Biography
**Jonathan Mijs is a Veni Fellow at Erasmus University Rotterdam.**
Previously, Jonathan was an EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow. Jonathan held appointments as Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University (2019-2021) and Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics (2017-2019). He earned his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University in 2017.
His *Disconnected Inequality* project investigates how people across the Atlantic make sense of inequality, and how their beliefs in turn fuel feelings of sympathy and solidarity with fellow citizens, inform their policy attitudes and motivate their political behavior.
Jonathan is part of the *Erasmus Institute on Culture and Stratification* and the *Vital Cities and Citizens* Erasmus Initiative, where his work contributes to the subtheme Inclusive Cities and Diversity. For more information on Jonathan's research and publications, see his personal homepage.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- mijs@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Thijs Lindner, Jonathan Mijs, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2023) - Does informing citizens about the non-meritocratic nature of inequality bolster support for a universal basic income? Evidence from a population-based survey experiment - European Societies - doi: 10.1080/14616696.2023.2272263
- Jonathan J.B. Mijs, Willem de Koster & Jeroen van der Waal (2022) - Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality - Social Science Research, 104 - doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102692 - [link]
- Jonathan J.B. Mijs & Elizabeth L. Roe (2021) - Is America coming apart? Socioeconomic segregation in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and social networks, 1970–2020 - Sociology Compass, 15 (6) - doi: 10.1111/soc4.12884 - [link]
- Jonathan Mijs & C Hoy (2021) - How information about inequality impacts belief in meritocracy: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Australia, Indonesia and Mexico - Social Problems, 69 (1), 91-122 - doi: 10.1093/socpro/spaa059 - [link]
- Jonathan Mijs (2021) - The paradox of inequality: Income inequality and belief in meritocracy go hand in hand - Socio-Economic Review, 19 (1), 7-35 - doi: 10.1093/ser/mwy051 - [link]
- Jonathan Mijs (2021) - Earning rent with your talent: modern-day inequality rests on the power to define, transfer and institutionalize talent - Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53 (8), 810-818 - doi: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1745629 - [link]
- Jonathan Mijs (2020) - Meritocracy, Elitism and Inequality - Political Quarterly, 91 (2), 397-404 - doi: 10.1111/1467-923X.12828 - [link]
- N Gidron & Jonathan Mijs (2019) - Do changes in material circumstances drive support for populist radical parties? Panel data evidence from The Netherlands during the Great Recession, 2007–2015 - European Sociological Review, 35 (5), 637-650 - doi: 10.1093/esr/jcz023 - [link]
- Jonathan J.B. Mijs (2018) - Inequality is a problem of inference: How people solve the social puzzle of unequal outcomes - Societies, 8 (3), 64-81 - doi: 10.3390/soc8030064 - [link]
- Jonathan J.B. Mijs (2016) - The Missing Organizational Dimension of Prisoner Reentry: An Ethnography of the Road to Reentry at a Nonprofit Service Provider - Sociological Forum, 31 (2), 291-309 - doi: 10.1111/socf.12254 - [link]
- JJB (Jonathan) Mijs (2021) - Dutch Research Council Veni grant
- JJB (Jonathan) Mijs (2021) - KNAW Early Career Award
- JJB (Jonathan) Mijs (2021) - Veni
- JJB (Jonathan) Mijs (2019) - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
Boston University
- Start date approval
- november 2023
- End date approval
- november 2026
- Place
- BOSTON
- Description
- Part-time docent
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