Robert Braun, Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, Cornell University, USA
Mr. Braun combines archival research with statistics to investigate ethnic conflict and collective action. His dissertation project aims to explain the differential survival rates of Jews in the Low Countries during World War II. He combines registration lists with deportation lists, which enables him to determine who ended up in a deportation camp and who did not. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation, Cornell’s Einaudi Center for European Studies, the American Association for Netherlandic Studies and the Council for European Studies.
Mr. Braun’s earlier research projects have been published in the Journal of Peace Research, Mobilization, European Sociological Review, International Sociology and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology. In addition, they have been awarded with an honorable mention for the Elise Boulding Graduate Paper Competition of the Peace, War and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association 2011, an honorable mention for the Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award ECPR 2011 and the Unilever Research Award for talented Dutch scientists.