About

I’m a PhD candidate at the department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) in the Netherlands.

My work centers around stereotypes and prejudice against different minority groups, and to what extent quantitative methods can be used to capture intersectional mechanisms. Using factorial experiements in an extensive harmonised survey in 10 countries I specifically look at how gender, sexuality, religion, and ethnicity shape stereotypes in ways that would be missed with additive models. A working paper titled “Are stereotypes of warmth and competence intersectionally complex? Investigating intersections of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and religion.” can be found here.

My PhD project is placed in the Horizon Europe funded project EQUALSTRENGTH which investigates cumulative and structural forms of discrimination, outgroup prejudice and hate crimes against ethnic, racial and religious minorities. EQUALSTRENGTH is a consortium of ten instiutions in nine European countries: Belgium, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. More information about EQUALSTRENGTH can be found here.

Previously I have worked on educational mobility and how analyses are affeced by researchers’ analytical choices. The article “How Robust are Country Rankings in Educational Mobility?” written with Per Engzell (UCL) was recently published in Sociological Science and can be found here.

Before starting my PhD I worked as a research assistant in a project on the role of recrutiment for gender differences in Swedish universities, led by Anna Sandberg and Eva Ranehill. You can read more about that project here.

You can get in touch via bluesky or email e.o.stromberg[at]uva.nl