Dr. Christian Czymara

Contact

Theodor-W-Adorno-Platz 6
Campus Westend - PEG- Gebäude
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Room 3.G 152
Tel. +49 69 798 36708
czymara[at]soz.uni-frankfurt[dot]de

Office hours

By arrangement via e-mail.

Website

https://czymara.com

Christian Czymara is currently
on a research stay at Tel Aviv University


Research interests | Short biography | Teaching | Publications


Short biography

  • Since  October 2022: Postdoctoral fellow at the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology (funded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities & the Council for Higher Education)
  • Since May 2018: Postdoc and lecturer at the department methods of empirical social research at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (currently on leave)
  • December 2018: Doctorate in Social Sciences at the University of Cologne (Dr. rer. Pol., summa cum laude)
  • February to March 2018: Research stay at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2015-2018: Fellow at the Graduate School in management, economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne
  • 2016-2018: Research assistant at the chair of Empirical Social and Economic Research at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
  • August 2015: M. Sc. in Sociology and Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne
  • June to August 2014: Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for social studies
  • 2013-2015: Student assistant at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences at the Department of Computational Social Science
  • June 2012: B. A. in Sociology at the University of Mannheim
  • 2010-2012: Student assistant at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research in the DFG project "Ethnic and social differences in small-scale housing choices"

 Complete CV for download as PDF here.

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Research interests

  • Attitudes
  • Immigration
  • Political communication
  • Quantitative tmethods & computational social sciences
  • Text-as-data & Natural Language Processing

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Publications

Dissertation

Czymara, C. S. (2018). Discursive Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigrants: Political Parties and Mass Media as Contextual Sources of Threat Perceptions. Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Hoogeveen, S. & 100+ co-authors (2022): A many-analysts approach to the relation between
religiosity and well-being religiosity and well-being
. Religion, Brain and Behavior.

Czymara, Dochow, Drouhot, Simsek & Spörlein (2022): Catalyst of hate? Ethnic insulting on YouTube in the aftermath of terror attacks in France, Germany and the United Kingdom 2014-2017Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Special issue: Computational Approaches to Migration and Integration Research).

Czymara & Mitchell (2022). All Cops are Trusted? How Context and Time Shape Immigrants’ Trust in the Police in EuropeEthnic and Racial Studies.

Langenkamp, Cano & Czymara (2022): My Home is my Castle? The Role of Living Arrangements on Experiencing the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Germany. Frontiers in Sociology 6: 1 – 14. 

 Czymara & van Klingeren (2021). New perspective? Comparing Frame Occurrence in Online and Traditional News Media Reporting on Europe's "Migration Crisis"Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research.

Czymara & Eisentraut (2020). A threat to the Occident? Comparing human values of Muslim immigrants, Christian and non-religious natives in Western EuropeFrontiers in Sociology 5: 1-15.

Czymara, Langenkamp & Cano (2020). Cause for Concerns: Gender Inequality in Experiencing the COVID-19 Lockdown in GermanyEuropean Societies.

Schmidt-Catran & Czymara (2020). "Did You Read About Berlin?" Terrorist Attacks, Online Media Reporting and Support for Refugees in GermanySoziale Welt 71 (2–3): 305–337.

 Czymara, Christian S. (2020). Attitudes toward refugees in contemporary Europe: A longitudinal perspective on cross-national differencesSocial Forces.

 Czymara, Christian S.: Propagated Preferences? Political Elite Discourses and Europeans’ Openness toward Muslim ImmigrantsInternational Migration Review.

Czymara,  Christian S., and Stephan Dochow. (2018). ”Mass Media and Concerns about Immigration in Germany in the 21st Century: Individual-Level Evidence over 15 Years.” European Sociological Review 34(4):381-401.

Czymara, Christian S., and Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran. (2017). ”Refugees Unwelcome? Changes in the Public Acceptance of Immigrants and Refugees in Germany in the Course of Europe’s „Immigration Crisis”.” European Sociological Review 33(6):735-751.

Czymara, Christian S., and Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran. (2016). „Wer ist in Deutschland willkommen? Eine Vignettenanalyse zur Akzeptanz von Einwanderern [Who is welcome in Germany? A vignette analysis on the acceptance of immigrants].” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 68(2):193-227.

Other

Breznau, N., […] Czymara, C. S. […]. (2019). "The Crowdsourced Replication Initiative: Investigating Immigration and Social Policy Preferences using Meta-Science. Executive Report." SocArXiv.

Czymara, Christian S., and Alexander W. Schmidt-Catran. 2018. “Konfundierungen in Vignettenanalysen mit einzelnen d‑effizienten Vignettenstichproben [Confounding in vignette analyses with individual d-efficient vignette samples].“ Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 70(1):93-103.

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Teaching at Goethe University

Summer term 2022
Forschungspraktikum Teil I und II: Längsschnittdatenanalyse in R

Winter term 2021/2022
Forschungspraktikum Teil I und II : Vergleichende Sozialforschung mit Mehrebenenmodellen in R

Summer term 2021
Forschungspraktikum Teil I und Teil II: Längsschnittdatenanalyse und Kausalität

Winter term 2020/2021
Forschungspraktikum Teil I und Teil II: Längsschnittdatenanalyse und Kausalität

Summer term 2020

Forschungspraktikum Teil I und Teil II: Längsschnittdatenanalyse und Kausalität

Winter term 2019/20

Forschungspraktikum I & II: Vergleichende Sozialforschung mit Mehrebenenmodellen

Courses in previous semesters

Research Training Part I & II: Analyzing longitudinal Data and the Issue auf Causality

Quantitative comparative social research with multi-level modeling 

An applied introduction into quantitative comparative social research

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