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Dr Nora Waitkus

Dr Nora Waitkus

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

Email
N.M.Waitkus@lse.ac.uk
Room No
CBG 4.10
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Languages
English, French, German
Key Expertise
Inequality, Socio-economic stratification

About me

Nora Waitkus is a sociologist interested in socio-economic stratification in contemporary capitalist societies. In her research she focuses on exploring and explaining cross-national variation and the institutional drivers of wealth inequality and concentration. Her work further deals with class, housing, elites, public opinion, and wealth accumulation using survey experiments and longitudinal analysis. She is further interested in cultural processes in the reproduction of inequality, such as media coverage on the super-rich.

Nora’s work has been published in American Sociological Review, Sociology, Socius, Feminist Economics, among others. In 2023, Nora was awarded the VENI grant by the Dutch Research Council to extend her research on cross-country differences in wealth and assets. She also received the RC28 Significant Scholarship and the Aleida Hagenaars Memorial Award for her comparative inequality work.

Before joining LSE International Inequalities Institute, Nora has worked at the Research Centre on Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM) at the University of Bremen. She has earned degrees from the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin. Prior to joining LSE, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bremen and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 2021, Nora is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University (The Netherlands).

Expertise Details

Inequality; Socio-economic stratification

Publications

Waitkus, Nora, Mike Savage and Maren Toft (2024). “Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion” Sociology.

Schechtl , Manuel and Nora Waitkus (2024). “Where Income becomes Wealth: How Redistribution moderates the Association between Income and Wealth” Socius, 10: 1-13.

Waitkus, Nora  (2023). Ungleicher Besitz. Perspektiven einer klassensoziologischen Untersuchung von Vermögen. Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 33(1), 99-135.

Lierse, Hanna, Patrick Sachweh and Nora Waitkus (ed.) (2022).“Wealth, Inequality and Redistribution in Capitalist Societies” Social Justice Research, 35(4): 367-378.

Waitkus, Nora and Stefan Wallaschek (2022). “Wealthy Business Owners and the Legitimization of Inequality in the Press” Social Justice Research, 35(4): 404-435.

Waitkus, Nora, and Lara Minkus. 2021. "Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap across Occupational Classes." Feminist Economics, 27(4): 114-47.

Pfeffer, Fabian T. and Nora Waitkus. “The Wealth Inequality of Nations” American Sociological Review, 84(4): 567–602.

Savage, Mike and Nora Waitkus (2021). “Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer” British Journal of Sociology, 72: 39–51.

Pfeffer, Fabian and Nora Waitkus (2021). “Comparing Child Wealth Inequality across Countries” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 7(3): 28–49.

Waitkus, Nora and Olaf Groh-Samberg (2019). “The Space of Economic and Cultural Capital: A Latent Class Analysis for Germany. Blasius, J. et al. (ed.): Empirical Investigations of Social Space. Springer: 81-97.

Waitkus, Nora and Olaf Groh-Samberg (2018). “Beyond Meritocracy: Wealth Accumulation in the German Upper Classes.” Korsnes, O. et al. (ed.): New Directions in Elite Studies. Routledge: 198-220.

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