Michelle Pace is Professor in Global Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. A political scientist by training, her research focuses on the intersection between European Studies, Middle East Studies, Critical Migration Studies, Democratization Studies, and Conflict Studies. She is the Danish Lead partner of the Horizon Europe project SHAPEDEM-EU, which investigates the EU’s practices within its neighbourhoods in a set of policy fields (including migration, energy, security and trade, as crucial entangled policy areas) to seek out their impact on the effectiveness of its democracy support.
She is also the Denmark representative on the Management Committee of a COST ACTION network on migration and religious diversity, with a focus on tolerance in today’s societies, and alternative epistemologies in the quest for knowledge equity. She has been/is the Principal and/or Co-Investigator on a number of large project grants funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the British Academy, and the Wellcome Trust in the UK, and in Denmark on projects funded by the EU’s H2020 as well as the Erasmus+ Programme, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Carlsberg Foundation. She is currently writing a monograph on Denmark’s strict immigration policies, which is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation Monograph Fellowship.
Professor Pace is also involved at the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden where she is a member of its Scientific Advisory Board as well as Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Studies Forum of Deakin University in Australia.
