GLOBALCIT Senior Research Associate

Ashley Mantha-Hollands is the GLOBALCIT Coordinator and Research Fellow at the EUI. Her research broadly focuses on citizenship, public policy and legal analysis, and gender studies. Ashley has been working on a project analysing biomedical laws, policy establishing parentage, and citizenship acquisition for children born from alternative reproductive technologies.

Ashley holds a PhD in Political Science from the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2020, her doctoral dissertation was recognized by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada award. Ashley’s work has appeared in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and the William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal. She has teaching experience on topics related to citizenship, political participation, and migration studies.

Her research has had a direct impact on policy and has fed into policy processes at the national and international level. Ashley has co-authored reports for the European Commission on citizenship laws, political participation, and electoral rights among EU Member States. She has also worked as a consultant for the OECD and as a policy analyst for the Government of Canada