Rebecca Adler-Nissen
Professor, Deputy Head of Centre, Professor
Department of Political Science
Øster Farimagsgade 5, Building: 18-2-18
1014 København K
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Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen.
Her research and teaching focuses on international relations theory (especially international political sociology, sovereignty, stigma, status, recognition, norms and practice theory), diplomacy, digital technologies, tech policy and regulation as well as European integration. Her research often combines anthropological and computational methods.
Rebecca Adler-Nissen leads the research group Digital Sovereignty, funded by the VELUX Foundation. She has previosly led the ERC-project DIPLOFACE. She was co-PI of the HOPE-project and PI of the research group Digital Disinformation. She has received numerous prizes, including the Distinguished Scholar prize from the Diplomatic Studies section of the International Studies Association, the Elite Research Award from the Danish Ministry of Education and Research, the Nils Klim Prize and the silver medal from The Royal Danish Academy for Sciences and Letters.
Rebecca Adler-Nissen has been a visiting research fellow at the Centre for International Security Studies (University of Sydney), Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (McGill University/Université de Montréal) and the European University Institute in Florence. She is former Head of Section in the Department of European Policy, at the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously, Rebecca has been project manager at the Confederation of Danish Industry and research analyst at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).
Office hours: Thursdays 11.30-12.30
Supervision of PhD students
Current: Anna Helene Kvist Møller (with Anders Blok, Nicklas Johansen (with Andreas Bjerre), Mathilde Bro Hansen.
Completed: Alexei Tsinovoi (2018), Michael Bossetta (2019), Mareike Hartmann (with Anders Søgaard) (2019) Yevgeniy Golovchenko (2020), Øyvind Svendsen (2020), Larissa Versloot (2023)
Research related activities
- Member of the Danish Government's Expert Group on Tech Giants (2022-)
- Member of the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board (2020-2024)
- Member of the Board of the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
- Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2017-)
- Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) (2015-)
- Member of The Young Academy, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2012-2017)
- Secretary-Treasurer of the International Political Sociology Section of the ISA (2010-2014)
- Member of the steering committee of Center of European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (https://www.cep.polsci.ku.dk/)
- Board member of NISA (Nordic International Studies Association)
- Board member of ECSA (Denmark) (http://www.ecsa.dk/web/)
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Symbolic Power in European Diplomacy: The Struggle Between National Foreign Services and the EU's External Action Service
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Stigma Management in International Relations: Transgressive Identities, Norms and Order in International Society
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A Sociology of Knowledge Approach to European Integration: Four Analytical Principles
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