Research Area Coordinators

Professor of Anthropogeography at the Institute for Geosciences and Geography, MLU Halle-Wittenberg

Education:

• 2017 Akademischer Oberrat auf Zeit, Geographisches Institut, Universität Bonn
• 2015-2017 Vertretungsprofessur, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie, Institut für Geographie, TU Dresden
• 2015 Habilitation, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrgebiet Geographie, Universität Bonn
• 2013-2015 Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, Geographisches Institut, Universität Bonn
• 2009-2013 Akademischer Rat auf Zeit, Geographisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth
• 2008-2009 ESRC Post-Doc Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
• 2008 Promotion Dr. phil., Dissertation im Fach Geographie, Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

Selected publications:

• Schäfer, S. & Everts, J. (Hg.) (2019). Handbuch Praktiken und Raum. Humangeographie nach dem Practice Turn. Transcript: Bielefeld.
  
• Jackson, P., Brembeck, H., Everts, J., Fuentes, M., Halkier, B., Hertz, F., Meah, A., Viehoff, V. & Wenzl, C. (2018). Reframing Convenience Food: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Everts, J. (2008): Konsum und Multikulturalität im Stadtteil. Eine sozialgeographische Analyse migrantengeführter Lebensmittelgeschäfte. Transcript: Bielefeld.

© Steffen Marung

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2020: Senior Researcher and Director M.A. Program „Global Studies“ at the Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University
• Since 2020: Principal Investigator of “’Free radicals’? Political mobilities and post-colonial processes of re-spatialization in the second half of the 20th century“ at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 at Leipzig University
• 2016 – 2019: Senior Researcher, Central Project at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 at Leipzig University
• 2015: PostDoc Fellow at the German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia; PostDoc Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Siences de l’Homme, Paris, France
• 2014 – 2019: Co-Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded international research project “Socialism Goes Global” (led by Prof. James Mark, University of Exeter, UK)
• Since 2012: Lecturer at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University
• 11/2011: PhD in Global Studies at Leipzig University, published as „Die wandernde Grenze. Die EU, Polen und der globale Wandel politischer Räume, 1990-2010“ (Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht 2013)
• 2011 –2015: Senior Researcher, Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig University
• Since 2012: Lecturer at the Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Research Academy Leipzig
• 2006 – 2010: Junior Researcher, Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe (GWZO), Leipzig (now: Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe)
• Since 2006: Lecturer, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University
• 1997 – 2004: Studies in Political Science and German Literature at University of Halle-Wittenberg, Humboldt University Berlin, Charles University in Prague

Selected Publications

• Marung, S. (2021): “Out of Empire into Socialist Modernity Soviet-African (Dis)Connections and Global Intellectual Geographies”. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 41 (1). S. in print.
• Mark, J., Kalinovsky, A., Marung, S. (eds.) (2020): Alternative Globalizations: Encounters between the Eastern Bloc and the Postcolonial World. Indiana University Press. Bloomington.
• Marung, S., Troebst, S., Müller, U. (2019): “Monolith or Experiment? The Bloc as a Spatial Format”. In: Middell, M., Marung, S. (eds.). Spatial Formats under the Global Condition. De Gruyter. Berlin. S. 275-309.
• Middell, M., Marung, S. (eds.) (2019): Re-spatializations under the Global Condition. Towards a typology of spatial formats. De Gruyter. Berlin, Boston.

Senior Researcher at IfL, Coordinator of the Research Group of Mobilities and Migration, Department: Regional Geography of Europe

Education:

• At the IfL since November 2012
• 2011–2012: Visiting lecturer at the Central Asian Seminar
• 2009–2012: Doctoral studies at the Central Asian Seminar of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2008–2009: Head of advanced training in transborder construction management for Vinci Construction’s international subsidiaries
• 2002–2007: Studies in comparative political science and European studies in Nancy and Paris

Selected publications:

• Sgibnev, Wladimir (2020): Mapping Khujand : the governance of spatial representation in post-socialist Tajikistan. In: Socialist and post-socialist urbanisms: critical reflections from a global perspective. – Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Seite 282-299.
• Sgibnev, Wladimir / Rekhviashvili, Lela (2020): Marschrutkas : digitalisation, sustainability and mobility justice in a low-tech mobility sector. In: Transportation research. Part A, policy and practice, 138 (2020), Seite 342-352.
• Sgibnev, Wladimir (2019): Living switches. In: Repair, brokenness, breakthrough : ethnographic responses / edited by Francisco Martínez and Patrick Laviolette. – New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019. – (Politics of repair ; 1), 2019, Seite 293-296.
• Tuvikene, Tauri / Sgibnev, Wladimir / Zupan, Daniela / Jovanović, Deana / Neugebauer, Carola S. (2019): Post-socialist infrastructuring.In: Area, 2019, Seite 1-8.

© GWZO

Head of Department “Entanglements and Globalization” at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2017: Department Head, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of EasternEurope (GWZO), Leipzig
• 2006-2016: Project director, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
• 2011: Honorary Professor for Cultural History of East Central Europe, Leipzig University
• 2001-2004: Executive Coordinator, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
• 2000-2016: GWZO research coordinator for the history of the 19^th and 20^th century
• 1996-1999: DFG Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig
• 1992-1995: Research Fellow, Max Planck Society’s “Forschungsschwerpunkt Ostmitteleuropa” in Berlin
• 1989: Doctorate Dr. phil., dissertation “The beginnings of Czechoslovak foreign policy 1914-1919”
• 1986-1991: Researcher, Institute for General History of the Academy of Sciences, GDR in Berlin
• 1984-1986: Researcher, Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences, GDR in Berlin
• 1984: PhDr.-Diploma in History “The national split of Moravian historiography in the 19th century”
• 1980-1984: Study of History, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

Selected Publications

• Hadler, F. & Middell, M. (2017): Handbuch einer transnationalen Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas. Band I. Von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht. Göttingen.
• Hadler, F. & Makowski, K. (2013): Approaches to Slavic Unity. Austro-Slavism, Pan-Slavism, NeoSlavism, and Solidarity Among the Slavs Today. Instytut Historii UAM. Poznan.
• Hadler, F. & Frank, T. (2011): Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts. Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe. Palgrave Basingstoke. (2nd Edition 2015).

© Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research Group, German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether Research Group “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

Curriculum Vitae

2018-2019: ERC Research Fellow, “Western Banks in Eastern Europe: New Geographies of Financialisation” (GEOFIN), Trinity College Dublin

2015-2018: Research Fellow, “Financialization” Research Group, Department “Resilience and Transformation in Eurasia”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

2014-2015: Research Fellow, Institute of Social Anthropology, Comenius University, Bratislava

2014: PhD, Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics

2009: MSc Anthropology and Development, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics

Selected Publications

• Mikuš, M. and Rodik, P., eds. (forthcoming) Households and financialization in Europe: mapping variegated patterns in semi-peripheries. Abington.
• Mikuš, M. (2019): Contesting household debt in Croatia: the double movement of financialization and the fetishism of money in Eastern European peripheries.Dialectical Anthropology 43(3), p. 295–315.
• Mikuš, M. (2018): Between recognition and redistribution: disability, (human) rights, and struggles over welfare in Serbia.Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(2), p. 293–312.
• Mikuš, M. (2018): Frontiers of civil society: government and hegemony in Serbia. Berghahn Books. New York.

Dr. Marek Mikuš introduces himself and his research in a short video.

© Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL)

Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Research Area: Multiple Geographies of Regional and Local Development, Department: Regional Geographies of Europe

Curriculum Vitae

• 2010-2015: PhD candidate, Doctoral school of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations, Political Economic track, Central European University, Budapest
• 2013-2014: PhD Fellow, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Leipzig
• 2012-2013: Research Fellow, Center for Social Sciences, Tbilisi
• 2009-2010: MA studies in Political Science, Central European University, Budapest
• 2007-2009: MA studies in Transition in South Caucasus, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Tbilisi State University, Centre for Social Sciences

Selected Publications

• Kębłowski, W. & Rekhviashvili, L. (2020): Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels. In: Geoforum. Published online 2020.
• Sgibnev, W. & Rekhviashvili, L. (2020): Marschrutkas: digitalisation, sustainability and mobility justice in a low-tech mobility sector. In: Transportation research. Part A, policy and practice, 138 (2020), pp. 342-352.
• Rekhviashvili, L. & Sgibnev, W. (2019): Theorising informality and social embeddedness for the study of informal transport: lessons from the marshrutka mobility phenomenon. In: Journal of transport geography, 2019.
• Rekhviashvili, L. & Sgibnev, W. (2018): Placing transport workers on the agenda: the conflicting logics of governing mobility on Bishkek’s marshrutkas. In: Antipode / 50 (2018) 5, pp. 1376-1395.

© Anne Günther (Universität Jena)

Dean of Study Affairs of the Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography, Chair of Economic Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Speaker of the steering committee of the Leibniz ScienceCampus „Eastern Europe – Global Area“ (EEGA)

Curriculum Vitae

• 2016-2019: Executive Director, Institute of Geography, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
• Since 2014: Full Professor (Chair) in Economic Geography, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
• 2014: Habilitation, “Transnational entrepreneurs and knowledge-based regional development. A study using the diamond sector as an example”, Department of Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 2012-2014: Researcher, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Department: Regional Geographies of Europe
• 2011-2012: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department for Political Science, University of Toronto
• 2010-2011: Substitute Professor, Cultural Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg; Additional Lecturer, Halle
• 2001-2011: Researcher, Department of Economic Geography, Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 2006-2008: Lecturer, Institute of Geography, TU Dresden, Chair of General Economic and Social Geography
• 2006: Doctorate Dr. rer. nat., dissertation “Clusters in nanotechnology. Origin, properties, recommendations for action”, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 1999-2001: Studies of Geography, Public Law, Economics and Business Administration, University of Mannheim
• 1997-1999: Studies of Geography, Economics and Public Law, University of Heidelberg

Selected Publications

• Henn, S. & Schäfer, S. (2020): Migrants and Cluster Internationalization: Case Studies of Antwerp and Tel Aviv. In: Fornahl, D., Grashof, N. (Hrsg.). Regional Clusters in a Global World – Between Localization and Internationalization Advantages. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (im Druck).
• Franz, M. & Henn, S. (2020): Multinationals from the BRIC-countries investing in German firms: Impacts on industrial relations. In: Industrielle Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Arbeit, Organisation und Management. 1/2020, S. 3-18.
• Henn, S. & Behling, M. (2020): Lokale Ökonomie – Begriff, Merkmale und konzeptionelle Abgrenzung. In: Henn, S., Behling, M. & Schäfer, S. (Hrsg.): Lokale Ökonomien. Konzepte, Quartiersentwicklung und Interventionen. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. S. 3-24.
• Schäfer, S. & Henn, S. (2018): The evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems and the critical role of migrants. A Phase-Model based on a Study of IT startups in the Greater Tel Aviv Area. In: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Econmy and Society, 11(2), pp. 317-333.

© Institute of Regional Geography (IfL)

Senior Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL), Research Area: Multiple Geographies of Regional and Local Development, Department: Regional Geographies of Europe

Curriculum Vitae

• 2014-2015: Docent, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia
• 2013-2014: Researcher, the Barents Institute, Kirkenes, Norway
• 2011-2013: Postdoctoral Researcher, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
• 2011: Research Associate, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff, UK
• 2010: PhD, Cardiff University, School of City and Regional Planning, UK
• 2006-2009: Urban Planner, Ove Arup International, Cardiff, UK
• 2005: MA in Political Science, University of Missouri in St. Louis, USA
• 2002: MSc in Urban Planning, Cardiff University School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff, UK
• 1996: Diploma in Architecture (Distinction), Kazan State Academy of Architecture and Building, Kazan, Russia

Selected Publications

• Kinossian, N. (2019): New research agenda: agents of change in peripheral regions. In: Baltic worlds, 12 (2019), 2, pp. 61-66.
• Kinossian, N. (2018): Planning strategies and practices in non-core regions: a critical response. Special issue: Re-thinking non-core regions: Planning strategies and practice beyond growth. In: European Planning Studies 26(2), pp. 365-375.
• Kinossian N. (2017) Re-colonising the Arctic: the preparation of spatial planning policy in Murmansk Oblast’, Russia. In: Environment and Planning C – Politics and Space 35(2), pp. 221–238. doi: 10.1177/0263774X16648331
• Gerlach, J. & Kinossian, N. (2016): Cultural landscape of the Arctic: ‘Recycling’ of Soviet imagery in the Russian settlements on Svalbard (Norway). In: Polar Geography 39(1), pp. 1–19.

© Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)/Markus Scholz

Researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Department: Agricultural Markets, Marketing and World Agricultural Trade (Agricultural Markets) and coordinator of the China International Research Group at Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

Curriculum Vitae

2019- : Steering Panel Central Asia Research Group, IAMO

2017- : Post-Doc researcher, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies

2016: Coordinator China Research Group, IAMO; Speaker Research Area Livelihood in Rural Areas, IAMO

2012-2017: PhD, Faculty of Law and Economics, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, analysis of the anti-poverty effect of income transfer in rural China

Selected Publications

• Jingdong, Z., Kuhn, L., Wang, T.,Liu, C., Luo, R. (2020): The interrelationships between parental migration, home environment, and early child development in rural China: A cross-sectional study. In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 11 (17), pp. 1-13.
• Kuhn, L., Balezentis, T.,Hou, L., Wang, D (2020): Technical and environmental efficiency of livestock farms in China: A slacks-based DEA approach. In: China Economic Review 62.
• Loy, J.-P., Ceynova, C. & Kuhn, L. (2020): Price recall: Brand and store type differences. In: Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 53.
• Hou, L., Chen, X., Kuhn, L. & Huang, J. (2019): The effectiveness of regulations and technologies on sustainable use of crop residue in Northeast China. In: Energy Economics 81, pp. 519-527.

© GWZO

Senior Researcher and Collaborative Research Project Manager at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)

Curriculum Vitae

• 2008-2011: Researcher, Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Chair of Economic and Social History
• 1999-2008: Researcher, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, Chair of Comparative European Economic and Social History
• 1997: Doctorate, Dr. rer. pol., dissertation on road building policy in the 19^th century (summa cum laude)
• 1993-1999: Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin, Faculty of Economics, Institute for Economic History
• 1992-1993: Researcher, German National Library in Leipzig, German Museum of Books and Writing
• 1988-1992: PhD Student, University of Leipzig, Institute for Universal and Cultural History of the Modern Age
• 1983-1988: Studies in history, Karl Marx University Leipzig (today University of Leipzig)

Selected Publications

• Müller, U. & Kouli, Y. (2020): Die ökonomischen Folgen der Westverschiebung Polens nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (68), 2020/1.
• Müller, U. & Jajeśniak-Quast, D. (2017): Comecon revisited. Integration in the Eastern Bloc and Entanglements with the Global Economy. Comparative 2017/5-6.
• Müller, U. (2014): Economic Entanglements of East Central and Southeast Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2014/ 1.
• Müller, U., Kubů, E., Lorenz, T. & Šouša, J. (2013): Agrarismus und Agrareliten in Ostmitteleuropa. Berlin. Prag.

© GWZO

Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Handbook of a “Transnational History of East Central Europe” at Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)

Curriculum Vitae

• 2013-2016: Visiting Researcher, University of Arhus, Denmark
• 2012: PhD, University of Leipzig, study on World History in Teaching and Research, Universities of Chicago, Columbia and Harvard (1918-1968)
• 2009: Guest Researcher, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Paris, France
• Studies in Medieval and Modern History, Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Leipzig, Edinburgh and Vienna

Selected Publications

• Naumann, K. (2019): “…the inner working of this unique machinery”: Das Sekretariat und die Health Section des Völkerbunds in transnationaler Perpektive. Jahresheft des Leibniz-Instituts für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europas (GWZO), p. 19-23.
• Middell, M & Naumann, K. (2019): Historian and International Organizations: The International Committee of Historian Sciences. In: International Organizations and Global Civil Society: Histories of the Union of International Associations, eds. Laqua, D., Van Acker, W. & Vebruggen, C. Indiana. Bloomsbury, p. 133-151
• Naumann, K. (2018): Laboratorien der Weltgeschichtsschreibung: Lehre und Forschung an den Universitäten Chicago, Columbia und Harvard von 1918 bis 1968. Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. Göttingen.
• Naumann, K. Loschke, T., Marung, S. & Middell, M. (2018): In Search of Other Worlds. Essay towards a Cross-Regional History of Area Studies. Leipziger Universitätsverlag. Leipzig.

© Leipzig University

Professor of Musicology and Director of the Musicological Institute at the University of Leipzig

Curriculum Vitae

• 2016-19: Professor, University Toulouse – Jean Jaurès
• 2014/15: Guest Professorship, Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2013/14: Guest Professorship, University of Zurich
• 2011-16: Director of the DFG-Research Project “Leipzig and the Internationalisation of the Symphonic Repertoire, 1835-1914”
• 2008: Habilitation, Leipzig University, with a book on German-Polish intercultural transfer of the symphony
• 2001: Doctorate, Martin Luther University (MLU) Halle-Wittenberg, with a dissertation on O. Messiaen’s opera „Saint François d’Assise“ (published by Georg Olms Verlag. Hildesheim 2002)

Selected Publications

• Keym, S. (2020): Enzyklopädie-Artikel „Musik und Kulturtransfer“. In: MGG Online (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart). Lütteken, L. (Hrsg.). 2020.
• Keym, S., & Groote, I. M., eds. (2018): Russische Musik in Westeuropa bis 1917: Ideen – Funktionen – edition text & kritik. München.
• Keym, S. (2010): Symphonie-Kulturtransfer: Untersuchungen zum Studienaufenthalt polnischer Komponisten in Deutschland und zu ihrer Auseinandersetzung mit der symphonischen Tradition 1967-1918. Georg Olms Verlag. Hildesheim.
• Keym, S., & Loos, H., eds. (2004): Nationale Musik im 20. Jahrhundert. Kompositorische und soziokulturelle Aspekte der Musikgeschichte zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa. Gudrun Schröder Verlag. Leipzig.

© Markus Scholz

Professor of Eastern European History at Martin Luther University (MLU) Halle-Wittenberg and Executive Director of the Aleksander Brückner Centre for Polish Studies

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2014: Professor of Eastern European History, Martin Luther University (MLU) Halle-Wittenberg; Executive Director, Aleksander Brückner Centre for Polish Studies
• 2008-2013: Head of the Emmy Noether Group, „Pathways of Law in Ethno-religiously Mixed Societies. Resources of Experience in Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States“, Institute for Slavic Studies (Cultural Studies of East Central Europe), University of Leipzig
• 2007-2008: Researcher and coordinator, project „Religious Peace and Modes of Coping with Religious/Confessional Conflicts in East Central Europe (16th-19th Centuries)“, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
• 2002-2006: Postdoc Researcher, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish history and culture; Teaching, University of Leipzig
• 2003: PhD, East European History, University of Cologne, “New Places – New People? Jewish Forms of Life in St. Petersburg and Moscow in the 19^th century”
• 2000-2001: Research Fellow, Jewish Museum Berlin: preparation of the permanent exhibition
• 1996-2000: Research Fellow, Institute for Eastern European History, University of Mainz
• 1989/90-1996: Studies in Eastern European History, Slavic Studies, Theatre, Film and Television Studies in Cologne, Mainz and Paris (Sorbonne, EHESS)

Selected Publications

• Gulińska-Jurgiel, P., Kleinmann, Y., Řezník, M. & Warneck, D. (2019): Ends of War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Past and New Polish Regions after 1944. Wallstein. Göttingen.
• Kleinmann, Y., Heyde, J., Hüchtker, D., Kalwa, D., Nalewajko-Kulikov, J., Steffen, K. & Wiślicz, T. (2017): Imaginations and Configurations of Polish Society: From the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. Wallstein. Göttingen.
• Kleinmann, Y., Stach, S. & Wilson, T. L. (2016): Religion in the Mirror of Law. Eastern European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period to 1939. Klostermann. Frankfurt a.M.
• Kleinmann, Y. & Rabus, A. (2015): Aleksander Brückner revisited. Debatten um Polen und Polentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Wallstein. Göttingen.

© Leipzig University

Professor of Sociology of Religion and Church Sociology at the Institute for Practical Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Leipzig

Curriculum Vitae

• Since 2019: Co-Speaker of the Research Institute Social Cohesion, Leipzig
• Since 2019: Deputy Equal Opportunity Commissioner, Faculty of Theology, Leipzig University
• 2013-2016: Dean, Faculty of Theology, Leipzig University
• 2009-2013: Vice-dean, Faculty of Theology, Leipzig University
• 2008: Habilitation, PD Dr. phil. habil., Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald, „The Anchoring of Democracy in Eastern Europe – Status, Reasons and Consequences of Population Attitudes in the Young Democracies of Eastern Europe“
• 2007-2009: Chair Representative, „Sociology of Church and Religion“, Theological Faculty, Leipzig University
• 2006: Guest Stays, University of Bucharest, Ljubljana and Sofia
• 2004-2005: Chair Representative, comparative cultural sociology, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
• 2002: Doctorate, Dr. phil., European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), „Youth and disenchantment with politics – Two political cultures in Germany after unification“
• 2001-2007: Administration Coordinator, EU project, „Values Systems of the Citizens and Socio-Economic Conditions – Challenges from Democratisation for the EU-Enlargement“, (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald/Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1996-2001: Research assistant, Chair for Comparative Cultural Sociology, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Europa-University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1992-1996: Researcher, Social Science Research Centre, University of Bamberg, DFG project „Intergenerative Transfer Relations in West and East Germany” and „Options for shaping the lives of young couples in East and West Germany“ (BM Family and Senior Citizens)
• 1992: Diploma, Political Science
• 1991: Diploma, Sociology
• 1987-1992: Studies in Political Science, University of Bamberg
• 1985-1991: Studies in Sociology, University of Bamberg

Selected Publications

• Pickel, G., Kailitz, S., Decker, O., Röder, A. & Schultze-Wessel, J. (2020): Handbuch Integration. Springer VS. Wiesbaden.
• Lauth, H.-J., Pickel, G. & Pickel, S. (2014): Vergleich und Analyse politischer Systeme. Schöningh. Paderborn.
• Pollack, D., Müller, O. & Pickel, G. (eds.) (2012): The Social Significance of Religion in the Enlarged Europe. Secularization, Individualization and Pluralization. Ashgate. Farnham.
• Pickel, G. & Sammet, K. (eds.) (2012): Transformations of Religiosity – Religion and Religiosity in Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2010. Springer VS. Wiesbaden.
• Pickel, G. (2011): Religionssoziologie. Eine Einführung in zentrale Themenbereiche. Springer VS. Wiesbaden.

© Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt (GFZ)

Researcher at Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), Leipzig University and Post Doc Researcher at Research Institute Social Cohesion

Curriculum Vitae

• 2019: Interim Professor, Sociology of Religion and Church, Leipzig University
• 2017-2019: Research Fellow, Department of Medical Psychology/Medical Sociology, Leipzig University
• Since 2017: Research Assistant, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
• 2017: Visiting Scholar, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal
• 2016-2017: Contract Lecturer, Katholische Privatuniversität Linz
• 2016: ERASMUS Plus Lecturer, Kingston University London
• 2014: Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Education Studies, University of Warwick
• 2013-2017: Research Fellow, Department of the Sociology of Church and Religion, Leipzig University
• 2013-2014: Contract Lecturer, Institute of Sociology, University of Münster
• 2009-2013: Research Fellow, Chair of the Sociology of Religion at the Institute of Sociology and the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics”, University of Münster
• 2008-2009: University Lecturer, Institute of Sociology, University of Münster
• 2007-2008: Coordinator, Graduate School of Sociology, University of Münster
• 2007-2009: Contract Lecturer, Methods and Statistics, mibeg-Institute, Cologne
• 2008-2014: PhD, Sociology, University of Münster, dissertation title “Social inequalities in Continuing Vocational Training”
• 2006-2007: Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, University of Münster, e-learning project “Experiencing statistics…”
• 2004-2007: Research Fellow, Institute of Social Pedagogy, Further Education and Empirical Pedagogy, Department of Adult Education/Extracurricular Youth Education, University of Münster
• 2002-2003: Research Fellow, Emmy Noether Programme’s Group of Young Researchers of the German Research Foundation (DFG, “Integration activities of voluntary associations”, Human Sciences Faculty, University of Potsdam
• 2001-2002: Graduate Assistant, Centre for Women’s Health Research, Institute of Human Genetics, Münster University Hospital
• 1998-2002: Studies in Sociology (major), Political Science and Educational Science (minor)
• 1994-1997: Basic study period, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Selected Publications

• Yendell, A. & Huber, S. (2020): Negative views of Islam in Switzerland with special regard to religiosity as an explanatory factor. In: Journal for Religion, Society and Politics.
• Yendell, A. & Huber, S. (2020): The Relevance of the Centrality and Content of Religiosity for Explaining Islamophobia in Switzerland. In: Religions 11 (3), 129.
• Huber, S. & Yendell, A. (2019): Does religiosity matter? Explaining right-wing extremist attitudes and the vote for the Alternative for Germany (AfD). In: Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe 12 (1), p. 63-83.
• Yendell, A. & Pickel, G. (2019): Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony – theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys. In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies 32 (3). p. 1–15.