I am a Professor for Sociology with a focus on network research at Goethe University Frankfurt. Learn more about my research and me. (Here’s my CV.)
In 2024, I will begin my new project on “The Interplay of Children’s and Parents’ Networks in Shaping Each Other’s Social Worlds” (ChiParNet), which is funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Here you find more information on the project.
Moreover, I am currently directing a German-Israeli project on how ethnic composition and school ideology affect boundaries between Arab and Jewish students in Israel. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); it is joint work with Yossi Shavit (Tel Aviv University) and Uri Shwed (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Learn more about the project here.
Before starting in Frankfurt, I was a postdoc fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) at the University of Mannheim, Germany. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim in 2016. In my dissertation thesis, I investigated the interplay of young immigrants’ host country identification and their friendships with natives. I further contributed to the DFG-funded project “Friendship and Identity in School”, which is a longitudinal study of adolescents’ social networks and their ethnic identifications. The data of the project are available via the Research Data Center of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM). For the project, I also developed a measure of immigrants’ national and ethnic identity, which is available via ZIS – Gesis.
My work has appeared in journals such as American Sociological Review, Sociological Methods & Research, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Social Networks, Social Science Research, and International Migration Review.
Lars Leszczensky 