Helle Rytkønen is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Research Institute of Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. A native Dane, she came to the US 14 years ago as an exchange student at UC Berkeley. In 2002, she earned a Ph.D. major in interdisciplinary studies and a Ph.D. minor in political science from Stanford University's Program in Modern Thought and Literature. Dr. Rytkønen has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in gender, race, ethnicity and immigration at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco. She is currently teaching “What's So Funny? The Rhetoric of Satire in ‘Ethnic Jokes’” at Stanford. Dr. Rytkønen's research concentrates on how contemporary European and immigrant identities are imagined, confronted or challenged in immigration law and public culture. Her next article titled “Drawing the Cultural Boundaries of a Muslim Diaspora - Inside of Europe Itself” is due out in Cultural Politics of the Middle East in the Americas by University of Michigan Press.