Associate Professor Alin M. Ceobanu (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has taught at the University of Florida since 2004, having also served as a member of the CES faculty for 15 years. He is a political sociologist and a scholar of migration, whose work is interdisciplinary and comparative. Ceobanu’s main line of research explores cross nationally micro- and macro-level determinants of attitudes towards immigrants and immigration, as expressed by the national publics of Europe. His work also examines immigrant deservingness and integration, comparative citizenship regimes and migration policies, popular support and preference for democracy, demographic attitudes, and national and ethnic identities in European countries. Ceobanu’s sole- and co-authored work has appeared in leading sociological and interdisciplinary journals, as well as in high-impact collaborative volumes, like The Handbook of Citizenship and Migration Studies, The International Handbook of Migration Studies, or The Handbook of Migration, Ethnicity and Diversity. At the University of Florida, he has offered a total of eight courses, including “Immigrants and the Politics of Immigration in Europe” (graduate), “Nationalism and Ethnicity in Europe,” and “Culture and Identity in Europe” (both undergraduate). For the AY 2024-2025, he has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholarship.