Aleksandra Sojka

Dr Aleksandra Sojka is Assistant Professor in European Politics and a Juan de la Cierva- Incorporación Fellow (2021-2024) at the Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M). She is the Principal Investigator of the project “Measuring European Socio-Political Integration through the Lens of Social Media: An Advanced Big Data Approach”, which obtained funding from the Community of Madrid (2022-2024), and she is a researcher in the international project “Value Conflicts in a Differentiated Europe: The Impact of Digital Media on Value Polarisation in Europe” (ValCon), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (2020-2024).

Before joining the department at UC3M in Madrid, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University (2016-2017). She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2018-2019). Since 2017, she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Identity.

Sojka’s principal research interests lie in the field of the political sociology of European integration and globalization. In her work, she focuses on political identities and attitudes towards the European Union and explores the role of public opinion and elite positions in the process of regional integration and globalization. She is also interested in the impact of transnational mobility on political attitudes and identities. Her research on these topics has appeared in top academic journals such as European Union Politics, South European Societies and Politics, Politics & Governance, and Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.

Dr Sojka’s academic experience is markedly interdisciplinary (international relations, ethnicity studies, political science, political sociology) and international. She studied in Poland and the Netherlands, defended her Ph.D. in Spain, and developed research visits in Hungary, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor of European Politics, University Carlos III in Spain, 2021 – Present

• Adjunct Professor of European Politics and Society, IE University, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Postdoctoral Fellow, University Carlos III in Spain, 2017 – 2021

• Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA, 2016 – 2017

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Universidad de Granada, Spain, 2015

• MA in Gender and Ethnicity Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2009

• BA and MA in International Relations, University of Lodz, Poland, 2007