Inta Mieriņa

Inta Mieriņa, the Juris Padegs Research Fellow in Baltic Studies at Yale University for the Spring 2016 semester, is a Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia’s Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, where she is the scientific director of the EEA/Norway grant “Rural Depopulation and the Governance of Education. Comparative Study of Latvia and Norway.”  She was director of the ESF research grant “The Emigrant Communities of Latvia: National Identity, Transnational Relations, and Diaspora Politics,” in which 14,068 Latvian emigrants were surveyed in 118 countries. The project received the 2014 University of Latvia Annual prize in science.