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Fields of InterestTheories of Practice and Interaction |
Academic Education
| 05/2019 | Dr. phil. in Sociology, University of Mainz Dissertation: The Body of Knowledge. Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
| 2008 | Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology, Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna |
| 2008 | Master of Arts Master's Thesis: Die Sozio-Logik (natur-)wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Situiertheiten und Verfasstheiten von Wissen (The socio-logic of (natural-) scientific practice. Situatedness and constitution of knowledge) |
| 2006-2008 | Master of Arts in Communication and Cultural Management, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen |
| 2005 | Dipl. Ing. (for Media) Diploma Thesis: Multimodale Medienrezeption als Herausforderung für die Medienwirkungsforschung (Multimodal media reception as a challenge for media impact research) |
| 2000-2005 | Studies of Media and Information Engineering and Design at Offenburg University and Studies of Media Arts at University of Western Sydney, Australia. |
Professional / Academic Positions
| since 2021 | Member (Post-Doc) in the DFG Research-Project "Universitäre Urteile"/"Academic Judgements" |
| 2016-2019 | Member in the DFG Research Group: Un/doing Differences. Practices in Human Differentiation. Project: Non-school evaluation. Universities and free schools between the requirement of differentiation and institutionalized contrasts |
| 2014-2016 | Parental leave |
| since 2008 | Research Associate, Institute of Sociology at the Department of Knowledge, Education and Qualitative Methods, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz |
| 2005-2006 | Trainee at Weischer.Mediagroup (elbbergmedia), Hamburg |
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
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The Body of Knowledge. Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry. London/New York: Routledge 2022. Access |
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Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation. Nature + Culture, 16 (1), März 2021. (Special Issue with Christiane Schürkmann). Access |
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Komplexe Regionen. Regionenkomplexe. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2009 (ed. with Marissa Hey). Access |
Articles in Refereed Journals
Introduction: Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation. In: Nature + Culture, 16 (1), march2021 , pp.1-10 (with Christiane Schürkmann). Access
Das lesende Schreiben und das schreibende Lesen. Zur epistemischen Arbeit an und mit wissenschaftlichen Texten (Reading Writing/Writing Reading. On Epistemic Work with Scientific Texts.) In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 42 (5), 2013, pp. 366-384 (with Björn Krey). Access
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Instruktion und ihre Teilnehmer: Was ist in einem Seminar? In: Daniel Meyer/Julia Reuter/Oliver Berli (eds.): Ethnographie der Hochschule. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022, pp. 83-106. Access
Universitäre Bewertung. Die Geschichtswissenschaft und die Einsätze ihrer Mitglieder. In: Frank Meier/Thorsten Peetz (Hg.): Organisation und Bewertung. VS Springer, 2021, pp. 239-270. (with Herbert Kalthoff). Access
Soziologie als Praxis. Von den Eigenheiten ein Habitat zu beforschen, zu dem man selbst gehört. In: Reiner Keller/Angelika Poferl (eds.): Wissenskulturen der Soziologie. Bad Langensalza: Beltz Juventa, 2018, pp. 40-71. Access
Einleitung: Von Komplexitäten und Regionen. In: Marissa Hey/Kornelia Engert (eds.): Komplexe Regionen - Regionenkomplexe. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2009, pp. 9-17 (with Marissa Hey et. al.). Access
Teaching Experiences
Qualitative Methods
| Research training | Universitäre Urteile/Academic Judgements (winter term 2021/22 until summer term 2022) |
| Seminar | Sociology of (Higher) Education, co-teaching with Tristan Dittrich (summer term 2019) |
| Seminar | Focus group research and interviewing experts, co-teaching with Dr. Christiane Schürkmann (summer term 2017) |
| Seminar | Interview research, co-teaching with Miriam Chebbah (summer term 2013) |
| Seminar | Camera Research (WS 2020/21) |
| Research Training | Knowledge and Creative Work. Ethnographic explorations into the ‘New’ I/II (summer term 2012 until winter term 2012/13 for master’s degree) (four hours a week) |
| Seminar | Qualitative Methods (winter terms 2008/09, 2010/11, 2018719, 2019720 summer terms 2009 and 2012) |
General and Special Sociology
| Seminar | Reading Goffman (in English, summer term 2013) |
| Seminar | Social Studies of Science, co-teaching with Herbert Kalthoff (summer term 2012) |
| Seminar | Sociology of Gesture (summer term 2011) |
| Seminar | Theories of Interaction (winter term 2010/11) |
| Seminar | Reading Goffmann (summer term 2009) |
Sociology of Education
| Lecture | Society and Socialization (summer term 2018, winter term 2019/20, winter term 2020/21) |
| Seminar | Society and Socialization (winter terms 2008/09 and2017/18) |
| Research Training | Research workshop (Ethnography, Grounded Theory) for master’s degree in Education II (winter term 2016/17) |
| Seminar | Communication and Interaction (summer terms 2009, 2010 and 2016, winter term 2009/10) |
| Seminar | Social Differences in Education (winter term 2008/09, summer term 2016) |
| Seminar | Going to school with Goffman (summer term 2001) |
Invited Lectures and Conference Papers
„Multiple Übersetzungen. Lesen und Schreiben in der qualitativen Forschung“. Ad-Hoc-Group „Materiale Übersetzung, Textproduktion und Darstellungsprobleme in der qualitativen Sozialforschung“ at the 41th Congress of the German Sociological Asociation „Polarisierte Welten“, Bielefeld, September 26-30, 2022 (with Björn Krey)
„Academic valuation: Assessing student’s achievements in Higher Education”. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, New College, University of Oxford, September 12-14, 2022
"Manuskripte im Entwurf: Von der Empirie zur Darstellungsleistung. " Ad-Hoc-Group "Wissenschaftliche Repräsentationsarbeit - Darstellung und Legitimation empirischer Forschung in Publikationen" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA)/Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS) "Post-Corona-Gesellschaft?", Wien, August 23-25, 2021
"Returning To And Taking Up Classic ‘Studies’ Of Scientific Practice – A Domestication Of What?" Paper presented in panel "Classic STS Papers, Re-Incorporated, Reimagined, Re-enacted" at the 4S Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US, 2019
"'Seeing sociologically' in action. Towards a praxeology of sociological observations". Paper presented in the section of ‘Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis’ at the 114th ASA Annual Meeting, New York, US, 2019
„Zur (Un-)Wahrscheinlichkeit selbstreflektierender Interessiertheit“. Paper presented in Ad-hoc-panel „Ende des multiparadigmatischen Friedens? Soziale Bedingungen aktueller Kontroversen theoretischer Soziologe”, at the 39th DGS Congress, Göttingen, 2018
"'Entschulte' Bewertung: Höhere Bildung zwischen 'Credits' und akademischen Anforderungen". Congress of the section Sociology of Organisation on the topic "Organsiation and valuation", Bremen University, February 08-09, 2018
"Potenziale des Wissens und reflexiver Selbstbezug". Congress: "Selbstsein als Sich-Wissen? Zur Bedeutung der Wissensgeschichte für die Historisierbarkeit des Subjekts". International Congress at Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, January 26-28, 2017
"The site of the social sciences. Sociology in sight". Ad-hoc-group "Soziologie der Wissenskulturen. Zur Spezifik soziologischer Wissensproduktion" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA) "Routinen der Krise, Krise der Routinen", Trier, October 06-19, 2014 (with Björn Krey)
"Textual orders and orderings. The case of social scientific writing". 10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, July 10-14, 2011 (with Björn Krey)
”Seeing writing. Zur Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung textualer Praktiken und Artefakte". Congress "Visuelle Daten Analysieren, Analyzing Visual Data", Methods of Qualitative Social Research/German Sociological Association (GSA), Universität Klagenfurt, June 3-4, 2011 (with Björn Krey)
„Ethnographie der Soziologie“. Lecture as part of the series "Grass trifft…“, Universität Münster, May 12, 2011
”Writing Sociology. Praktiken soziologischen Schreibens und ihre textualen Artefakte". ”Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA), Frankfurt, 2010 (with Björn Krey)
Conferences and Sessions Organized
2019: Co-organizer of the 4th Symposium of Social and Cultural Studies, Mainz: "Posthuman. New Perspectives on Nature/Culture" (with Cress, Torsten; Huff, Tobias, Murawska, Oliwia; Schlitte, Annika; Schürkmann Christiane), Conference with international guests at SoCuM (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies), Johannes Gutenberg University. https://posthuman.uni-mainz.de/
2018: Co-organizer ad-hoc-panel: “Koexistenz. Neue Perspektiven der Humandezentrierung” (with Cress, Torsten; Schürkmann, Christiane), at the 39 th DGS-Kongress, Göttingen
Grants, Awards and Fellowships
| since 2022 | Member of the DFG-Network "Textual performance in qualitative social research" |
| 2019 | DAAD-Travelgrant for ASA Annual Meeting, New York, USA |
| since 2017 | Member of the Junior Research Group AG 3: Posthuman, Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies (SoCuM), Mainz |
| 2010 | Fellow of the 1st Summer School of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS): “Handling gesture: Theory and Method in Gesture Studies” at European University Viadrina, funded by Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen Stiftung) |
| 2006-2008 | Scholarship student at Zeppelin University with a Master Stipend from the German Magazine “planung&analyse” |
| 1996-1997 | Scholarship student of the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) at Tolleson Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona |