Anja Thomas

Anja Thomas is Associate Professor (Maîtresse de conférences) at the University of Lille and Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute (EUI). In the past, Anja was OxPo Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Max Weber Fellow at the EUI.

Her research focusses on the transformation of representative democracy. She works on members of parliament as main anchors of representation. Anja combines ethnographic work with systematic comparison.

During her joint agreement thesis between Sciences Po and the University of Cologne, Anja worked on the (dis)institutionalisation of European affairs control in the French Assemblée nationale and the German Bundestag. Her work draws on different bodies of literature, in particular comparative democracy studies and parliamentary sociology and the sociology of institutions.

Anja has taught and published widely on questions relating to parliamentary sociology and European integration in different academic communities and languages in Europe.

Her award-winning PhD was published with the German academic publishing house NOMOS: Assemblée nationale, Bundestag and the European Union. The micro-sociological causes of the European integration paradox (2019).

Her award-winning PhD was published with the German academic publishing house NOMOS: Assemblée nationale, Bundestag and the European Union. The micro-sociological causes of the European integration paradox (2019).