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Berglind Hólm Ragnarsdóttir
Assistant Professor
460 8478
bhr@unak.is
Location
A210
Sólborg
Specialisation
Inequality
Gender equality
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Courses 2025 - 2026
KYN0176210
Gender Studies
RHF0176220
Research Methods in Humanities & Social Science
Education
2019
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Ph.D. Sociology
2015
The Graduate Center, City University of New York, M.Phil Sociology
2010
University of Iceland, MA Sociology
2008
University of Iceland, BA Sociology
Career
2020
University of Akureyri, Assistant professor
2019 - 2020
University of Memphis, Postdoctoral Fellow
2016 - 2020
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Research, Research assistant
2011 - 2016
Luxembourg Income Study Data Center, New York, Research assistant
2012 - 2015
Queens College, New York, Adjunct
Research
2026
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?
Journal article
2025
Staða einstæðra mæðra og barna þeirra í íslensku velferðarsamfélagi.
Journal article
2023
Accounting for the Value of Unpaid Domestic Work: A Cross-National Study of Variation across Household Types.
Journal article
2020
When the Gods Fall: Varieties of Post-Secularization in a Small, Secularized State.
Journal article
2019
The Interplay between Women’s Earnings and the Income Distribution: A Cross-National Analysis of Latin American and Anglophone Countries.
Working paper
2018
Anders Hellström Trust Us: Reproducing the Nation and the Scandinavian Nationalist Populist Parties Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016, 232 pp. $95.00/£67.00 hbk.
Journal article
2013
The Global Financial Crisis and Individual Distress: The Role of Subjective Comparisons after the Collapse of the Icelandic Economy.
Journal article
2013
LIS, Cross-National Datacenter in Luxembourg—An Overview.
Working paper
2013
LIS, Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, an Overview.
Book chapter
2010
Hverjir tóku þátt í Búsáhaldabyltingunni?
Conference paper
2009
Attitudes Toward own Income and Perceived Social Inequality in Society.
Conference paper
2009
Perceived Inequality, Social Mobility, and Attitudes toward Government Redistribution.
Conference paper
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