Rebecca Adler-Nissen
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20032024

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Personal profile

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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

CV

  • Professor, Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2016-)
  • Visiting Fellow, CISS, University of Sydney (2015)
  • Associate Professor, Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2013-2016)
  • Visiting Scholar, CIPSS, McGill University, Montreal (2012)
  • Head of Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (2010-2011)
  • PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2009)
  • Research Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies (2008)
  • Visiting Researcher, European University Institute, Florence (2007)
  • Project Manager, DI, Confederation of Danish Industry (2005)
  • Msc, Department of Political Science, Uni of Copenhagen (2005)
  • Cycle de diplome, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris (2002-2003)
  • BA, Department of Political Science, Uni of Copenhagen (2002)

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • EU
  • Diplomacy
  • Brexit
  • EU foreign policy
  • Euro
  • Strategy
  • Political sociology
  • practice
  • practice theory
  • Pierre Bourdieu
  • Erving Goffman
  • United Kingdom
  • social media
  • disinformation
  • Fieldwork
  • differentiated integration
  • opt-out
  • Justice and Home Affairs
  • misinformation
  • digital technology
  • International Relations (IR)
  • sovereignty
  • negotations
  • recognition
  • status

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