Oliver Schmidtke is a Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Victoria, where he has also served as the Director of the Center for Global Studies in Victoria since 2011. He received his Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence and has been a JF Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Humboldt University Berlin, a F. Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, a Marie Curie Fellow at Hamburg University, and a research fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Studies. His research interests are in the fields of the politics and governance of migration, citizenship, nationalism, democracy, and populism.