ISIM Faculty and Staff

Michael Werz
Visiting Scholar
mw286@georgetown.edu

Dr. Michael Werz is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Dr. Werz is also a nonresident transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund.  Currently based in Washington, he recently completed a project at GMF on how ethnic diversity positively impacts the U.S. Foreign Service and the development of American foreign policy.  His research drew lessons to be learned from the American model in Germany, more specifically how ethnic communities there can add value and cultural competencies to future German and European policies.  Dr. Werz has served as the director of the New York office of the Hessen Universities Consortium from 2005 to 2007. He previously taught sociology at Hannover University in Germany, and has held appointments as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and as a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.  He is widely published on the areas of race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe. Dr. Werz holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and an M.A. in philosophy, political science and Latin American studies from Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. While studying for his doctorate he spent a year as a visiting scholar in the history department at the University of California, Berkeley. He speaks fluent English and Spanish in addition to his native German

mw286@georgetown.edu