• MisMie

Our Team

Directors
  • Andreas Zick
  • Stephen Reicher
  • Arin H. Ayanian
  • Yaatsil Guevara González

National Teams

France

Andreea Gruev-Vintila is the national coordinator for France for the MisMIE project. She is Associate professor of psychology at the School for Social Sciences and Administration of the Université Paris-Nanterre, the Parisian Research Center for Social Psychology. She has a PhD in Psychology from the Université de Paris. Her research focuses on the social thinking in contemporary societies in circumstances that can lead to representational polarisation, and the extremization of affect and behavior (mobilisation nexuses): collective risks (environment and health), violent "radicalisation", sexism. This work has led her to a particular interest for the social psychological processes and impacts of violence: state violence (totalitarianism), terrorism, violence against women and children. Before MisMIE, she coordinated the XTREAMIS project (Xenophobia, Radicalization in Europe, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia) funded by the French National Research Agency. In 2019, she was an advisor for the French government’s national consultation on violence against women and children.

Caroline da Silva is PhD candidate in Social Psychology at University Paris-Nanterre. She works as research assistant at the Parisian Research Centre for Social Psychology (LAPPS - University Paris-Nanterre). She holds a Masters in Social Psychology: Management of Social and Environmental Threats  (University of Paris, former University Paris-Descartes, 2017). Prior to her PhD, she worked for two years as a social psychologist in a public social welfare centre in Brazil (2013-2015). Her research focuses on the membership misrecognition of Maghrebi-French with a social identity and social representational mixed method approach. Thus, she combines qualitative and quantitative methods: focus groups, correlational and experimental studies. For the MisMiE project, she conducted focus groups discussions on experiences of misrecognition among young French Muslim women who wear a headscarf.

Germany

Arin H. Ayanian is a post-doctoral research associate at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence in Bielefeld and a senior social consultant with the World Bank. At IKG, she coordinated the European research projects “Misrecognizing Minorities in Europe” and “Database and Assessment of Risks violent Extremists”, and now co-directs the project “Voices from the Past, Lessons for the future”. She has completed her Doctoral degree in social psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and her Masters degree in psychology at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Her research interests revolve around intergroup processes and conflict; identity, emotions, moral obligation, collective action and radicalization.
 

Marco Eden is currently pursuing his second bachelor’s degree in Political Sciences and Psychology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. In Bielefeld, he worked as research intern at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence and as research assistant at the department for Social Psychology. Marco’s main interests are group-focused enmity and identity theory (dynamics of in-group enhancement and out-group devaluation processes like prejudice, misrecognition and dehumanization). He is further interested in the connection of psychological and political research and specifically interrelations with and implications for modern neo-liberalism and social structure.

Johanna C. Gratzel holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her main fields of interest are social and peace psychology, with a specific focus on infra-, dehumanization and misrecognition of minorities. She is currently studying for her master’s degree in psychology at the University of Bielefeld. In addition, she works as a research assistant in the MisMiE team and volunteers as social media representative of the German network social psychology for refugees and integration.

Yaatsil Guevara González is PhD candidate in Sociology at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. She works as research fellow at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG-Bielefeld University). She studied Anthropology and holds a Masters in Regional Studies. Her research focuses on refugee and forced migration studies, gender studies, and anthropology of everyday life. She has also conducted research on radicalization, extremism and Muslim minorities. Her research combines different disciplinary approaches such as anthropology, sociology, area and gender studies. She has conducted ethnographic research in Mexico, Central America, U.S., and Germany. She mainly uses qualitative-participatory methodologies. She collaborated actively for several years in the migrant shelter “La 72-Hogar Refugio para personas migrantes”.

Slieman Halabi is a PhD student at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and the International Max Planck Research School on Adapting Behavior in a Fundamentally Uncertain World. Slieman graduated from Tel Aviv University where he studied cognitive psychology and worked for various NGOs as a group facilitator for dialogue between Israeli and Palestinians. Slieman is interesting intergroup relations and conflicts especially in issues related to passing and identity threats associated with it, intergroup criticism, loyalty, communication between groups etc. Slieman also conducts studies on the influence of accents and language on the acceptance of disadvantage group members. Slieman is working at the Institute for Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University and also teaches at the Humboldt University zu Berlin.

Hungary

Anna Kende is an associate professor in social psychology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She received her PhD in 2002. Her research focuses on the broad topic of intergroup relations, more specifically, she investigates the psychological underpinnings of social change both in the area of prejudice reduction and engagement in social movements. She has participated and coordinated several international research projects funded by the EU, national and international organizations, mostly concerning the situation of disadvantaged groups, and Roma people in particular. Her work covers both basic and applied research, which she has published in leading international journals. She has published 31 scientific papers in international journals, 5 book chapters in books by international publishers and numerous Hungarian journal articles and book chapters. She is the chair of the Department of Social Psychology, and she is a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Political Psychology and chairs the Scholars Under Threat committee.

Boglárka Nyúl is a PhD candidate in Psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She works as a junior researcher at the Department of Social Psychology. In her research she examines the role of rape myth acceptance and different situational factors in the evaluation of rape cases. She is also interested in prejudice and intergroup conflicts, especially attitudes toward Roma people. For the MisMiE project she coordinated the walkthrough interviews which focus on the daily experience of misrecognition among Roma people.

József Pántya is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He received his PhD in psychology in 2014 from the University of Debrecen, Hungary. His research focuses on the sense of fairness and its psychological impact, more specifically, he investigates the effects of social preferences and the perceived fairness of different social policies on social decisions, motivation, and behavior. He is also interested in the psychological consequences of social inequality for motivation and the efficiency of decision making. In a broader sense, his research interest is related to the social and economic psychological factors influencing different types of socially responsible attitudes and behavior (e.g., support for and compliance under different tax policies reflecting different approaches to social inequality).

The Netherlands

Judith de Jong is a PhD candidate at the department of political science, University of Amsterdam. Her PhD research focuses on how intersections of ethnicity and gender affect citizens collective assessments of political representation. Judith holds a bachelor in anthropology and a research master in social science. For the MisMIE project, she conducted interviews and focus groups on everyday experiences of misrecognition among Muslim students and journalists in the Netherlands.

Allard R. Feddes is an Assistant Professor at the Social Psychology Department of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has an MA in Social and Organizational Psychology (University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2004) and a PhD in Social Psychology (Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, 2007). He is generally interested in how group membership influences how we think (cognition), feel (emotion) and act (behavior). Currently his research focuses on the psychology of radicalization and terrorism, stereotyping and discrimination, hate crime, and populism.

Naomi R. J. van Bergen is a junior researcher at the Social Department of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a Research Master in Psychology (University of Amsterdam), with a focus on Developmental Psychology. Her main fields of interest are within Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Both the typical development of children and adolescents, as clinical psychopathology interest her. Currently, Naomi her research focuses on the psychology of radicalization, the experiences of minorities and creativity in children and adolescents.

Romania

Dr. Claudiu Ivan is a sociologist, senior researcher, project manager, coordinator, and policy analyst with over an extensive experience in designing, developing, and implementing studies on policies involving a wide range of public, private and non-governmental stakeholders. He has over fifteen years of professional experience of which more than five in education field related research with public and private research companies, and non-governmental organizations. His main research works and papers focused on topics such as social inclusion and education, evaluation and implementation of social programs, community needs assessment, migration, discrimination and gender equality, provision of quality education in early education. He has conducted research focused mainly on educational attainment of Roma children and other categories of vulnerable groups e.g. people with disadvantaged social background (mono-parental families, rural areas in Romania, children with disabilities, etc.). He has also an extensive experience in the elaboration of country reports or case studies on or related to educational system in Romania at all levels.

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Serbia

Vladimir Mihić is an associate professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. His PhD thesis, defended at the University of Belgrade, is closely related to the research of factors of ethnic, age and gender prejudice in Serbia. His primary research interests are in interethnic relations, especially in multiculticultar regions, like Vojvodina where he lives his whole life. He has been involved in several projects, both as coordinator and a member of a research group, dealing with the status and perception of Roma (especially, Roma children) in Serbia. The main topic of his current research is social identities in children attending bi-lingual schools, with the focus on different perception of ethnic identity, minority right and discrimination by the ethnic-majority and minority groups.

Tijana Karić holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She works as a research fellow at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade. Her main research interests are in the area of intergroup relations, especially peace and reconciliation. She is also studying marginalized groups (e.g. refugees, Roma, juvenile offenders) and relationships between majorities and minorities. In her research, Tijana combines qualitative and quantitative methods, and applies analyses novel to Social Psychology, such as network analysis. She is also involved in research for policymaking and analysing public policies for dealing with vulnerable groups.

United Kingdom

Nick Hopkins is Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee. He has a BA in Experimental Psychology, an MPhil in Criminology, and a PhD in Social Psychology. He has been an academic at the University of Dundee since 1989. He has research interests in group behaviour - especially the construction of social identities, the experience of mass gathering participation, and the experience of minorities.

Caoimhe Ryan is a Lecturer in Psychology at Glasgow Caledonian University. She was previously postdoctoral researcher on the MisMiE project at University of Dundee. Caoimhe has a PhD in Social Psychology from University of St Andrews, an MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology from LSE, and BA in Psychology from UCD. Her research interests include the social psychological factors affecting the welling of vulnerable and minority groups.

Partner

Hungary: Jeremy Braverman, Luca Váradi, Ádám Hushegyi (Central European University -CEU-)

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  • Carsten Duebbers (Cologne Police)
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