Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions

since 09/2024 PI of the FWF-funded research project "Justification Debates on Livestock Production in Germany" (three years)
since 11/2021 Visiting Researcher at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research (HIS)
since 4/2021 Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Graz
10/2020 – 09/2023 APART-GSK fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW); research project on "The Sociology of Vulnerability" (three years)
2017 – 2020 Assistant Professor (postdoc) (Universitätsassistent mit Doktorat), Department of Sociology, University of Graz
3–4/2013 Visiting Scholar, Northwestern University (Evanston)
2010 – 2017 Assistant Professor (predoc)(Universitätsassistent ohne Doktorat), Department of Sociology, University of Graz
2010 – 2017 Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies; University of Erfurt
2009 – 2010 Doctoral Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies; University of Erfurt
2008 – 2009 Research Assistant, project on Marcel Mauss, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) ("Die elementaren Diskurse der Gabe. Marcel Mauss' paradigmatische Wirkung auf die gegenwärtigen Sozial- und Kulturtheorien"), project head Prof. Stephan Moebius

10/2021 Habilitation, Sociology, University of Graz
4/2017 Doctorate (Dr. phil), University of Graz and Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt (Cotutelle)
2001 – 2007 Magister studies in Political Science, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Freiburg and University of Toronto

Sociological theory, microsociology, sociology of violence, cultural sociology, political sociology, history of sociology

2019 Dewey Lecture, University of St. Gallen
2019 Josef Krainer-sponsorship award (Josef Krainer-Förderungspreis) in the category "social sciences"
2019 Max Weber Award for Junior Scholars (Max-Weber-Preis für Nachwuchsforschung)
2018-19 Nomination Teaching Award (Lehre: Ausgezeichnet!) by the students of the course „Introduction to Microsociology“
2014-15 Nomination Ars docendi national award for excellence in teaching (Ars docendi-Staatspreis für exzellente Lehre) by the Austrian Students' Association (ÖH) and the rectorate of the University of Graz
2014-15 Nomination Teaching Award (Lehre: Ausgezeichnet!) by the students of the course „Geschichte der Soziologie II: Gegenwartssoziologie“

Priv.-Doz. Dr.phil. M.A.

Institut für Soziologie

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