CV

Current Position

Since 04/2015   Akademischer Oberrat auf Zeit (Assistant Professor), Institute for the Social Sciences (chair: Sociolgy II, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Education

06/2015   Habilitation in Sociology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

07/2013   Dr. disc. pol. in Sociology, Georg August University Göttingen, summa cum laude

03/2009   M.A. in Sociology, Philosophy and Cultural Studies, University of Leipzig, with distinction (grade: 1.0)

Previous Positions

2014-2015   Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (Assistant Professor), Department of Sociology (chair: General Sociology and Social Theory, Prof. Dr. Annette Schnabel), University of Wuppertal

2013-2014   Research associate, Institute of Sociology, University of Bern (Switzerland)

2012   Visiting scholar, Department of Political Science (host: Prof. Dr. h.c. Andrei S. Markovits, Ph.D.), University of Michigan (USA)

2010-2014   Research associate, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (chair: Rural Sociology, Prof. Dr. Ulf Liebe), University of Göttingen

2010-2012   Research associate in the project „Anti-Americanism in Germany“ (Fritz Thyssen Foundation, head: Prof. Dr. Ulf Liebe), University of Göttingen

2009   Research assistant, Institute of Sociology, (chair: Sociological Theory, Prof. Dr. Thomas Voss), University of Leipzig

2009   Research associate in the project „Fairness and Status among Juveniles“ (DFG, head: Dr. Ulf Liebe), University of Leipzig

2006-2009   Student assistant, Institute of Sociology (chair: Sociological Theory, Prof. Dr. Thomas Voss), University of Leipzig

Grants

2014   Publication grant of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (4,725 Euro)

2014   Teaching grant of the QSL program of the BMBF (6,900 Euro)

2013   DAAD travel grant for international conference (1,307 Euro)

2012   Visiting scholar grant of the Fulbright commision (9,600 Euro)

2011   DAAD travel grant for international conference (1,174 Euro)

2010   DAAD travel grant for international conference (1,136 Euro)

Memberships

– European Sociological Association (RN 31: Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism)

– Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Sections: Political Sociology & Social Problems and Social Control)

Editorial

Consulting Editor, Soziopolis, since 2014

Reviewer

American Journal of Political Science

Human Studies

International Studies Quarterly

Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie

Zeitschrift für Soziologie