About Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
I am a PhD-student in communications at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University [the bio page gives an impression of the interesting people that gives me a chance to work with]. I work with the role of potentially participatory media like online debates, phone-ins, and letters to the editor in papers at the intersection between movement and institutional politics.
My commentaries have appeared in a number of Danish news outlets, including Politiken and Information. At the J-School, I am amongst the organizers of the colloquium series, where we host a number of fascinating speakers. I also review articles for the Scandinavian academic journals Distinktion and Tidsskriftet Politik.
My background is in political science. I have a BA and a MA from the University of Copenhagen, an MA from the University of Essex, and have spend a year as a graduate student at the New School for Social Research.
Previous work experience includes teaching at the University of Copenhagen, editing the social science quarterly Tidsskriftet Politik, and shuffling paper in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, my country of birth.
I have lived in Denmark, England, and the United States, and hope to add at least a couple more to that list over the coming years. I am today a proud inhabitant of New York City - if I ever fell in love with a single city, this is the one.
You can catch me at rkn2103 [at] columbia.edu.
