Jonathan Mijs

Jonathan J.B. Mijs is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at Boston University with a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University. He was previously an Assistant Professorial Research Fellow in Ethnicity, Race, and Equity at the London School of Economics, and a Lecturer on Sociology at Harvard University. Prof. Mijs is an affiliate of the Precarity lab and Centre for Innovation in Social Science at Boston University, a Veni Fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and co-chair of the Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Europe at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Prof. Mijs has published widely on the topic of inequality, social mobility, and meritocracy. He has extensive experience in designing, fielding, and analyzing surveys and survey experiments. He has taught methodology courses both at the undergraduate level and at the graduate level, has served as a journal reviewer specializing in research methodology for various scholarly publications and a grant reviewer for international funding agencies and national governments.

Prof. Mijs has a track record of consulting at various levels of government (e.g., UK Deaton Review, Dutch Ministry of Education, and Amsterdam City Government) as well as to NGOs (e.g., Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and Amnesty International).