Claire Whitlinger

Claire Whitlinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She previously served as a Visiting Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, where she collaborated on projects related to nationhood and minority rights.

Education:

• B.A. in Sociology, The George Washington University
• M.A. in Sociology, University of Michigan

Her research focuses on the incorporation of historically excluded groups into civil and political communities, with a particular emphasis on memory work such as commemorations and truth commissions. She collaborates with Professor Kiyoteru Tsutsui on studies of global truth commission proliferation and contributed to Professor Matthias Koenig's project on nationhood trajectories.