Jef Huysmans

Jef Huysmans

University of London

EISA Portfolio: Early Career Research Development

Jef Huysmans is Professor of International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. He co-convenes the research cluster Doing International Political Sociology. As Board member of the EISA he is responsible for developing an Early Career Researchers Development portfolio, organizing the Early Career Researchers Workshops for PEC, and liaising on the Olympia Summer Academy.

He is best known for his work on the politics of insecurity, the securitization of migration, critical methods, and international political sociology. Currently he is working on security and democracy in times of surveillance, the political life of methods, the political significance of the everyday, and fracturing worlds.

Website: http://www.politics.qmul.ac.uk/staff/profiles/huysmansjef.html

Doing International Political Sociology: http://www.doingips.com