Kristoffer Kropp

SCAS-Nordic Fellow, SCAS
Associate Professor, Department of Social Science and Business, Roskilde University

Kristoffer Kropp is a sociologist whose research explores the sociology of science with a special focus on the social sciences and their entanglement with political institutions. His work investigates how social scientific knowledge is produced and how it interacts with broader political structures, particularly within the European Union. Kropp earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of Copenhagen in 2011 with a dissertation on the history and development of Danish sociology.

Since 2015, he has served as an Associate Professor at Roskilde University, and in 2017–2018, he was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His research has been supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark.

In recent years, Kropp’s work has centered on the relationship between social science and EU research policy, analyzing the Europeanization of social science from the 1970s onward. Through a field-theoretical lens, he provides both theoretical innovation and detailed empirical analyses of how social science and political institutions have co-evolved. His studies examine the organization of European research initiatives, policy shifts at the EU level, and the formation of transnational social scientific practices.

Kropp’s research is published in leading journals such as Poetics, The Sociological Review, Journal of European Integration, Social Science Information, and Journal of European Integration History. At the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), he is developing a book-length project investigating how transnational dynamics shape the production of social-scientific knowledge in contemporary Europe.

 

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2026-27.