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Prof. Juan Díez Medrano

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Department of Economic History and Institutions

E-Mail: juan.diez@uc3m.es

Short CV

Juan Díez Medrano is a Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de Barcelona and Coordinator of the Research Program "Institutions and Networks in a Globalized World" at IBEI (Instituto Barcelona de Relaciones Internacionales). He earned his PhD. at the University of Michigan (1989) and was formerly employed by the University of California, San Diego (1989-2003) and the International University Bremen (2003-2004). In Winter of 2006 he was the holder of the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Divided Nations (Cornell University Press, 1995), Framing Europe (Princeton University Press, 2003), and articles published in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Theory and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Comparative European Politics among others. He has also presented numerous papers at conferences organized by the American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Council for European Studies (USA), European Union Studies Association, and Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Over the years he has received numerous grants and fellowships, in Spain, the United States, and Germany. Among them, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship (1995). He has also been a Visiting Scholar at ZUMA (Mannheim, Germany) and the WZB (Berlin, Germany). Other former professional activities include work as Program Specialist (P-3) for UNESCO. Also, as a staff member of the Spanish public opinion survey institute ASEP he has participated in the ISSP study. He is currently working on a comparative study among Western trade unions in the United States, Great Britain, France, Austria, and Germany, that focuses on their contrasting reactions to free trade agreements with less developed countries.

Juan Díez Madrano has been a visiting researcher at KFG from June to December 2009. His main focus of research has been on the societal impacts of European Integration and the distinction of globalization and European integration effects.

Curriculum Vitae

Main fields of interest

• European Integration
• Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism
• Economic Sociology
  
  

Recent publications

• 2011: "Uninformed Citizens and Support for Free Trade" (with Michale Braun). In: Reveiw of International Political Economy (forthcoming).
• 2011: "The Present and Future of Social Classes. In: Favell, Adrian/Guiraudon, Virgine (eds.): The Sociology of the European Union, Oxford: Palgrave McMillan.

• 2010: "The Public Sphere, Public Opinion and Europe's Political Identity". In: Nicolaïdis, Kalypso/Lacroix, Justine (eds.): European Stories. Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 315-333.

• 2010: "Framing the European Union in National Public Spheres" (with Emily Gray). In: Statham, Paul/Koopmans, Ruud (eds.): The Making of a European Public Sphere, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 195-219.

• 2010: "Unpacking European Identity". In: Politique Européenne (30): 45-66.

• 2010: "A New Society in the Making: European Integration and European Social Groups". In: KFG Working Paper Series (12), March 2010, Freie Universität Berlin.

•  2010: "Divergent Reactions to Globalization: Labor Unions and the NAFTA and EU Enlargement Process". In: IBEI Working Papers (2010/30), October 2010, Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internationals.

• 2008: "The public sphere and the European Union's political identity". In: Katzenstein, Peter/Checkel, Jeffery (eds.): European Identity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 81-108.
• 2008: with Mabel Berezin. "Distance Matters: Place, Political Legitimacy, and Popular Support for European Integration”.
• 2006: “Is the West Becoming more Tolerant” (with Nina Rother). In: Ester, Peter/Mohler, Peter/Braun, Michael (eds.): Globalization, Value Change, and Generations, Leiden/Boston: Brill.