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Adjunct Professor
McGuinn Hall Room 106H
Email: elitsa.v.molles@bc.edu
MW 10-11am (Virtually) and by appointment
Elitsa Molles graduated with her Doctorate in Political Science from Boston 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 Boston 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.
“Identity Politics in Local Markets: Eastern European Workers’ Reception and Economic Incorporation in the New Europe” (Book Chapter in Progress).
“But They Are Not “Just the Same as Us”!: Identity, Reception and Political Incorporation for Immigrants in Dublin and Madrid.” Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics (Fall 2014): 1-43.
“Identity and Immigrant Integration in Western Europe’s ‘New’ Migration Cities: The Cases of Dublin and Madrid.” Joseph Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies 5 (Summer 2013): 1-26.