Willem Maas (PhD Yale) is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor in Political Science, Social & Political Thought, Socio-Legal Studies, and the Glendon School of Public & International Affairs, teaching comparative and European politics, citizenship, and migration. His book Creating European Citizens argues that European integration involves not only economic cooperation but also a political project of transcending borders and building a European community of people. Multilevel Citizenship (ed 2013) disputes the dominant narrative of citizenship as a homogeneous status bestowed only by nation-states; it considers overlapping jurisdictions, sub- or supranational citizenships, and shared governance. Democratic Citizenship and the Free Movement of People (ed 2013) challenges the normal way of thinking about free movement by identifying the tensions between the formal ideals that governments, laws, and constitutions expound and actual practices. Professor Maas is founding co-president of the Migration and Citizenship section of the American Political Science Association and will be awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship for a two-year project on the future of European citizenship in comparative perspective.
maas@yorku.ca