Curriculum Vitae
University Education
1968-1972
Studied Cultural Studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin.
1973
Graduation (Dipl. phil.)
1972-1975
Study grant to do a doctorate in Sociology at Humboldt-University
1977
Promotion A (Dr. phil.) with a dissertation on: “Fundamental questions in Marxist-Leninist sociology of the family”, Humboldt-University
1986
Promotion B (Dr. sc. phil.) with a dissertation on “Gender socialization in the family and as a function of the social division of labor: An education sociology approach to explaining the formulation for female and male social identity”, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Professional Experience
1972-1977
Appointed to a lectureship at the Sociology Department of Humboldt-University at Berlin
1977-1987
Fellow of the Educational Sociology Department at the Academy of Educational Sciences of the GDR
Since 1987
Fellow of the Sociology Institute at Humboldt-University, Berlin
1988-1990
Deputy Director of the Sociology Institute at Humboldt-University, Berlin
1988
Appointed to a professorship (Dozentur) in the field of Sociological Theory at Humboldt-University, Berlin Lectures and seminars in Sociological theory
1990-1993
Dean of the Social Science Faculty, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Since 1992
Full Professor, Humboldt-University, Sociology of Family, Youth and Gender (C 3), New title (1999) Sociology of work and gender
1990-2011
Co-Editor of the Berliner Journal für Soziologie, Berlin Journal of Sociology
Administrative Experience
2004-2006
Member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation/Grant Committee on Research Training
2003-2004
Director of the Institute for Social Science, HU
2002/02-08
State Secretary for Economy, Labour and Women at the Senate of the State of Berlin
1999-2002
Speaker of the Section of Women’s Studies of the German Sociological Association
1996-2000
Member of the Council of the German Sociological Association
1996-2003
Referee for empirical social research/member of the Review Board of the German Research Foundation
1993-2002
Director of the “Interdisciplinary Centre of Women’s Studies”, Humboldt-University, Berlin
2002-2010
Vice Speaker of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at Humboldt-University
2000-2011
Speaker of the afg (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung Berliner Hochschulen), Network Gender and Women’s Studies of Berlin Universities
Recent Related Research Activities
“The integration of highly qualified migrant women into the German Labour market”, joint project with Hamburg University of Technology and RW TH Aachen University, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research 2009 – 2011
“Commodification and subjectivation of labour. The new politics of labour and gender relations at the working place” (funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2006-2008) - field of research Deutsche Bahn AG
Human Security and Culture, joint project with University of Toronto since 2005
„Female Skills Carrers in Banking” (funded by Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2002; 2012-2013) – field of research Landesbank Berlin
Research Fields
Sociology of gender relations
Sociology of work
Sociology of the service sector
Societal and organizational transformation processes
Women’s and Gender Studies
German unification and gender relations
Honours, Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Memberships in Professional Societies
2008 Fellow of the Goethe Institute, Uzbekistan
2007 Fellow of the Goethe Institute, Karachi, Pakistan
2001 Visiting professor, University Wolverhampton, England
1999 Visiting professor, Seoul, Korea
1997 Visiting professor, Duke University, USA
1996 Visiting professor, Indiana University, USA
1995 Visiting professor, University of Toronto, Canada
1991 Guest fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin
1995 Helge Pross Prize for Outstanding Research in the Field of Family and Gender Studies
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Collaborative Research Projects
Funding organisation: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Project title: The integration of highly qualified migrant women into the German Labour market
Function: Speaker
Speaker University: Humboldt-University
Funding organisation: German Research Foundation
Project title: Gender as a Category of Knowledge
Function: member of the research training group
Speaker University: Humboldt-University
Industry cooperation/Contacts to Organizations
Deutsche Bahn AG
Landesbank Berlin
Eisenbahngewerkschaft
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Senat of the State Berlin