PD Dr. Anja Röcke

Contact

Saarland University
Department of European Social Research
Campus
Building C5 3
Room 0.07
66123 Saarbrücken

anja.roecke(at)uni-saarland.de

 

Academic and professional experience

  • Since october 2023: Assistant professor ("Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin") (Postdoc) at the chair of Sociology with special focus on Europe, University of Saarland
  • 2020–2022: Visiting professor, Chair for Macro Sociology (prof. Steffen Mau), Humboldt-University (winter terms 2020–21, 2021–22, summer term 2022)
  • 06/2020–2022: Assistant Professor (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”), Chair for General Sociology and Cultural Sociology (prof. Andreas Reckwitz), Humboldt-University
  • 2019–2020: Visiting Professor, Chair for General Sociology (prof. Hans-Peter Müller), Humboldt-University (winter term)
  • 2009–2019: Assistant Professor, Chair for General Sociology, Humboldt-University
  • 2011, 2013: Parental leave (7 and 9 months)
  • 2009–2010: Editor of the Berliner Journal für Soziologie
  • 2006–2007: External evaluation of “Participatory school budget”, Poitou-Charentes, France
  • 2005–2009: Ph.D. program at the European University Institute, Florence; Associate doctoral student at Berlin Graduate School for Social Sciences and at Marc Bloch Centre Berlin
  • 2004–2005: First year of dissertation as “co-tutelle”, Humboldt-University and Paris 8 University; Research assistant to Prof. H.-P. Müller, Humboldt University, research project “Participatory Budget in Europe” (with CMB Berlin, Hans Böckler Foundation)
  • 2002–2004: Research assistant to Prof. Y. Sintomer at the CMB Berlin, project “Berlin Citizen Juries”, supported by the French Ministry for Research
  • 2000–2001: Ecole Normale Supérieure Cachan/Paris (Erasmus)
  • 1998–2004: Studies in Social Sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin (grade: excellent)

 

Areas of specialisation

  • Cultural sociology, sociological theory, general sociology, political sociology
  • Self-optimisation and digitalisation, Conduct of life, Therapeutic Cultures, Democratic innovations, transnationalisation and globalisation
  • Qualitative methods, comparative and transnational research

Member of the international Networt "Popular Psychology, Self-Help Culture and the Happiness Industry"

Publications

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