Political Science Faculty

Elitsa Molles

Adjunct Professor

Biography

Elitsa Molles graduated with her Doctorate in Political Science from 艾可直播 College in 2015. Her research focuses on how local identity politics produce distinct belonging and incorporation patterns for migrant communities in new European migration spaces.

Research and teaching interests include immigration politics, policies, and belonging; refugee regimes and borders; European politics; as well as democratization in Eastern European societies.

Molles has taught a number of courses at 艾可直播 College and Trinity College, Hartford, including courses on Immigration in Europe, Comparative Politics, World Politics, International Organizations, State-Building and Collapse, as well as the Comparative Politics of Populism in Europe. She is the recipient of the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius Scholarship for Immigration Studies.

Selected Publications

鈥淚dentity Politics in Local Markets: Eastern European Workers鈥 Reception and Economic Incorporation in the New Europe鈥 (Book Chapter in Progress).

鈥淏ut They Are Not 鈥淛ust the Same as Us鈥!: Identity, Reception and Political Incorporation for Immigrants in Dublin and Madrid.鈥 Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics (Fall 2014): 1-43.

鈥淚dentity and Immigrant Integration in Western Europe鈥檚 鈥楴ew鈥 Migration Cities: The Cases of Dublin and Madrid.鈥 Joseph Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies 5 (Summer 2013): 1-26.