Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern. He is also a recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University in Budapest, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. He is a member of the Berlin-based Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration. He obtained his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and previously taught at the University of Southern California, European University Institute, University of British Columbia, International University Bremen, and American University of Paris.