Hilary Silver

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Hilary Silver

Professor of Sociology, International Affairs, and Public Policy & Public Administration

Full-time Faculty


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European Studies; migrant integration and inequality in Europe; social exclusion, homelessness, and poverty; comparative urban studies.

Ph.D. Columbia University

Hilary Silver and Laura Colini. Critical juncture or reset to normal? Pandemic responses to homelessness in the federal states of Germany and Italy. Cities 171 (April 2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106664

Hilary Silver. On the Periphery of Society: The Social Exclusion of East Germany. In Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies, edited by Pamela Ballinger and Clemens Sedmak. Routledge. February 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003542452-8

Hilary Silver. “Social Exclusion,” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, edited by George Ritzer, Chris Rojek, and J. Michael Ryan.  (19 February 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss150.pub2

Hilary Silver, 2025. Book Review of “The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants: East Asian Communities in Germany” by Zi Wang. German Politics and Society 43, no. 1 (Spring): 114-117. https://doi.org/10.3167/gps.2025.430105