About Us

The Institute of Identity Research (IDmap) is an interdisciplinary Institute dedicated to acquire comparative data on the topic of ethnicity and identity. The Institute is especially interested in how the ideas of multilevel identities and their structural manifestations impact and shape people’s daily lives. The Institute of Identity Research encourages the study of ethnicity and processes of ethnicization in comparative and transnational frameworks. The Institute aims at producing engaged scholarship that rejects the false dichotomy between rigorous intellectual work and community activism and instead seeks to contribute intellectually challenging and innovative scholarship that can help people transform their thinking and their lives.