Post-Secondary Education

June 2005
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research)

November 1996
Master in Sociology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Science Research (USA)

June 1992
Bachelor in American Studies (Cum Laude, High Dept. Honors for Senior Thesis), Brandeis University (USA)

1990-1991
Exchange student, European Studies, University of Amsterdam

Employment and professional activities

2008-present
Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Amsterdam

2006-2008
Co-founder and Director, The Bridge Research Partnership

2004-2008
Lecturer in Sociology, University of Amsterdam

2004-2005
Research Fellow, RBC-Network (Research Based Consultancy, NL)

2002-2004
Co-editor, Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift

2003-2004
English teacher, Mendell College, Haarlem

1999-2002
English teacher, Augustinus College, Amsterdam

1996-1999

Social Studies and History teacher, William Howard Taft High School, Bronx, New York

Research Interests

The ethnography of urban outcastes and elites, educational (de-)segregation and the reproduction/transformation of exclusion more generally, the power of ritual practices, forms of violence and aggression, "race" and "ethnicity" as principles of social (di)vision, bodily behavior and (collective) emotions as modalities of group formation, gender dynamics, classical and contemporary social theory.

Paulle's dissertation, Anxiety and Intimidation in the Bronx and the Bijlmer: An ethnographic comparison of two schools, resulted from nearly six years of teaching experience and fieldwork. Anxiety and Intimidation illuminates the 'hidden curricula' to which highly vulnerable students in New York and Amsterdam were exposed. It depicts the meanings and mechanisms that governed the youths'--and the teachers'--responses and offers a sociological explanation of why the students in the two institutional worlds apart tended to act, feel, and think as they did. This study was named best dissertation defended in a Dutch University, 2005-2006, by the Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging (Dutch Sociological Association).

From December 2009 Paulle will be a member of city of Amsterdam's Adviesraad diversiteit en integratie.