Curriculum Vitae

since 2020
Member of the Committee for the Safeguarding of Good Scientific Practice, University of Kassel

since 2020
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal "Society - the Individual - Socialisation: Journal for Research on Socialisation" (GISo)

since 2020
Member of the Review Board 111 (Social Sciences) of the German Research Foundation (DFG)

since 2019
Head of the Master Programme "Diversität - Forschung - Soziale Arbeit" (previously Master Soziale Arbeit), Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel

since 2019
Member of the Foundation Board of the Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel

2017-2019
Member of the Foundation Committee of the Foundation Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel

since 2017
Chair of the Promotionsausschuss of the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel

since 2016
Member of the "Kommission zur Vergabe der zentralen Forschungsfördermittel"

since 2016
Member of the Advisory Board of the Program for the Development and Management of Research Projects (EMF) of the Graduate Academy, University of Kassel

2015-2017
Member of the Directorate of the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Kassel, Head of the Committee on Student Affairs

since 2014
Editor of the Journal "Soziale Probleme - Zeitschrift für soziale Probleme und soziale Kontrolle" in the German Sociological Association (GSA); until October 2016 in collaboration with Prof. Dr Axel Groenemeyer, TU Dortmund University; since October 2016 together with Prof. Dr. Anke Neuber, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel

since 2010
Member of the Board of the Section Soziale Probleme und soziale Kontrolle in the German Sociological Association (GSA), since May 2017 Spokesperson of the Board

2010-2016
Member of the Research Training Group „Dynamics of Space and Gender: Discovering - Conquering - Inventing - Narrating“ (GRK 1599), University of Kassel in Cooperation with the University of Göttingen

2010-2014
Spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Research Foci „Ungleichheiten in Geschlechterverhältnissen“ and „Normalität und Ordnung – Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Geschlecht“ of the Central Research Fund (ZFF) of the University of Kassel

since 2009
Second Member in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kassel

since 2008
Head of the Research-Oriented Master Programme Social Work, University of Kassel

2008-2010
Vice Dean of the Department of Social Work and Social Welfare, University of Kassel

since 2007
Professor for Sociology of Social Differentiation and Socioculture, University of Kassel

2005-2007
Substitute Professor for Sociology of Gender Relations, Goethe University, Frankfurt

2004-2010
Spokesperson of the Section Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in the German Sociological Association (GSA)

08-10/2004
Guest Professorship at Roskilde University Denmark

1998-2004
Scientific Associate of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), Hanover

WS 2003
Guest Professorship at "Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (ZIF)" of the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen and the University of Hildesheim Foundation

2003
Habilitation in Sociology, Leibniz University Hannover

WS 2002
Guest Professorship at the Institute for Sociology, Universität Hamburg

1996-1997
Scientific Associate of the Archive of the German Women's Movement, Kassel

1995
Doctorate, Leibniz University Hannover

1991-1995
Doctoral Scholarship of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation

1993-1994
Scientific Associate in the agis (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Interdisziplinäre Sozialstrukturforschung), Leibniz University Hannover

1986-1990
Studies in Sociology, Social Psychology and Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover, Degree in Social Sciences

1983-1986
Social Work Studies, Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, Lüneburg

1980-1988
Work in Social Psychiatry (Psychiatric Clinic Häcklingen, Lüneburg; Social Psychiatric Counselling Centres of the Hanover Health Department)