Ruxandra Paul is an assistant professor of political science at Amherst College and a local affiliate of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in comparative politics from Harvard, where she then worked and taught courses as a postdoctoral Harvard College Fellow. Paul's research analyzes the political impact of supranational integration, transnational social protection, and migration management following mass migration. Specific research and teaching interests include international migration, citizenship, European integration and European Union enlargement, nation-building, and cyberpolitics.
In her first published book, Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (Oxford University Press, 2023, co-authored with Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, and Ken Sun), Paul examines how people access social welfare and manage risk in a world on the move, across the life cycle. Her analysis shows show how childcare, education, health, work, and retirement involve people and resources that cross borders around the world.
