Jasper Theodor Kauth

Research Fellow

Affiliation: Rothermere American Institute
Expert in: Migration governance and policy, Migration and race
Geographic focus: Europe, USA

Dr Jasper Theodor Kauth is the Winant-Kinder Career Development Fellow in US Politics at the Rothermere American Institute. He is a comparative political scientist focusing on migration politics, state theory, illiberalism, and American Political Development. In his mixed-methods research, he investigates the origins and effects of persistent patterns of exclusion in the political development of liberal democracies. His DPhil thesis, Migration Control and State Power, shows how efforts to control internal and external migration in the 19th and 20th centuries produced similar trajectories of modern state development in the US, UK, and Germany. Drawing on his work on illiberalism, Jasper is now developing a book manuscript on the evolution of migration politics in the US and Europe since 1945 and its implications for contemporary democratic practice.

Jasper holds a DPhil in Politics, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Nuffield College, and an MSc in Politics Research from the University of Oxford. He received his BA in History and Political Science from Heidelberg University, Germany.