourses, policies and practices (completed) (with Steven Vertovec)

  Social relations in super-diverse London (completed)