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Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Socio-Legal Studies, and Public & International Affairs, York University, Canada

Willem Maas, Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Public & International Affairs, and Socio-Legal Studies at York University, chaired Glendon Political Science for three and a half years, Glendon Faculty Council for four, and is also active in professional service, including currently chairing the CES Territorial Politics and Federalism RN, serving on the executive of IPSA's Migration and Citizenship RC, and remaining active in APSA's Migration and Citizenship section, which he co-founded.

Professor Maas has held appointments at Yale, NYU, Radboud, Leiden, EUI, and elsewhere, and writes on EU and multilevel citizenship, migration, borders, free movement, and politics focusing on Europe and North America. He co-edits the Oxford Studies in Migration and Citizenship book series and also heads the Canadian part of the Whole-COMM project, investigating the integration of migrants in small communities.

Experience

  • –present
    Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science, Socio-Legal Studies, and Public & International Affairs, York University, Canada

Education

  • 2004 
    Yale University, PhD
  • 2000 
    University of Oxford, Yale-Nuffield Exchange Fellow
  • 2000 
    Yale University, MPhil
  • 1999 
    Yale University, MA
  • 1998 
    Universiteit Leiden, Doctoraal (MA)
  • 1995 
    University of British Columbia, BA (double honours, Political Science and Geography)
  • 1994 
    Université Laval, Certificat en Science politique (Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award)