Academic Career
| Since 2016 |
Chair (W2) of Comparative Cultural Studies and Qualitative Research (Sociology) at TU Dresden |
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2012 - 2016 |
Junior Professor of Sociology focus Media Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen |
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2009 - 2012 |
Research Associate, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University |
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2007 - 2009 |
Research Associate in the evaluation team of the federal model programme Impact-oriented Youth Welfare ('Wirkungsorientierte Jugendhilfe'), Faculty of Educational Science, Bielefeld University |
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2007 - 2008 |
Research Associate in the project Women in Top-Level Research ('Frauen in der Spitzenforschung'), Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Hamburg |
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2004 - 2008 |
Doctoral programme, Research Training Group World Concepts and Global Structural Patterns: Differentiation and Functional Diversification of World Society, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University |
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2004 - 2005 |
Field research in Paraguay and Argentina |
| 2004 |
Visiting Researcher at the Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis (Prof. Dr. Luis Guarnizo) |
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2002 - 2003 |
Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidad de Sevilla |
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2001 - 2003 |
Studies in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Postgraduate studies for admission to doctoral studies |
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1990 - 1995 |
Studies in Social pedagogy, Fachhochschule Rheinland-Pfalz, Abt. Koblenz, Degree: Diplom-Sozialpädagogin (FH) |
Professional affiliations
| Since 2018 | Member of the Executive Committee of the Section Qualitative Methods of Social Research (Qualitative Methoden der Sozialforschung), German Sociological Association (DGS) |
| Since 2017 | Member of the Advisory Scientific Council of the Center for Media and Interactivity, Justus Liebig University, Gießen |
| Since 2017 |
Chairperson of the Executive Board of the Centre for Integration Studies, TU Dresden |