Alexander Reisenbichler

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Research Coordinator, Joint Initiative of German and European Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

Trinity College
1 Devonshire Place 
Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3K7 Canada

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Areas of interest

  • Politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies
  • Western Europe
  • Comparative Politics

Biography

Biography

Alexander Reisenbichler is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and research coordinator of the Joint Initiative of German and European Studies (JIGES) at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. His work explores the politics of housing, financial, and labor markets in advanced economies, with regional specializations in Western Europe and the United States. 

His book, Through the Roof: Housing, Capitalism, and the State in America and Germany, is under contract with Cambridge University Press. It explains the highly divergent trajectories of American and German housing policies throughout the past century. His academic articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, the Review of International Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, West European Politics, and Foreign Affairs.

He is a former John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.