Welcome!
I am a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the University of Zurich. Previously, I have been a postdoc at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in the Global Governance research unit, and a fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University. I received my PhD from the Graduate School of Decision Sciences at the University of Konstanz.

I am interested in subnational demands for autonomy and independence. My ongoing work assesses the effect of economic crises on sovereignty referendums in Europe.  In my dissertation and book project, I offer the first unifying theory of how symbolic territorial attachments affect the incidence, strategy choice and success of demands for self-determination on a global scale. I am excited to be part of the bridging  project the bridging project "Experimenting with Causality" at WZB. My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, as well as Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.

You can reach me via email at kelle[at]ipz.uzh.ch.

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