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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, elites, and wealth accumulation using quantitative approaches and longitudinal data. She forms part of a team studying the German Power Elite and further investigates the legitimisation of vast fortunes in the media.

Before joining LSE International Inequalities Institute as a postdoc, 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 has completed her Ph.D. at the University of Bremen and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 2021, Nora has been appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology (tenure track) at Tilburg University (Netherlands) in part-time whilst also remaining a researcher at the III.

Expertise Details

Inequality; Socio-economic stratification

Publications

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

Waitkus, Nora and Lara Minkus (2021). “Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap across Occupational Classes” Feminist Economics. Forthcoming.  

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.

Groh-Samberg, Olaf, Nepomuk Hurch and Nora Waitkus (2018). “Dynamics of Social Inequality” (ed.) WSI-Mitteilungen, 71(5).

Groh-Samberg, Olaf, Nepomuk Hurch and Nora Waitkus (2018). “Status Competition and Social Segregation: Towards a joint analysis of two dynamics of inequality”. WSI-Mitteilungen, 71(5): 347-357.

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