SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Since 02/2024Professor for Macrosociological Analysis of Contemporary Societies
10/2019 - 01/2024Deputy Chair of Sociology with a focus on Comparative Sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
04/2022Visiting researcher at the University of Maynooth (Ireland)
01/2016 - 09/2019 Coordinator of the DFG/FWF-funded research group "Europäische Vergesellschaftungsprozesse. Horizontal Europeanization between nation-state and global socialization" at the Institute of Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
11/2018 - 12/2018Visiting researcher with a research fellowship at the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societiesin Paris (France)
05/2017 - 04/2018Substitute Professor for Comparative Cultural Sociology and Political Sociology of Europe at the University of Siegen
10/2013 - 11/2013Visiting researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon (Portugal)
10/2012 - 03/2013Substitute for the professorship for International Comparative Social Analysis at the University of Osnabrück
07/2009 - 12/2015Academic Assistant at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Leipzig
11/2007 - 06/2009Research assistant at the Jean Monnet Centre for Europeanization and Transnational Regulations at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
09/2007 - 10/2007Visiting researcher at the European Union Center of Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
05/2005 - 10/2007Research assistant in the DFG-funded project "The Open Method of Coordination. A way to modernize national employment and social policies?" at the Chair of European Social Science Research at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg

 

Academic career

2018

Habilitation "A sociology of public debt. On the marketization, transnationalization and politicization of sovereign debt in the eurozone" at the University of Leipzig

Venia legendi "Sociology"

2009Doctorate "Opportunities for a social Europe? The Open Method of Coordination in the field of social inclusion" at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (summa cum laude)
1999 - 2005Studied sociology, ethnology, economics, European law and labor and social law at the Universities of Bayreuth, Bamberg and Galway (degree in sociology with a grade of 1.2)

Monograph

Preunkert, Jenny 2020: A Sociology of Public Debt. On the Financialization, Transnationalization and Politicization of Sovereign Debt in the Eurozone. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

Preunkert, Jenny 2009: Opportunities for a Social Europe? The Open Method of Coordination as a new form of regulation. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

 

Editorships

Kiess, Johannes, Jenny Preunkert, Joris Steg and Martin Seeliger 2023: Crises and Sociology. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa.

Baptista, Luís, Jenny Preunkert and Georg Vobruba 2015: Aftermath. Political and urban consequences of the eurocrisis. Lisbon: Edicoes Colibri.

Preunkert, Jenny and Georg Vobruba 2015: Crisis and integration. Social formation in the euro crisis. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Fehmel, Thilo, Stephan Lessenich and Jenny Preunkert 2014: System constraint and actor knowledge. Theory and empiricism of autonomy gains. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.

 

Article (refereed*)

*Preunkert, Jenny 2023: Primary Dealer Systems in the European Union. Journal of European Sociology. Doi: 10.1017/S0003975623000024.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2023: Germany's benchmark status in the Eurozone. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 31(2), pp. 475-486 Doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2021.2014306.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2022: European monetary policy between market neutrality and climate change. Culture, Practice & Europeanization, Special Issue Global moonshots, European responsibilities: Governance and Contestation of Eco-social Transformation. S. 192-208.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2021: Debt, a mechanism of inequality. The social structure of private debt in Europe. Leviathan, Berlin Journal of Social Sciences 49(3), pp. 361 - 385, DOI: 10.5771/0340-0425-2021-3-361

Preunkert, Jenny 2021: Review of "Hans-Jürgen Andreß/Detlef Fetchenhauer/ Heiner Meulemann (eds.), Cross-National Comparative Research. Special issue KZfSS 59. sociological review. S. 151-155.

*Preunkert, Jenny (together with Sven Broschinski and Martin Heidenreich) 2018: Lohnentwicklungen im öffentlichen Sektor. A focal point of European austerity policy? Austrian Journal of Sociology 43(1), special issue, pp. 117-145.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2017: Financialization of government debt? European government debt management approaches 1980-2007. Competition and Change 21(1), pp. 27-44.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2016: The European Field of Government Debt in Times of Stability and in Times of Crisis. Comparative Sociology 15(4), pp. 415-438.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2016: The state and its creditors. Developments in the Eurozone. Journal of Government and European Studies 14(2), pp. 240 - 260.

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Georg Vobruba) 2013: Die beiden Hälften der Eurokrise. Counterwords. Hefte für den disput über Wissen. No. 30. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science. S. 22-25.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2012: The European response to the financial crisis. Journal of Political Science 22(1), pp. 69-94.

Preunkert, Jenny 2011: The crisis in sociology. Sociology 40(4), pp. 276-290.

*Buchkremer (now Preunkert), Jenny (together with Sascha Zirra) 2007: Learning within fields: The limited success of the European Employment Strategy in Germany. European Spatial Research and Policy 14(1), pp. 63-83.

 

Contributions to edited volumes (refereed*)

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Georg Vorbruba) 2023: Euro Crisis and Corona Crisis in Comparison. Why community bonds were introduced in the Corona pandemic. In: Kiess, Johannes, Jenny Preunkert, Joris Steg and Martin Seeliger (eds.): Crises and Sociology. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 163-182.

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Johannes Kiess, Joris Steg, and Martin Seeliger) 2023: Introduction. Recognizing crises, analyzing crises: sociology in times of multiple crisis constellations. In: Kiess, Johannes, Jenny Preunkert, Joris Steg, and Martin Seeliger (eds.): Crises and Sociology. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, pp. 7-19.

Preunkert, Jenny 2021: Monetary policy in the field of tension between market neutrality and climate change. In: Center for Applied European Studies (ed.): Europäische Klimapolitik - zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. CAES publication series volume 5, pp. 56-65.

*Preunkert, Jenny (together with Martin Heidenreich) 2019: Architectures, modes and conflicts. The Europeanization of social fields and the social space. In: Heidenreich, Martin (ed.): Horizontal Europeanization: The transnationalization of daily life and social fields in Europe. London: Routledge. S. 205-222.

*Preunkert, Jenny 2016: The European integration process and the social consequences of the crisis. In Heidenreich, Martin (ed.): Inequalities in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. S. 220-235.

Preunkert, Jenny 2015: The hidden side of the crisis. In: Luís Baptista, Jenny Preunkert and Georg Vobruba (eds.): Aftermath. Political and urban consequences of the eurocrisis. Lisbon: Edicoes Colibri. S.185-202.

Preunkert, Jenny 2015: The end of an illusion. The political consequences of the euro crisis. In: Kraemer Klaus and Sebastian Nessel (eds.): Money and Crisis - The Social Foundations of Modern Monetary Orders. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. S. 241-257.

Preunkert, Jenny 2015: The hidden side of the crisis. In: Jenny Preunkert and Georg Vobruba (eds.): Crisis and Integration. Societal formation in the euro crisis. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. S. 3-20.

Preunkert, Jenny 2015: Double Trust - Creditors' and people's confidence in the euro crisis. In: Daniel Innerarity et al. (eds.): The Future of Europe. Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice After the Euro Crisis. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. S. 157-169.

Preunkert, Jenny 2014: Trust and Currency: The Functional Preconditions and Problems of the Euro. In: Boyka Stefanova (ed.): The European Union Beyond the Crisis: Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield. S. 47-63.

Preunkert, Jenny 2014: Trust in the crisis - trust as an attribution of responsibility. In: Thilo Fehmel, Stephan Lessenich and Jenny Preunkert (eds.): Systemzwang und Akteurswissen. Theory and empiricism of autonomy gains. Frankfurt a. M.: Campus. S. 175-195.

Preunkert, Jenny 2014: The euro in the crisis of confidence. In: Martina Löw (ed.): Diversity and cohesion. Proceedings of the 36th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bochum and Dortmund 2012. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. S. 335-346.

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Georg Vobruba) 2012: Die Eurokrise - Konsequenzen der defizitären Institutionalisierung der gemeinsamen Währung. In: Klaus Kraemer and Sebastian Nessel (eds.): Entfesselte Finanzmärkte. Sociological Analyses of Modern Capitalism, Frankfurt am Main: Campus. S. 201-224.

*Preunkert, Jenny (together with Sascha Zirra) 2009: Europeanization of Domestic Employment and Welfare Regimes: The German, French and Italian Experiences. In: Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin (eds.): Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes: The Influence of the OMC on National Labour Market and Social Welfare Reforms. London: Routledge. S. 192-113.

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Sascha Zirra) 2009: The Europeanization of National Labour Market Reforms: The impact of the European Employment Strategy in Germany, France and Italy. In: Hartmut Seifert and Olaf Struck (eds.): Labor Market and Social Policy. Controversies about efficiency and security. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaft. S. 287-314.

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Sascha Zirra) 2009: Soziale Eingliederung in Deutschland, Frankreich und Italien. In: Stamatia Devetzi and Hans-Wolfgang Platzer (eds.): The Open Method of Coordination and the European Social Model. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag. S. 267-299.

 

Lectures (selection)

Preunkert, Jenny (together with Stefan Wallaschek): Europe does not exist, does it? An analysis of sociological teaching content. Presented at the online brown bag seminar of the Section for European Sociology in February 2024

Preunkert, Jenny 2023: Housing standards in Europe. Presented at the conference "Transformative Change in the Contested Fields of Care and Housing in Europe" in December at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz

Preunkert, Jenny 2022: Debt, a polarization mechanism. The social structure of private debt. Presented at the 41st Congress "Polarized Worlds" of the German Sociological Association in September 2022 in Bielefeld.

Preunkert, Jenny 2022: Primary Dealer Systems as Power Figurations. Presented at the DVPW Political Economy Section Conference "Who wins, who loses? Tense Distributional Conflicts in Times of Multiple Crises in September 2022 in Berlin.

Preunkert, Jenny 2021: 'Whatever it takes': Societal fractures as a result of the euro and sovereign debt crisis. Presented at the conference "Das abgehängte Drittel? Social Cohesion in Times of Polarization" at the Academy for Civic Education in June 2021 in Tutzing (Germany).

Preunkert, Jenny 2020: Monetary policy in the field of tension between market neutrality and climate change. Presented at the online symposium "Europäische Klimapolitik - zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit" of the Center for Applied European Studies of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences in November 2020.

Preunkert, Jenny 2020: On a transnational "bank-sovereign nexus": The European Primary Dealer Systems. Presented at the online conference "Risikopraktiken im Staats-Finanz-Nexus. On the Relationality of State and Financial Practice" in August 2020.

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