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has been ed­u­cated as an econ­o­mist at the Uni­ver­sity of Mannheim/Ger­many. Later on he was teach­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Bochum (Ger­many) and hold­ing the Chair in 20th Cen­tury Eu­ro­pean His­tory at the Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity In­sti­tute, Flo­rence/Italy. He was hold­ing vis­it­ing fel­low­ships in Ox­ford, Göttin­gen, Cologne, St. Louis, Syd­ney, Tokyo and Bei­jing. Since 1991 he was teach­ing eco­nomic his­tory at the Fac­ulty of His­tory and Phi­los­o­phy at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld, where he is now Re­search Pro­fes­sor for the His­tory of So­cial Sci­ence. In 2011 the Ger­man Fed­eral Min­istry of Eco­nom­ics and Tech­nol­ogy ap­pointed him to a mem­ber of its In­de­pen­dent His­tor­i­cal Com­mis­sion. In this con­text he is co-​editor and co-​author of "Wirtschaft­spoli­tik in Deutsch­land 1917-​1990" (Ger­man eco­nomic pol­icy 1917-​1990), 4 vol., Berlin, Boston 2016.

His pub­li­ca­tions in­clude books and ar­ti­cles on the his­tory of Eu­ro­pean in­te­gra­tion, eco­nomic his­tory, and busi­ness his­tory. His stan­dard work on Ger­man eco­nomic his­tory had sev­eral edi­tions since 1983. A new edi­tion has been pub­lished in 2011 (sec­ond Chi­nese edi­tion 2019). Two of his books have been trans­lated into Eng­lish: The Dy­nam­ics of Ger­man In­dus­try. Ger­many's Path to­ward the New Econ­omy and the Amer­i­can Chal­lenge, Berghahn Books: New York, Ox­ford 2005; also in Japan­ese: Tokyo Uni­ver­sity Press: Tokyo 2009; Ger­man In­dus­try and Global En­ter­prise. BASF: The His­tory of a Com­pany, Cam­bridge Uni­ver­sity Press: New York, Ox­ford 2004.

is a se­nior re­searcher and sci­en­tific co­or­di­na­tor in the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He ac­com­plished his bi-​national PhD in 2012 in Za­cate­cas and Biele­feld on the topic of mi­gra­tion and de­vel­op­ment nexus. After 2013, Mustafa has been in­volved in teach­ing and re­search at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Cur­rently, he is work­ing on top­ics re­lated to a global South per­spec­tive on mi­gra­tion and de­vel­op­ment, World Pol­i­tics on mi­gra­tion, highly-​skilled mi­gra­tion in Eu­rope, so­cial trans­for­ma­tion in the global South and in­equal­i­ties. He has writ­ten var­i­ous aca­d­e­mic pub­li­ca­tions in these fields as well as in re­lated areas.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Pitkänen, P., Ko­r­pela, M., Schmidt, K., 2017): Char­ac­ter­is­tics of Tem­po­rary Mi­gra­tion in European-​Asian Transna­tional So­cial Spaces, Springer.
• (with Pitkänen, P., Hayakawa, T., Schmidt, K., Rajan, S., 2019): Tem­po­rary Mi­gra­tion, Trans­for­ma­tion and De­vel­op­ment: Ev­i­dence from Eu­rope and Asia, Rout­ledge.
• (Forth­com­ing): Mi­gra­tion and De­vel­op­ment in Latin Amer­ica: a Global South Per­spec­tive. Rout­ledge.

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the project “Analo­gies be­tween Com­par­isons as Mech­a­nisms of “De­par­tic­u­lar­iza­tion”? On the Con­struc­tion of Res­o­nances be­tween Colo­nial and Met­ro­pol­i­tan For­ma­tions of Com­par­isons in Na­tional “Found­ing De­bates” in the Ger­man Em­pire (1871-​1918)” at the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 1288 "Prac­tices of com­par­ing" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. In her dis­ser­ta­tion project, she fo­cuses on mis­sion­ary and social-​scientific com­mu­ni­ties of prac­tice that con­structed analo­gies in order to im­ple­ment a Protes­tant norm of re­li­gious sub­jec­tiv­ity. She holds a Bach­e­lor's de­gree in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and His­tory and a Mas­ter´s de­gree in Po­lit­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Be­fore join­ing the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 1288, she worked as a cam­paign man­ager dur­ing the par­lia­men­tary and state elec­tions and as a free­lance au­thor for “funk” (ZDF).

is Pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He is cur­rently also the speaker of the Re­search Train­ing Group 'World Pol­i­tics'. His cur­rent main re­search in­ter­ests are the so­ci­ol­ogy and his­tory of world pol­i­tics and world so­ci­ety the­ory. Other major re­search fields are the pol­i­tics of the polar re­gions and youth re­search.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (ed. with To­bias Wer­ron): What in the World? Un­der­stand­ing Global So­cial Change. Bris­tol: Bris­tol Uni­ver­sity Press 2021.
• (ed. with San­dra Holt­grewe and Karl­son Preuß) En­vi­sion­ing the World: Map­ping and Mak­ing the Global. Biele­feld: tran­script 2021.
• (with Felix Max­i­m­il­ian Bathon) "Quan­tum and sys­tems the­ory in world so­ci­ety: not broth­ers and sis­ters but rel­a­tives still?", Se­cu­rity Di­a­logue 51 (2020): on­line first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010619897874
• (with Ker­rin Langer) "Die Geschichte des Stre­itkräftev­er­gle­ichs in der in­ter­na­tionalen Poli­tik: Machtver­gle­iche und die Macht des Ver­gle­ichens", Zeitschrift für In­ter­na­tionale Beziehun­gen 27 (2020).

is an eco­nomic so­ci­ol­o­gist, work­ing with the DFG Re­search Train­ing Group “Cross-​border labor mar­kets: Transna­tional mar­ket mak­ers, in­fra­struc­tures, in­sti­tu­tions”, at Fakultät für Sozi­olo­gie, Uni­ver­sität Biele­feld. Her post­doc­toral re­search project in­ves­ti­gates the So­cial Con­struc­tion of (Mi­grant) Labour Con­tracts. Mi­grant em­ploy­ment con­tracts pro­vide a legal frame­work of pro­tec­tion while also har­bour­ing the po­ten­tial for fur­ther ex­ploita­tion. These con­tracts form the foun­da­tion of their cross-​border em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ships, and are in­flu­enced by a num­ber of ac­tors, in­ter­ests, and struc­tures of ex­pec­ta­tions and con­trol. The re­search project aims to ex­plore this spe­cific site of mi­grant labour mar­kets and study the so­cial con­struc­tion of con­tracts among mi­grant work­ers. The ex­pected out­comes of the project in­clude a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of labour mar­kets span­ning across na­tional bor­ders, a deeper com­pre­hen­sion of the role of bro­kers in me­di­at­ing transna­tional em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship and the socio-​legal in­ter­ac­tions within the con­tem­po­rary mi­gra­tion land­scape.

is a re­searcher in the DFG re­search project "A The­ory of World En­ti­ties" at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude inter-​organizational re­la­tions, global so­cial pol­icy and gov­er­nance, and in­sti­tu­tion­alised forms of in­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion. In her dis­ser­ta­tion project she ex­plores the In­ter­na­tional Labour Or­ga­ni­za­tion’s em­bed­ded­ness in its inter-​organizational en­vi­ron­ment. Iris holds a Bach­e­lor’s de­gree (B.A.) in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and So­cial An­thro­pol­ogy from the Uni­ver­sity of Göttin­gen and a Mas­ter’s de­gree (M.A.) in Pro­fes­sional Pub­lic De­ci­sion Mak­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of Bre­men.

is a re­searcher in the DFG re­search project "'Mak­ing up peo­ple' in world so­ci­ety: an­a­lyz­ing the in­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of global so­cial cat­e­gories" at the in­sti­tute of so­ci­ol­ogy of Tue­bin­gen Uni­ver­sity. From the per­spec­tive of the so­ci­ol­ogy of cat­e­go­riza­tion, com­par­i­son, and quan­tifi­ca­tion, her re­search fo­cuses on processes of global bound­ary mak­ing in the fields of dis­abil­ity, gen­der, and eth­nic­ity.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Mar­tin Bühler, Sophia Cramer, An­drea Glauser, 2020): Global beobachten und ver­gle­ichen. Sozi­ol­o­gis­che Analy­sen zur Welt­ge­sellschaft, Cam­pus.
• (with Mar­ion Müller, 2018): "Mak­ing up peo­ple" glob­ally. Die In­sti­tu­tion­al­isierung glob­aler Per­so­n­enkat­e­gorien am Beispiel In­di­gener Völker und Men­schen mit Be­hin­derun­gen, in: Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie, 47:5, 306-​331.
• (2017): Die Ein­heit der Vielfalt. Zur In­sti­tu­tion­al­isierung der glob­alen Kat­e­gorie "in­di­gene Völker", Cam­pus.

is a post­doc­toral re­searcher at the work­ing group of Alexan­dra Kaasch (Ger­man and transna­tional so­cial pol­icy). His work is lo­cated at the in­ter­sec­tion of so­cial pol­icy, In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions and po­lit­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy. He is par­tic­u­larly in­ter­ested in the role of in­ter­na­tional or­gan­i­sa­tions in (global) so­cial pol­icy, so­cial pol­icy in the Global South, and the role of knowl­edge and ideas in policy-​making. Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions at­tend to the in­flu­ence of quan­tifi­ca­tion and fu­ture vi­sions in global pol­i­tics. His re­search has been pub­lished in Pol­icy & So­ci­ety, Global So­ci­ety, His­tor­i­cal So­cial Re­search, the In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of So­cial Wel­fare, and in edited vol­umes on knowl­edge and ex­per­tise in (global) pol­i­tics.

is Pro­fes­sor of Com­par­a­tive Pol­i­tics and Pub­lic Pol­icy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Cur­rently, she is a PI in the project ‘Cli­mate, In­equal­ity, and De­mo­c­ra­tic Ac­tion: The Force of Po­lit­i­cal Emo­tions’ (CIDAPE; Hori­zon Eu­rope). Re­search in­ter­ests in­clude the­o­ries of the pol­icy process, pol­icy nar­ra­tives, com­par­a­tive so­cial pol­icy and so­cial rights, as well as the evidence-​and-policy re­la­tion­ship.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Do­brotić, I., 2023): ‘Sorry, we’re closed.’ A Fuzzy-​set Ideal Type Analy­sis of Pan­demic Childcare-​policy Re­sponses in 28 Eu­ro­pean Coun­tries. Eu­ro­pean Jour­nal of Pol­i­tics and Gen­der, 6 (2): 258-​94.
• (with Do­brotić, I. and Koslowski, A., 2022): Re­search Hand­book on Leave Pol­icy: Par­ent­ing and So­cial In­equal­i­ties in a Global Per­spec­tive, Ed­ward Elgar.
• (with Pat­tyn, V., 2022): How are ev­i­dence and pol­icy con­cep­tu­alised, and how do they con­nect? A qual­i­ta­tive sys­tem­atic re­view of pub­lic pol­icy lit­er­a­ture. Ev­i­dence & Pol­icy, 18(3): 563-​82.
• (with Kuhlmann, J., 2021): Nar­ra­tive Plots for Reg­u­la­tory, Dis­trib­u­tive, and Re­dis­trib­u­tive Poli­cies. Eu­ro­pean Pol­icy Analy­sis, 7(S2): 276-​302.
• (edited with Kuhlmann, J. & K. Schu­bert, 2020). Rout­ledge Hand­book of Eu­ro­pean Wel­fare Sys­tems, Rout­ledge.

His re­search brings to­gether per­spec­tives from so­ci­ol­ogy and po­lit­i­cal sci­ence in the field of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions. For a long time he has been in­ter­ested in the­o­ries and meth­ods in peace and con­flict stud­ies. Cur­rently, he is work­ing on con­flicts be­tween global, na­tional and local or­ders in world so­ci­ety. In par­tic­u­lar he is study­ing the role of dis­courses and prac­tices of se­cu­rity in in­ter­na­tion­al­ized state­build­ing. Fur­ther­more he is in­ter­ested in post­colo­nial and post­war po­lit­i­cal con­flicts, in the role of vic­tims in tran­si­tional jus­tice as well as in sex­ual and re­pro­duc­tive rights as a global field of con­flict. Method­olog­i­cally, he is using the­ory dri­ven and com­par­a­tive re­search de­signs with an em­pha­sis on Cen­tral and South­east Asia (Cam­bo­dia and Timor Leste). Cur­rent re­search projects also re­fer­ring to cases like Cameroon, Papua New Guinea, Kenya and Ethiopia.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Zim­mer, K., 2019): The Lo­cal­iza­tion of Sex­ual Rights in Ukraine, in: Radzhana Buyantueva & Maryna Shevtsova (Eds.): LBTQ+ Ac­tivism in Cen­tralk and East­ern Eu­rope, Cham: Pal­grave, 153-​184.
• (2019): Se­cu­rity Prac­tices and the Pro­duc­tion of Center-​Periphery-Figurations in State­build­ing, in: Al­ter­na­tives, on­line first: https://doi.org/10.1177/0304375418821479
• (with Dis­tler, W. & Ket­zm­er­ick, M., 2018): Se­cu­ri­ti­sa­tion and Dese­cu­ri­ti­sa­tion of Vi­o­lence in Trustee­ship State­build­ing, in: Civil Wars, on­line first: https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2018.1525675
• (2018): The Mil­i­ta­riza­tion of Se­cu­rity. A Sys­tems The­ory Per­spec­tive, in: Crit­i­cal Mil­i­tary Stud­ies, on­line first: DOI:10.1080/23337486.2018.1505383

is so­ci­ol­o­gist and lawyer. Since 1999, he has been hold­ing a chair in so­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His in­ter­ests are so­ci­ol­ogy of law, the­ory of reg­u­la­tion, so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, and qual­i­ta­tive meth­ods. He was a mem­ber of the Ger­man Ethics Coun­cil (ap­pointed by the Fed­eral Par­lia­ment and Gov­ern­ment) from 2008 until 2012. Since 2010, he has been act­ing as deputy di­rec­tor of the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS, funded by the Ger­man »Ex­cel­lence Ini­tia­tive«). From 2008 until 2012, he was ex­ec­u­tive ed­i­tor of the Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie. Since 2000, he has been work­ing as one of the ed­i­tors of Zeitschrift für Rechtssozi­olo­gie – The Ger­man Jour­nal of Law and So­ci­ety.

is a re­searcher at the Re­search Train­ing Group 'World Pol­i­tics' at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His doc­toral project in 2017-​2020 ex­plores net­works re­lated to pre­ven­tion agenda of the UN Human Rights Coun­cil. Along­side with diplo­mas from the Col­lege of Eu­rope in Bruges and Saint Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity, Ana­toly re­ceived pro­fes­sional diplo­matic train­ing at MGIMO-​University. As a for­mer spe­cial­ist at the Cen­tre for Ex­per­tise, Cen­tre for So­ci­o­log­i­cal and In­ter­net Re­search in Saint Pe­ters­burg, he ap­plies so­cial net­work analy­sis to in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions. Ana­toly pub­li­ca­tions cover the­matic areas re­lated to human rights, in­ter­na­tional courts and tri­bunals, EU ex­ter­nal ac­tion at in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions, in­ter­re­la­tion be­tween se­cu­rity, human rights and de­vel­op­ment pil­lars of the United Na­tions.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2019): Co­her­ence of Eu­ro­pean Union Ac­tions at the UN Human Rights Coun­cil and the Coun­cil of Eu­rope. MGIMO Re­view of In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions (3): 159-​175. DOI: 10.24833/2071-​8160-2019-3-66-159-175
• (2019): The Po­ten­tial of the Union State of Rus­sia and Be­larus in the UN Sys­tem. Con­tem­po­rary Eu­rope (1): 138-​147. DOI: 10.15211/soveurope12019138147
• (2019): Im­ple­men­ta­tion of the Treaty of the Union State and Mul­ti­po­lar World Order. In: Dostanko, E., Bai­chorau, A., Kiz­ima, S. (Eds.): Greater Eura­sia: Chal­lenges and Op­por­tu­ni­ties. Minsk: Be­laru­sian State Uni­ver­sity: 11-17.
• (with Kuteynikov, A., 2018): Mi­grant's Rights At A Sys­tem Of The Eu­ro­pean Con­ven­tion On Human Rights. Eu­ro­pean Pro­ceed­ings of So­cial and Be­hav­ioural Sci­ences (38): 89-96. DOI: 10.15405/epsbs.2018.04.11
• (2018): Pre­ven­tion of Ex­trem­ism in Mul­ti­po­lar World and Role of Union State. So­cial Sci­ences and Na­tional Se­cu­rity (4): 61-64.
• (2018): Union State at the UN Sys­tem. From Human Rights to Human Dig­nity. In: Sy­turin, V. (Ed.) Awardees of the Re­search Con­test among Young Ex­perts of Union State of Be­larus and Rus­sia. Moscow: GAUGN-​Press: 62-81.

is a doc­toral re­searcher in so­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. From 2010 till 2013 he was a mem­ber of the Grad­u­ate School “World So­ci­ety – Mak­ing and Rep­re­sent­ing the Global”. His main re­search con­cerns Global So­cial Pol­icy and wel­fare state de­vel­op­ment in East­ern Eu­rope. In his PhD the­sis he fo­cuses on East Eu­ro­pean non-​EU mem­bers and goes into the ques­tion, whether Rus­sia, Ukraine and Be­larus are vari­a­tions of the Eu­ro­pean wel­fare state model. In ad­di­tion he is in­ter­ested in cul­tural his­tory of foot­ball. Mar­tin Brand holds a diploma in po­lit­i­cal sci­ence from Free Uni­ver­sity Berlin.

is a Re­search As­so­ciate in the DFG-​funded project "World­views of Ice: Con­struc­tions of the Arc­tic at the Sci­ence/Pol­i­tics In­ter­face". His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions and se­cu­rity, sci­ence co­op­er­a­tion, and geopol­i­tics in the Arc­tic. In his dis­ser­ta­tion project, he fo­cuses on the de­vel­op­ment of fund­ing pri­or­i­ties in Arc­tic sci­ence and the con­sul­ta­tion processes be­tween sci­ence and pol­i­tics. Mikko holds a Mas­ter of Arts in So­cial Sci­ence (Baltic Sea Re­gion Stud­ies) from the Uni­ver­sity of Tartu and a Bach­e­lor’s de­gree in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence from the Friedrich-​Schiller-University of Jena.

Lothar Brock is se­nior pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at Goethe Uni­ver­sity Frank­furt and guest re­searcher at the Peace Re­search In­sti­tute Frank­furt. To­gether with Math­ias Al­bert and Klaus-​Dieter Wolf he was a co-​founder of the World So­ci­ety Re­search Group in Frank­furt and Darm­stadt. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude the con­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of in­ter­na­tional law, just peace, and the in­ter­na­tional pro­tec­tion of ‘civil­ians’ against mass atroc­i­ties in intra-​state con­flict.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Simon, Hen­drik (Eds.)): The Jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of War and In­ter­na­tional Order. Past and Present, Ox­ford: Ox­ford Uni­ver­sity Press i.E.
• (with Jäger, Sarah (Eds.), 2020): Frieden durch Recht – An­fra­gen an das lib­erale Mod­ell, Wies­baden: Springer VS. https://Doi.org/10.1007/978-​3-658-28747-4
• (2019): Be­tween Sov­er­eign Judge­ment and the In­ter­na­tional Rule of Law. The Pro­tec­tion of Peo­ple from Mass Atroc­i­ties, in: Math­ias Al­bert/An­thony Lang Jr., (Eds.), The Pol­i­tics of In­ter­na­tional Po­lit­i­cal The­ory: Re­flec­tions on the Works of Chris Brown, Hound­mills: Pal­grave, 87-​116. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-​3-319-93278-1
• (2018): Die Ord­nung der Welt­ge­sellschaft. Zwis­chen Staa­te­na­n­ar­chie und Welt­staatlichkeit, in: Al­bert, Math­ias/Deit­el­hoff, Nicole/Hell­mann, Gun­ther (Eds.): Ord­nung und Regieren in der Welt­ge­sellschaft. Wies­baden: Springer VS, 23-56.
• (with Simon, Hen­drik, 2018): Die Selb­st­be­haup­tung und Selb­st­gefährdung des Friedens als Herrschaft des Rechts. Eine end­lose Karus­sell­fahrt?, in: Poli­tis­che Viertel­jahress­chrift,  59:2, S. 269–291, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-​018-0066-z

is an so­ci­ol­o­gist who works at the in­ter­sec­tions of global and transna­tional stud­ies, cul­tural so­ci­ol­ogy, and the­ory. She also has in­ter­ests in comparative-​historical so­ci­ol­ogy, the so­ci­ol­ogy of mar­kets, and the so­ci­ol­ogy of in­tel­lec­tu­als/knowl­edge. Hold­ing four grad­u­ate de­grees (three mas­ter’s de­grees and a Ph.D. in so­ci­ol­ogy from Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­sity), Buch­holz cur­rently is an As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor at North­west­ern Uni­ver­sity’s School of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and So­ci­ol­ogy De­part­ment, a fac­ulty fel­low at the Crit­i­cal Re­al­ism Net­work Yale Uni­ver­sity, and an ed­i­to­r­ial board mem­ber of So­ci­o­log­i­cal The­ory. Prior to that, she was a Ju­nior Fel­low at the Har­vard So­ci­ety of Fel­lows, the first woman elected from her dis­ci­pline.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2022). The Global Rules of Art. The Emer­gence and Di­vi­sions of a Cul­tural World Econ­omy. Prince­ton: Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Press.
• (2019). Real Type For­ma­tion in Global Com­par­a­tive Work. Per­spec­tives 41, no. 1 (Spring/Sum­mer): 14–18.
• (2018). Re­think­ing the Center-​Periphery Model: Di­men­sions and Tem­po­ral­i­ties of Macro-​Structure in a Global Cul­tural Field. Po­et­ics: Jour­nal of Em­pir­i­cal Re­search on Cul­ture, the Media, and the Arts 71 (De­cem­ber): 18–32.
• (2016). What is a Global Field? The­o­riz­ing Fields be­yond the Nation-​State, The So­ci­o­log­i­cal Re­view 64 (2): 31–60. https://doi.org/10.1111/2059-​7932.12001

is Se­nior Re­search Fel­low and Lec­turer in In­ter­na­tional Pol­i­tics and Con­flict Stud­ies at the In­sti­tute of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, Bun­deswehr Uni­ver­sity Mu­nich, Ger­many. He is a mem­ber of the Arab Ger­man Young Acad­emy of Sci­ences and Hu­man­i­ties at the Berlin-​Brandenburg Acad­emy of Sci­ence (BBAW). He is also co-​director of the Israeli-​European Pol­icy Net­work. In May 2016 Jan Busse ob­tained his PhD de­gree (with high­est dis­tinc­tion, summa cum laude) at the Fac­ulty of So­cial Sci­ences and Pub­lic Af­fairs of the Bun­deswehr Uni­ver­sity Mu­nich. He re­ceived a mas­ter's de­gree in Global Pol­i­tics from the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence (LSE) and his bach­e­lor's de­gree in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence from the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld. From 2010 until 2014, Jan Busse worked at the Mid­dle East and Africa Di­vi­sion of the Ger­man In­sti­tute for In­ter­na­tional and Se­cu­rity Af­fairs (Stiftung Wis­senschaft und Poli­tik) in Berlin. In 2009 he was a trainee in the cab­i­net of the pres­i­dent of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion José Manuel Bar­roso in Brus­sels work­ing on EU for­eign pol­icy. His re­search fo­cuses on global his­tor­i­cal so­ci­olo­gies of po­lit­i­cal order, the Israeli-​Arab con­flict, po­lit­i­cal dy­nam­ics in the Mid­dle East and North Africa, and EU-​Mediterranean Re­la­tions. He has pub­lished in peer-​reviewed jour­nals such as In­ter­na­tional Po­lit­i­cal So­ci­ol­ogy and Mid­dle East Cri­tique, and Global Af­fairs.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2021): The Glob­al­ity of Gov­ern­men­tal­ity: Gov­ern­ing an En­tan­gled World (The New In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions Se­ries). Lon­don: Rout­ledge (in press).
• (2021): The His­tor­i­cal and So­cial Em­bed­ded­ness of the Post-​Ottoman Space in World So­ci­ety, in: Paul Kohlen­berg / Na­dine Gode­hardt (ed.), The Mul­ti­di­men­sion­al­ity of Re­gions in World Pol­i­tics. Lon­don: Rout­ledge, 75-93.
• (2020) [2018]: De­con­struct­ing the Dy­nam­ics of World-​Societal Order: The Power of Gov­ern­men­tal­ity in Pales­tine. (The New In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions Se­ries). Lon­don: Rout­ledge (Paperback-​Edition).

so­ci­ol­o­gist, is a re­search as­sis­tant at the Uni­ver­sity of Hildesheim and a PhD can­di­date at the Uni­ver­sity of Giessen. His re­search fo­cuses on lit­i­ga­tion prac­tices, legal trans­for­ma­tions and con­flicts of so­cial in­equal­ity. He works on so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­o­ries of law and legal mo­bi­liza­tion with an in­ter­na­tional com­par­a­tive focus on ed­u­ca­tion and en­vi­ron­men­tal lit­i­ga­tion in Latin Amer­ica.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• with Car­los Andrés García Car­va­jal and Juli­ette Var­gas Tru­jillo (2021). Wo kein Kläger (-​kollektiv), da kein Richter? Abkürzun­gen und Umwege kollek­tiver Rechtsmo­bil­isierun­gen in der kolumbian­is­chen Amazonas-​und Atra­tore­gion. Zeitschrift für Kultur-​und Kollek­tivwis­senschaft, 7(1): 83-​116.
• (2021): Conocimien­tos, prácti­cas y rep­re­senta­ciones in­sti­tu­cionales: La caja negra de la jus­ti­cia penal para ado­les­centes colom­bianos:(Knowl­edge, prac­tices and in­sti­tu­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tions: The black box of the ju­ve­nile jus­tice in Colom­bia). Oñati Socio-​Legal Se­ries, 11(3): 907-​929.

Ben­jamin Davy was pro­fes­sor of land pol­icy, land man­age­ment, and mu­nic­i­pal geoin­for­ma­tion at the School of Spa­tial Plan­ning, TU Dort­mund uni­ver­sity (1997-​2019). From 2010 through 2016, he was Vice Pres­i­dent and Pres­i­dent of the In­ter­na­tional Aca­d­e­mic As­so­ci­a­tion on Plan­ning, Law, and Prop­erty Rights (PLPR). From 2017 through 2021, he was Vice Pres­i­dent and Pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Eu­ro­pean Schools of Plan­ning (AESOP). Cur­rently, Ben Davy is Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Jo­han­nes­burg School of Law (South Africa). He is Essay Ed­i­tor of »Plan­ning The­ory« (since 2011) and mem­ber of the ed­i­to­r­ial boards of »Plan­ning The­ory & Prac­tice« (since 2007) and »Jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Plan­ning As­so­ci­a­tion« (since 2015). His cur­rent re­search deals with so­cial dis­tanc­ing and the COVID-​19 cri­sis, human dig­nity, and the Fourth In­dus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2020): »De­hu­man­ized hous­ing« and the ide­ol­ogy of prop­erty as a so­cial func­tion. Plan­ning The­ory 19 (1), 38-58.
• (2019): Evil in­sur­gency. Plan­ning The­ory and Prac­tice 20 (2), 290-​297.
• (2018): Thoughts on in­ter­na­tion­al­ism and plan­ning. Town Plan­ning Re­view 89 (4), 323-​329.
• (co-​edit with Sony Pel­lis­sery and Har­vey M. Ja­cobs, 2017): Land poli­cies in India. Pro­mises, prac­tices and chal­lenges, Springer Na­ture.

Ul­rike Davy is pro­fes­sor for con­sti­tu­tional and ad­min­is­tra­tive law, Ger­man and in­ter­na­tional so­cial law, and com­par­a­tive law at the Fac­ulty of Law of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Ad­di­tion­ally, she is Prin­ci­pal In­ves­ti­ga­tor under the DFG-​funded Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­ter 1288 Prac­tices of Com­par­ing, Prin­ci­pal In­ves­ti­ga­tor under the DFG-​funded Re­search Train­ing Group World Pol­i­tics, and mem­ber of the Uni­ver­sity Coun­cil of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search con­cen­trates on mi­gra­tion and refugee law, his­tory and the­ory of the wel­fare state, Eu­ro­pean and global so­cial pol­icy, and uni­ver­sal human rights law, in par­tic­u­lar, so­cial rights and the right to equal­ity.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2020): Sozialpoli­tik der Union, in: Matthias Niedo­bitek (Hg.), Eu­ro­parecht. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1447-​1568.
• (2019): Refugee Cri­sis in Ger­many and the Right to a Sub­sis­tence Min­i­mum: Dif­fer­ences That Ought Not Be, Geor­gia Jour­nal of In­ter­na­tional and Com­par­a­tive Law, Vol. 47, 2, 367-​450.
• (2019): Wenn Gle­ich­heit in Gefahr ist. Staatliche Schutzpflichten und Schutzbedürftigkeit am Beispiel des Min­der­heit­en­schutzes und des Schutzes vor ras­sis­cher Diskri­m­inierung, ZÖR 74, 4: 773-​844.

• (with Leese, Matthias, 2021): Crim­i­nal Fu­tures: Pre­dic­tive Polic­ing and Every­day Po­lice Work. Lon­don: Rout­ledge.
• (with Heimstädt, Max­i­m­il­ian and Elena Es­pos­ito, 2020): A Pan­demic of Pre­dic­tion: On the Cir­cu­la­tion of Con­ta­gion Mod­els be­tween Pub­lic Health and Pub­lic Safety. In: So­ci­o­log­ica – In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal for So­ci­o­log­i­cal De­bate 14 (3): Art. #11470, 1-24.
• (with Kras­mann, Su­sanne, 2020): Pre­dic­tive Polic­ing: not yet, but soon pre­emp­tive? In: Polic­ing and So­ci­ety 30 (8): 905-​919.

is a doc­toral re­searcher in so­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) and a re­search as­so­ciate of the project „The dis­cur­sive con­struc­tion of con­flict and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tional decision-​making processes be­tween nor­ma­tive frame­works of peace­build­ing and se­cu­ri­ti­za­tion - the case of the UN As­sis­tance Mis­sion for Iraq (UNAMI)", funded by the Ger­man Foun­da­tion for Peace Re­search. Her re­search presently fo­cuses on the so­ci­ol­ogy of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions, in­ter­na­tional or­gan­i­sa­tions, crit­i­cal se­cu­rity stud­ies, knowl­edge so­ci­ol­ogy and dis­course the­ory.

Cur­rent projects in­clude re­search on knowl­edge and dis­cur­sive frames of the UN As­sis­tance Mis­sion for Iraq (UNAMI) (PhD project), an ar­ti­cle on UN in­ter­ven­tions from a world so­ci­ety per­spec­tive (forth­com­ing in 2014, co-​authored with Mitja Sienknecth and Math­ias Al­bert) as well as re­search and eval­u­a­tion work on UN SC Res­o­lu­tions 1325 and 1820, women's par­tic­i­pa­tion and the pre­ven­tion of vi­o­lence against women. A so­ci­ol­o­gist by train­ing, Ker­stin has worked as a con­flict pre­ven­tion and re­cov­ery prac­ti­tioner with the UN's De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme from 2003 to 2009 (Switzer­land, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, South-​East Eu­rope & CIS).

is pro­fes­sor of mod­ern his­tory, vice-​speaker of the BMBF-​project „En­tan­gled Amer­i­cas“, and mem­ber of the steer­ing com­mit­tee of the co­op­er­a­tion group „com­mu­ni­ca­tion of com­par­isons“ at the Cen­ter for In­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary Re­search (ZiF). Since 2010 she has been dean/vice dean of the fac­ulty of his­tory, phi­los­o­phy, and the­ol­ogy. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude the his­tory of global en­tan­gle­ments, global mi­cro­his­tory and lo­cal­ity stud­ies, gen­der his­tory, com­par­a­tive his­tory of his­to­ri­og­ra­phy, and the com­mu­ni­ca­tion of com­par­isons in his­tory.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• Glob­ale Machtverhält­nisse, lokale Ver­flech­tun­gen: Die Berliner Kon­gokon­ferenz, Solin­gen und das Hin­ter­land des kolo­nialen Waf­fen­han­dels, in: Christof De­jung, Mar­tin Leng­wiler (Hg.), Ränder der Mod­erne, Köln, Weimar, Wien 2014.
• The Ver­tigo of His­tor­i­cal Analy­ses in a Glob­al­iz­ing World. Read­ing Joan Scott, in: His­tory and The­ory 53 (May 2014), S. 235-​244.
• Lokalität und die Di­men­sio­nen des Glob­alen. Eine Frage der Re­la­tio­nen, in: His­torische An­thro­polo­gie, 21.Jg. 2013/1, S. 4-25.
• Global-​ und Geschlechtergeschichte. Eine Beziehung mit großer Zukunft, in: L'Homme. Zeitschrift für fem­i­nis­tis­che Geschichtswis­senschaft, 23. Jg. Heft 2, 2012, S. 87-​100.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS). Her dis­ser­ta­tion ex­plores the de­vel­op­ment of long-​term care poli­cies in Turkey in a com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive. Since 2017 she has been work­ing in the re­search project "How ´so­cial´ is Turkey? Turkey´s so­cial se­cu­rity sys­tem in a Eu­ro­pean con­text" as a re­search as­sis­tant at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Er­do­gan re­ceived her B.A in So­ci­ol­ogy from Koc Uni­ver­sity, Is­tan­bul and her M.A. in So­ci­ol­ogy from Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity.

Re­cent co-​authored pub­li­ca­tions:

• Öktem, K. and Er­do­gan, C. (2019), "Be­tween wel­fare state and (state-​organised) char­ity", In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of So­ci­ol­ogy and So­cial Pol­icy, Vol. ahead-​of-print No. ahead-​of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-​11-2018-0217

emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor of De­vel­op­ment Plan­ning and for­mer Dean of the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld is one of the found­ing di­rec­tors of the In­sti­tute for the Study of World So­ci­ety. He is now Se­nior Fel­low, Cen­ter for De­vel­op­ment Re­search (ZEF), Uni­ver­sity of Bonn and Em­i­nent Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor, In­sti­tute of Asian Stud­ies, Uni­ver­siti Brunei Darus­salam. After fin­ish­ing his post­grad­u­ate ed­u­ca­tion in so­ci­ol­ogy, eco­nom­ics and ge­og­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­sity of Freiburg, Ger­many, he taught so­ci­ol­ogy at the Mannheim School of Eco­nom­ics, Monash Uni­ver­sity, at Yale Uni­ver­sity, where he was also Di­rec­tor of Grad­u­ate South­east Asia Stud­ies, Uni­ver­sity of Sin­ga­pore (Head of Dept.) be­fore join­ing Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity as the Chair­man of the So­ci­ol­ogy of De­vel­op­ment Re­search Cen­tre. He also served as Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor at the Sin­ga­pore Man­age­ment Uni­ver­sity, Uni­ver­siti Sains Malaysia, Uni­ver­siti Ke­bangsaan Malaysia, Uni­ver­si­tas Gajah Mada, the EHESS (Paris), Trin­ity Col­lege (Ox­ford), the Uni­ver­sity of Hawaii, and as Dis­tin­guished Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor at the Na­tional Uni­ver­sity of Sin­ga­pore. His cur­rent re­search is con­cerned with the gov­er­nance of global mar­itime space, the South China Sea and knowl­edge gov­er­nance.

(PhD, New School for So­cial Re­search) is Pro­fes­sor of Transna­tional, Mi­gra­tion and De­vel­op­ment So­ci­ol­ogy in the De­part­ment of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He also di­rects the Cen­ter on Mi­gra­tion, Cit­i­zen­ship and De­vel­op­ment (COM­CAD). Pro­fes­sor Faist has con­tributed to on­go­ing de­bates about transna­tion­al­ity, cit­i­zen­ship, and so­cial pol­icy in Eu­rope and be­yond. He has au­thored and co-​authored nu­mer­ous books in­clud­ing "The Transna­tion­al­ized So­cial Ques­tion: Mi­gra­tion and the Pol­i­tics of So­cial In­equal­i­ties in the Twenty-​First Cen­tury" (2019), "Dis­en­tan­gling Mi­gra­tion and Cli­mate Change" (2016), "Transna­tional Mi­gra­tion" (2013), as well as "Cit­i­zen­ship: Dis­course, The­ory and Transna­tional Prospects" (2007) and "Dual Cit­i­zen­ship in Eu­rope" (2007).

(Dr. phil.) was a re­search as­so­ciate at the Re­search Group ‘Transna­tion­al­iza­tion, De­vel­op­ment and Mi­gra­tion', Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. She was a mem­ber and co­or­di­na­tor of the C1 project within the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 882. Her projects dealed with so­cial in­equal­i­ties in transna­tional per­spec­tive, global mo­bil­ity, so­ci­ol­ogy of cit­i­zen­ship and the trans­for­ma­tions of lo­cal­ity. Pub­li­ca­tions in­clude "Transna­tional Mi­gra­tion" (Polity Press, 2013, co-​author) and "Mi­grants and Cities" (Ash­gate, 2012).

is Pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal The­ory and His­tory of Po­lit­i­cal Thought. His main re­search fields are: Phi­los­o­phy and The­ory of Moder­nity, Phi­los­o­phy and The­ory of So­cial Sci­ences, The­o­ries of the Po­lit­i­cal, De­mo­c­ra­tic The­ory, Con­tem­po­rary French Phi­los­o­phy and So­cial The­ory, and Post-​Marxist Crit­i­cal So­cial The­ory. Among his most re­cently pub­lished books are: "Radikale Demokrati­ethe­o­rien zur Einführung" (2020), "Radikale Demokrati­ethe­o­rie. Ein Hand­buch" (2019, co-​editor with D. Comtesse, F. Mar­tin­sen, and M. Non­hoff), "Pierre Rosan­val­lon's Po­lit­i­cal Thought" (co-​editor with F. Mar­tin­sen, S. Sawyer, and D. Schulz).

is a post­doc­toral re­searcher at the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre "From Het­ero­gene­ity to In­equal­ity" (SFB 882) in the project "Con­cep­tions of Global In­equal­ity in World So­ci­ety". Her main re­search in­ter­ests are in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions the­ory, in­ter­na­tional or­gan­i­sa­tions and dis­course the­ory. Cur­rent re­search projects deal with the se­man­tics of global in­equal­ity (post­doc project), in­equal­ity as and in­ter­na­tional or­gan­i­sa­tions and the myth of global civil so­ci­ety par­tic­i­pa­tion.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) and a mem­ber of the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics". After his stud­ies in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions (Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence) he has worked as a lec­turer (sem­i­nars) at the Uni­ver­sity of Am­s­ter­dam and Lei­den Uni­ver­sity. His PhD project fo­cuses on the chang­ing human se­cu­rity norm en­tre­pre­neur­ship strate­gies of West­ern small states and mid­dle pow­ers at the United Na­tions. Among his gen­eral re­search in­ter­ests are con­struc­tivism, in­ter­na­tional norms, human se­cu­rity norms, small state and mid­dle power for­eign pol­icy, and ques­tions re­gard­ing the re­order­ing of the cur­rent world order.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Re­search Train­ing Group “Cross-​border Labour Mar­kets” at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. She holds a Mas­ter’s De­gree in So­ci­ol­ogy from the same uni­ver­sity and a Bach­e­lor’s De­gree in So­cial Sci­ences granted by the Uni­ver­si­dade Fed­eral de Juiz de Fora, in Brazil. She is mainly in­ter­ested in mi­gra­tion stud­ies, de­colo­nial stud­ies, transna­tion­al­i­sa­tion and fem­i­nist the­o­ries.

Dur­ing her bach­e­lor's de­gree, Mar­i­ana was a re­search as­sis­tant on the project "Stud­ies of the ju­di­cial­i­sa­tion of gender-​based vi­o­lence and the dis­sem­i­na­tion of al­ter­na­tive prac­tices from a com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive be­tween Brazil and Ar­gentina", which fo­cused on elu­ci­dat­ing the in­sti­tu­tional processes of pros­e­cut­ing cases of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

In her PhD project, she is con­duct­ing a socio-​anthropological analy­sis of Au Pair pro­grammes in Ger­many, aim­ing to un­der­stand the com­plex­i­ties in­her­ent in these ex­change pro­grammes that in­volve child­care and do­mes­tic labour.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• Gomes, M. (2023). Assédio sex­ual no meio uni­ver­sitário: for­mas de re­sistência e mo­bi­lização. Áske­sis, 10(2), (pp. 150–172). https://doi.org/10.46269/10221.590 .
• BE­RALDO DE OLIVEIRA, M.; SILVA, A. L. H.; GOMES, M. (2021). A Casa da Mul­her e o fluxo da ju­di­cial­ização da violência de gênero em Juiz de Fora/MG. In: RI­FI­O­TIS, T. (org.), CAR­DOZO, F. (org.). Ju­di­cial­ização da violência de gênero em de­bate: Per­spec­ti­vas etnográficas (pp. 21-52). Brasília: ABA Pub­licações.

stud­ied French Cul­tural Stud­ies and In­ter­cul­tural Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, Eco­nom­ics, Sus­tain­abil­ity Stud­ies, and In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions with the focus on Global Po­lit­i­cal Econ­omy at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Saarbrücken, Trier, Dres­den and Bor­deaux. She is cur­rently a re­search as­so­ciate in the SFB 1288 "Prac­tices of com­par­ing" and a doc­toral re­searcher at Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. In her PhD project, she analy­ses the link be­tween the in­ter­na­tional eco­nomic order and the se­cu­rity sys­tem through power com­par­i­son. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude glob­al­iza­tion, power analy­sis as well as global po­lit­i­cal econ­omy.

is pro­fes­sor for Pub­lic Law, Po­lit­i­cal The­ory and Con­sti­tu­tional His­tory at the Fac­ulty of Laws at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He is a mem­ber of the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 882 “From Het­ero­geneities to In­equal­i­ties” and was am mem­ber of the for­mer Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­ter 584 "The Po­lit­i­cal as a space of com­mu­ni­ca­tion in His­tory". His spe­cial fields of in­ter­ests are mod­ern Con­sti­tu­tional His­tory of the 20th Cen­tury, Human Rights Re­search, Se­cu­rity and Safety and its legal pro­tec­tion as well as the laws of In­te­gra­tion (of for­eign­ers) in Ger­man and the EU.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His dis­ser­ta­tion project fo­cuses on old age pro­tec­tion, re­tire­ment and pen­sion poli­cies in Iran. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­cial pol­icy, the his­tory of work and work­ers, wel­fare, in­equal­ity and in­for­mal­ity. He has re­cently pub­lished a book "Piri" (2019) an ethno­graphic study of older peo­ple in Tehran (in Per­sian). In 2016 he also pub­lished an ar­ti­cle "Gen­der in a Justice-​Centered So­ci­ety: A Re­view of Abu-​Hamid Ghazel's Eth­i­cal Views" (in Per­sian).

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search project fo­cuses on the global rise, trans­for­ma­tion, and con­sol­i­da­tion of con­cep­tions of in­for­mal em­pire in the course of the 20th cen­tury. It in­ves­ti­gates how in­for­mal em­pire has been se­man­ti­cally con­structed and de­scribed as an il­le­git­i­mate al­though very com­mon struc­tural fea­ture of world pol­i­tics. Simon Hecke stud­ied so­ci­ol­ogy and his­tory at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Biele­feld and War­wick. Be­fore join­ing the Re­search Train­ing Group, he worked as a re­search as­so­ciate at the Forum In­ter­na­tionale Wis­senschaft in Bonn and the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy, so­ci­ol­ogy of em­pires as well as glob­al­iza­tion and world so­ci­ety stud­ies.

is Se­nior­pro­fes­sor at the Goethe Uni­ver­sity Frank­furt/Main. From 2002 to 2019 he was Pro­fes­sor for Eco­nomic So­ci­ol­ogy and So­cial Sci­ence Ed­u­ca­tion at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search con­cen­trates on the the­ory of so­cial sci­ence ed­u­ca­tion, po­lit­i­cal par­tic­i­pa­tion and ed­u­ca­tion, eco­nom­ics of con­ven­tion, es­pe­cially con­ven­tion­al­ist ap­proaches to mar­ket the­ory and con­cepts of so­cial sci­ence ed­u­ca­tion.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2019): Wirtschaftssozi­olo­gie. Kon­stanz: UVK/UTB, 2. Aufl.
• (2019): The so­cial sci­ence prin­ci­ple in socio-​economic di­dac­tics. In: In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of Plu­ral­ism and Eco­nomic Ed­u­ca­tion 10 (4), 350-​368.
• (with An­drea Szukala and Claude Proeschel, 2019): Sit­u­a­tion ver­sus Kom­pa­ra­tion? Eine Skizze zur kon­ven­tio­nen­the­o­retis­chen Method­olo­gie am Beispiel Bürg­er­schafts­bil­dung in der Schule. In: Im­dorf, Chris­t­ian; Lee­mann, Reg­ula; Gonon, Philipp (eds.): Bil­dung und Kon­ven­tio­nen. Wies­baden, 281-​307.

is a post-​doc re­searcher at the Ham­burg In­sti­tut for So­cial Re­search (HIS) where he is a mem­ber of the Re­search Group Macro-​Violence. He is an or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­ol­o­gist by train­ing and fo­cuses mainly on sit­u­ated ac­tion. Cur­rently, he works on local tem­po­ral­i­ties of vi­o­lence and on how to ex­plain puz­zling so­cial facts from a proces­sual point of view. Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions are: The­o­riz­ing Vi­o­lence. Über die In­dexikalität von Gewalt und ihrer soziolo-​gischen Analyse (to­gether with Teresa Koloma Beck), Zeitschrift für The­o­retis­che Soziolo-​gie 8 (1), 2019; Gewalt erklären. Plädoyer für eine ent­deck­ende Prozess­sozi­olo­gie (to­gether with Wolf­gang Knöbl), Ham­burg: Ham­burger Edi­tion 2019; Die Schweigsamkeit der Gewalt (to­gether with Eddie Hart­mann), Wes­t­End. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozial­forschung 17 (1), 2020.

is Sci­en­tific Re­searcher at the In­sti­tute for So­cial Sci­ences/De­part­ment So­ci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Koblenz-​Landau (on Lan­dau Cam­pus). He is a mem­ber of the Grad­u­ate School of Hu­man­i­ties and So­cial Sci­ences of the Uni­ver­sity of Lucerne (GSL) in Switzer­land, and is writ­ing his hermeneutic-​sociological doc­toral the­sis on the vi­sual con­struc­tion of glob­al­ity. Fur­ther­more, he teaches as guest lec­turer at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Han­nover and Lucerne.

is Re­search As­so­ciate in the DFG-​funded project "World­views of Ice: Con­struc­tions of the Arc­tic at the Sci­ence/Pol­i­tics In­ter­face". She is in­ter­ested in sci­ence co­op­er­a­tion and geopol­i­tics in the Arc­tic, with a focus on crit­i­cal geopol­i­tics, sci­ence diplo­macy and so­ci­ol­ogy of sci­ence. In her cur­rent re­search, she in­ves­ti­gates the dif­fer­ent knowl­edge sys­tems, world­views and imag­i­nar­ies in Arc­tic sci­en­tific com­mu­ni­ties. Svenja holds a Mas­ter's de­gree in "Gov­ern­ing Sus­tain­abil­ity" from the Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ence in Bre­men and a Bach­e­lor's de­gree in So­cial Sci­ence from the Heinrich-​Heine-University Düssel­dorf.

is Pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He earned his Ph.D. from the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and has sub­se­quently worked at Ludwig-​Maximilians-University Mu­nich and the Uni­ver­sity of Lucerne. His cur­rent re­search in­ter­ests in­clude po­lit­i­cal and eco­nomic so­ci­ol­ogy, so­cial net­works and glob­al­iza­tion. Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions in these fields in­clude the book Mor­al­iz­ing the Cor­po­ra­tion (E. Elgar, 2010) and chap­ters in The Po­lit­i­cal Role of Cor­po­rate Cit­i­zens (ed. by K. S. Helges­son and U. Mörth, Pal­grave 2013), in Net­zw­erke in der funk­tional dif­feren­zierten Gesellschaft (ed. by M. Bommes and V. Tacke, VS 2011) and, with G. Mutz, in Glob­al­isierung Süd (ed. by A. Paul, A. Pelfini and B. Re­hbein, VS 2010). He is cur­rently prepar­ing the edited vol­ume From Glob­al­iza­tion to World So­ci­ety (co-ed. with F. Kast­ner and T. Wer­ron, Rout­ledge 2014), which fo­cuses on neo-​institutional and sys­tems ap­proaches to glob­al­iza­tion.

is a re­search as­so­ciate in a DFG-​funded project on the "So­cial Con­struc­tions of Cli­mate Fu­tures" and doc­toral stu­dent in the so­ci­ol­ogy of sci­ence sec­tion at the Uni­ver­sity of Ham­burg. He works on a his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy of the sci­en­tific dis­course on cli­mate and cli­mate fu­tures. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, so­ci­ol­ogy of time and world so­ci­ety the­ory.

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the Re­searcher Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics", Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her doc­toral project fo­cuses on the co­op­er­a­tion among inter-​ and non-​governmental or­ga­ni­za­tions in the sphere of early warn­ing and re­sponse to vi­o­lent con­flicts. Alina re­ceived her Spe­cial­ist de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions from the Kyrgyz-​Russian Slavic Uni­ver­sity in Bishkek, Kyr­gyzs­tan and her Mas­ter's de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Eco­nomic and Po­lit­i­cal Stud­ies from the Charles Uni­ver­sity in Prague, Czech Re­pub­lic. Apart from gain­ing work ex­pe­ri­ence at the sev­eral donor-​funded projects, Alina spent more than 5 years teach­ing at the Fac­ulty of In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions, Kyr­gyz Na­tional Uni­ver­sity. Her main re­search in­ter­ests in­clude in­ter­na­tional pol­i­tics and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions, con­flict pre­ven­tion, so­cial in­te­gra­tion, refugee and mi­gra­tion stud­ies.

Re­cent Pub­li­ca­tion:

• (2018). In­te­gra­tion pol­icy in the Eu­ro­pean Union: From Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism to­wards So­cial In­te­gra­tion of Mi­grants. Lessons for the CIS coun­tries. Post-​Soviet stud­ies, Moscow, vol. 1, no.6, pp. 556-​566 (in Russ­ian).

is (em.) Pro­fes­sor for Po­lit­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He works on risk is­sues, so­cial move­ments and sys­tems the­ory.

Re­cent Pub­li­ca­tion:

• "Pu­ri­tanis­cher Ter­ror", Soziale Sys­teme 2016 (bibl. 2018), 21(1): 42-78.

is Pro­fes­sor in Ger­man and Transna­tional So­cial Pol­icy at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy (Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity). Her re­search in­ter­ests are in the fields of com­par­a­tive and global so­cial and health pol­icy and gov­er­nance. She is lead ed­i­tor of the jour­nal "Global So­cial Pol­icy" (SAGE), and co-​editor of the in­ter­na­tional book se­ries "Re­search in Com­par­a­tive and Global So­cial Pol­icy" (Pol­icy Press). Among her pub­li­ca­tions are "The Ar­chi­tec­ture of Ar­gu­ments in Global So­cial Gov­er­nance" (2021), "Ac­tors and Agency in Global So­cial Gov­er­nance" (2015) and "Shap­ing Global Health Pol­icy"  (2015).

is Ju­nior Pro­fes­sor of Transna­tional His­tory of the Amer­i­cas and Ex­ec­u­tive Di­rec­tor of the Cen­ter for In­ter­Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search areas in­clude Latin Amer­i­can and Transna­tional His­tory, Inter-​American Stud­ies, Post­colo­nial Stud­ies, In­di­gene­ity and Iden­tity Pol­i­tics, So­cial Move­ments. He has done field and archival Work in Ecuador, Chile, Bo­livia, Mex­ico and the US. He has re­cently pub­lished "Poli­tis­che Räume jen­seits von Staat und Na­tion" (2012), "Sell­ing Eth­niC­ity: Urban Cul­tural Pol­i­tics in the Amer­i­cas" (2011), "Transna­tional Amer­i­cas. En­vi­sion­ing Inter.Amer­i­can Area Stud­ies in Glob­al­iza­tion Processes" (2013), and "En diálogo: Metodologías hor­i­zon­tales en cien­cias so­ciales y cul­tur­ales" (with Sarah Corona Berkin, 2012).

Fa­tima Kast­ner is pro­fes­sor for The­o­ries of Glob­al­iza­tion and Dig­i­tal Trans­for­ma­tion at the Acad­emy of Media Arts Cologne, Ger­many. Hav­ing stud­ied law, phi­los­o­phy, and so­cial sci­ences at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence (LSE) and the Collège In­ter­na­tional de Philoso­phie (CIPh) in Paris, she holds a Mas­ter and a Doc­toral de­gree from the Goethe-​University of Frank­furt/Main as well as a Ha­bil­i­ta­tion from Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Fa­tima Kast­ner re­ceived sev­eral prizes, re­search grants and schol­ar­ships from the Hes­s­ian Aca­d­e­mic Schol­ar­ship Foun­da­tion, the Ger­man Re­search Or­ga­ni­za­tion (DFG) and the Ger­man Fed­eral Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­search (BMBF). Quite re­cently she was awarded the Adam Pod­gorecki Prize by the Re­search Com­mit­tee on So­ci­ol­ogy of Law (RCSL) of the In­ter­na­tional So­ci­o­log­i­cal As­so­ci­a­tion (ISA) in the cat­e­gory “out­stand­ing achieve­ments in socio-​legal re­search”.

Her cur­rent re­search in­ter­ests in­clude The­o­ries of Glob­al­iza­tion, So­ci­ol­ogy of Law and Global Con­sti­tu­tion­al­ism, The­ory of World So­ci­ety and World Cul­ture, Tran­si­tional Jus­tice and Human Rights, Dig­i­tal So­ci­ety and Robot Law.

Her pub­li­ca­tions in­clude:

• Haben Ro­boter Rechte? Kon­struk­tio­nen von In­di­vid­u­alität und Per­son­alität in der dig­i­talen Gesellschaft. In: Eric Hilgen­dorf und Benno Zabel (Hrsg.), Die Idee sub­jek­tiver Rechte. Tübin­gen: Mohr Siebeck 2019 (in print).
• Acad­e­mia in Trans­for­ma­tion. Baden-​Baden: Nomos Ver­lag 2018 (con­jointly with Sarhan Dhouib, Flo­rian Kohstall and Car­ola Richter).
• Sozi­olo­gie der Men­schen­rechte: Zur Uni­ver­sal­isierung von Un­recht­ser­fahrun­gen in der Welt­ge­sellschaft. In: Öster­re­ichis­che Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie, Jg. 42, Heft 3. Wies­baden: Springer Ver­lag 2017, pp. 217-​236.
• Tran­si­tional Jus­tice in der Welt­ge­sellschaft. Ham­burg: Ham­burger Edi­tion 2015.
• From Glob­al­iza­tion to World So­ci­ety. Neo-​Institutional and Systems-​Theoretical Per­spec­tives. New York: Rout­ledge 2015 (con­jointly with Boris Holzer and To­bias Wer­ron).
• Niklas Luh­mann. Law as a So­cial Sys­tem. Ox­ford: Ox­ford Uni­ver­sity Press 2008 (con­jointly with Richard No­bles, David Schiff and Rosamund Ziegert).

is re­search as­so­ciate at the chair for Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies. Work­ing at the nexus of In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions (IR) and In­ter­na­tional Po­lit­i­cal The­ory (IPT), his cur­rent re­search is con­cerned with a discourse-​theoretical in­ves­ti­ga­tion of aca­d­e­mic dis­courses on the EU as a sub­ject in world pol­i­tics. His fur­ther in­ter­ests lie in se­cu­rity and iden­tity stud­ies, so­ci­ol­ogy of sci­ence, and con­spir­acy nar­ra­tives in times of epis­temic cri­sis.

is lec­turer at the De­part­ment of So­ci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Lucerne (Switzer­land). His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­ci­ol­ogy of or­ga­ni­za­tions; so­ci­ol­ogy of risk and reg­u­la­tion and so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory. Cur­rently he is work­ing on the De­mo­graphic Change as a chal­lenge for or­ga­ni­za­tions.

Mar­tin Koch is As­sis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions, in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions the­ory and world so­ci­ety stud­ies. He is cur­rently work­ing on the role of G20 in world pol­i­tics, on inter-​organizational re­la­tions and world order and on the IOM as a world or­ga­ni­za­tion. His re­cent pub­li­ca­tions are "In­ter­na­tionale Or­gan­i­sa­tio­nen in der Welt­ge­sellschaft" (2017) [In­ter­na­tional Or­ga­ni­za­tions in World So­ci­ety], "World Or­ga­ni­za­tions in Mi­gra­tion Pol­i­tics" (2018, with M. Geiger), and "Twitter-​Diplomacy" (2020, with J. Siri, F. Zim­mer­mann, M. Myatt, and T. Jaschkowitz).

is a (re­tired) ex­tra­or­di­nary pro­fes­sor (apl. Pro­fes­sor) for so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, his­tory of so­ci­ol­ogy and his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. For­merly, he has done re­search on the his­tory and method­ol­ogy of Ger­man his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy. Today he fo­cuses on the the­o­ret­i­cal prob­lem of how total wars (like World War I and II) de­ter­mine so­cial change in mod­ern so­ci­ety. Com­bin­ing so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory and his­tor­i­cal re­search, he aims at in­te­grat­ing total wars into a the­ory of mod­ern so­ci­ety which has up until now con­sid­ered mod­ern so­ci­ety as civil so­ci­ety.

is re­search as­so­ciate in the DFG re­search project “The Con­cept of Sov­er­eignty in the Transna­tional Con­stel­la­tion: A Re­con­fig­u­ra­tion of Po­lit­i­cal Nor­ma­tiv­ity“ at the De­part­ment of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at Uni­ver­sity of Trier. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude The­ory and His­tory of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions; Knowl­edge Prac­tice and Dis­course Analy­sis; as well as Global Gov­er­nance, Transna­tional Re­la­tions and the Trans­for­ma­tion of Sov­er­eign States’ Re­la­tions. Friederike Kuntz is cur­rently work­ing on her PhD the­sis in which she fo­cuses on the his­tor­i­cal emer­gence of knowl­edge about the in­ter­na­tional and its im­pli­ca­tion for the sov­er­eign states’ re­la­tion in historical-​comparative per­spec­tive.

is post­doc­toral re­search fel­low at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, Ger­many. He was JSPS Fel­low at the In­sti­tute of Global Stud­ies, Tokyo Uni­ver­sity of For­eign Stud­ies after re­ceiv­ing his Ph.D. in in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions from Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­sity of Welling­ton, New Zealand. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude labor pol­i­tics and so­cial move­ments, in­equal­ity and cap­i­tal­ism, pol­i­tics and se­cu­rity in China, East Asia, and the Pa­cific. He has pub­lished in jour­nals such as Jour­nal of Con­tem­po­rary Asia, In­ter­na­tional So­ci­ol­ogy, So­cial­ism and Democ­racy, and Jour­nal of Labor and So­ci­ety. He is the au­thor of "Chi­nese Pol­i­tics and Labor Move­ments" (2019).

is Pro­fes­sor for So­ci­ol­ogy/So­ci­o­log­i­cal The­ory at the Carl von Ossi­et­zky Uni­ver­sity in Old­en­burg (Oldb), Ger­many. Her re­search in­ter­ests are so­cial the­ory and the­ory of so­ci­ety. One of her major con­cerns is to an­a­lyze human life and human dig­nity/free­dom as foun­da­tional in­sti­tu­tions of mod­ern so­ci­eties.

is lec­turer at the In­sti­tute for So­ci­ol­ogy at RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude global in­equal­ity, de­vel­op­ment, so­ci­ol­ogy of time and quan­tifi­ca­tion. In 2012, she com­pleted her PhD the­sis "The mean­ing of af­flu­ence. Niklas Luh­mann, Tal­cott Par­sons and Pierre Bour­dieu on global in­equal­i­ties". Her cur­rent re­search fo­cuses on de­vel­op­ment in­di­ca­tors. It in­ves­ti­gates how these nu­mer­i­cal pol­icy tools re­late to time – for ex­am­ple, how they sym­bol­i­cally refer to past, present and fu­ture, and how they ar­tic­u­late with processes of so­cial change. Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions in­clude: "Soziale Ord­nungs­bil­dung durch Kollek­tivität: Luh­manns "Ebe­ne­nun­ter­schei­dung" und die mod­erne Welt­ge­sellschaft. In: In­ter­ak­tion – Or­gan­i­sa­tion – Gesellschaft. Son­der­band der Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie (Hrsg. Bet­tina Heintz und Hart­mann Tyrell), Stuttgart: Lu­cius & Lu­cius 2014 (in press)." "Tal­cott Par­sons: A So­ci­o­log­i­cal The­ory of Ac­tion Sys­tems. In: Dar­rell Arnold (Hrsg.), Tra­di­tions of Sys­tems The­ory: Major Fig­ures and De­vel­op­ments, Lon­don/New York: Rout­ledge, 2013."

stud­ied so­ci­ol­ogy and po­lit­i­cal sci­ence in Duisburg-​Essen, Biele­feld and St. Pe­ters­burg. He is cur­rently a doc­toral re­searcher at Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. In his PhD project, he an­a­lyzes how interaction-​like struc­tures en­able transna­tional con­nec­tions of so­cial move­ments. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude glob­al­iza­tion, in­ter­ac­tion, so­cial move­ments as well as ethnog­ra­phy and so­cial the­ory.

is a Post­doc­toral Re­search Fel­low at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, Ger­many. She re­ceived her PhD in So­ci­ol­ogy from the Uni­ver­sity of Ed­in­burgh in 2020. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude mi­gra­tion and work, eth­nic­ity and gen­der, emo­tion and in­ti­macy, and the pol­i­tics of care. Cur­rently, she is work­ing on the ERC-​funded project 'Wel­fare­Strug­gles' which com­par­a­tively ex­plores the logic of wel­fare pro­vi­sions for mi­grant work­ers in global fac­to­ries in China and Viet­nam. She is also work­ing on a mono­graph based on her PhD the­sis (under con­tract with Bris­tol Uni­ver­sity Press), which ex­plores the in­ter­twin­ing in­equal­i­ties of eth­nic­ity, rural-​urban di­vide, and gen­der in con­tem­po­rary China by look­ing at the work and mi­gra­tion ex­pe­ri­ences of eth­nic per­form­ers in South­west China.

re­ceived his PhD de­gree in 2017 at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He worked as re­searcher at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity and at TU Dres­den. His dis­ser­ta­tion the­sis de­bates the shap­ing and en­gi­neer­ing of mod­ern con­sumer sub­jec­tiv­i­ties in China. His re­search in­ter­ests re­volve around the lega­cies of colo­nial dis­course in con­tem­po­rary gov­ern­men­tal­ity regimes, with a spe­cial focus on how ideas of “back­ward­ness” are used to le­git­imize and pro­pel the en­gi­neer­ing of “mod­ern” sub­jects. His fields of ex­per­tise are post­colo­nial the­ory and gov­ern­men­tal­ity, with a the­matic focus on gov­ern­men­tal­ity of con­sump­tion and fam­ily life.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2018): Shop­ping in China. Dis­pos­i­tive kon­sum­istis­cher Sub­jek­ti­va­tion im All­t­agsleben chi­ne­sis­cher Studieren­der. Wies­baden: Springer.
• (2021): Die Kolo­nialität der Mod­erne: Kolo­niale Zeitlichkeit und die In­ter­nal­isierung der Idee der 'Rückständigkeit' in China. In: Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie 50 (1): 26-41.
• (2018): Con­test­ing Chi­nese Moder­nity? Post­colo­nial­ity and Dis­courses on Mod­erni­sa­tion at a Chi­nese Uni­ver­sity Cam­pus. In: Post­colo­nial Stud­ies 24 (4): 469-​484.
• (2017): Colo­nial Tem­po­ral­ity and Chi­nese Na­tional Mod­ern­iza­tion Dis­courses. In: In­ter­dis­ci­plines 8 (1): 51-80.

is pro­fes­sor of eco­nomic so­ci­ol­ogy and the so­ci­ol­ogy of work at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity's Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy. Pre­vi­ously, she was pro­fes­sor of so­ci­ol­ogy at the Eco­nom­ics De­part­ment of the Uni­ver­sity of Kla­gen­furt, Aus­tria. Her cur­rent re­search fo­cuses on eco­nomic glob­al­iza­tion and on transna­tion­ally mo­bile work. The processes and prob­lems of tran­scend­ing (po­lit­i­cal and cul­tural) bound­aries in the eco­nomic realm are at the cen­tre of her re­search in­ter­ests. As a mem­ber of the In­sti­tute of World So­ci­ety Stud­ies (IW), she is also in­ter­ested in world so­ci­ety the­ory and the world society-​specific so­cial struc­tures ("Eigen­struk­turen von Welt­ge­sellschaft", vgl. Stich­weh 2001), like global/transna­tional labour mar­kets.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2020): In­tro­duc­tion to the spe­cial theme: the­o­riz­ing transna­tional labour mar­kets, Global Net­works: glob.12284, on­line first: doi.org/10.1111/glob.12284
• (2020): In­ter­est rep­re­sen­ta­tion in transna­tional labour mar­kets: Cam­paign­ing as an al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tional union ac­tion?, Jour­nal of In­dus­trial Re­la­tions 62(2): 185-​209.
• (2019): The­o­riz­ing transna­tional labour mar­kets. A re­search heuris­tic based on the new eco­nomic so­ci­ol­ogy, Global Net­works: glob.12260, on­line first: doi.org/10.1111/glob.12260
• (2018): East­ern Eu­ro­pean Ser­vice Con­tract Work­ers in the Ger­man Meat In­dus­try. A Case Study in Mar­ket Mak­ing of a Transna­tional Labour Mar­ket, ZiF-​Mitteilungen 2018(2): 23-31.
• (with Spiegel, A. and Bre­denkötter, B.,2018): Ex­pa­tri­ate Man­agers: The Para­doxes of Work­ing and Liv­ing Abroad, Rout­ledge stud­ies in in­ter­na­tional busi­ness and the world econ­omy; 70, New York, Lon­don: Rout­ledge.

stud­ied so­ci­ol­ogy and po­lit­i­cal sci­ence at the Goethe Uni­ver­sity Frank­furt. After hav­ing worked as project co­or­di­na­tor of "LitKom" (Strength­en­ing Lit­eral Com­pe­tences) at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, he is cur­rently a doc­toral re­searcher at the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics". His dis­ser­ta­tion ex­plores social-​scientific di­ag­noses of the present as a com­par­a­tive mode of ob­ser­va­tion that is spe­cific to world so­ci­ety. Those 'world di­ag­noses' are re­con­structed as prod­ucts of dis­course lo­cated in the field of ten­sion be­tween sci­ence and pub­lic in­ter­ven­tion. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, so­ci­ol­ogy of pub­lic in­tel­lec­tu­als and the his­tory of ideas in the so­cial sci­ences.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tion:

• (2019): In­tellek­tuelle Krisen­bewälti­gung­spraxis in der Nachkriegs­ge­sellschaft. Die epis­temis­che Pro­duk­tivität der "Krise" in Rein­hart Kosel­lecks Stu­dien zur Krise der Mod­erne, in: Gost­mann, P. and A. Ivanova (eds.). Sozi­olo­gie des Geistes. Grund­la­gen und Fall­stu­dien zur Ideengeschichte des 20. Jahrhun­derts. Wies­baden: Springer VS, 237-​332.

is a re­searcher at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity in the DFG-​funded project "Zur In­sti­tu­tion­al­isierung der Rank­ings. Diskurskar­ri­eren tabel­lar­ischer Leis­tungsver­gle­iche 1850-​1980". Be­fore she was a doc­toral re­searcher at the grad­u­ate school "In­no­va­tion So­ci­ety Today" at TU Berlin. Her PhD fo­cuses on gov­ern­men­tal­ity and sub­jec­ti­va­tion in vo­ca­tional ori­en­ta­tion. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude po­lit­i­cal the­ory ? es­pe­cially post­struc­tural­ist the­ory, dis­course the­ory and gov­ern­men­tal­ity stud­ies ?, dis­course analy­sis, sub­jec­ti­va­tion analy­sis and his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy. In her cur­rent re­search she fo­cuses on the dis­cur­sive in­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of rank­ings in com­pet­i­tive sports in the 19th and 20th cen­tury.

(MA, Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld) is presently a lec­turer at the De­part­ment of So­ci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Lucerne (Switzer­land). She is com­plet­ing her PhD at the In­sti­tute for World So­ci­ety Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld (Ger­many). Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­ol­ogy and tech­nol­ogy stud­ies, in par­tic­u­lar the case of busi­ness soft­ware as a pat­tern of glob­al­iza­tion.

is a post­doc­toral re­searcher in the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 1288 "Prac­tices of Com­par­ing" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search cen­tres on two main themes. The first is the quan­tifi­ca­tion of world pol­i­tics and the pol­i­tics of com­par­i­son that this quan­tifi­ca­tion gen­er­ates. He is es­pe­cially in­ter­ested in the evo­lu­tion of the field of ac­tors that has pro­duced, dis­sem­i­nated and po­lit­i­cally mo­bilised com­par­a­tive knowl­edge on mil­i­tary ex­pen­di­tures, ca­pa­bil­i­ties and power since the Sec­ond World War. The sec­ond theme is the evo­lu­tion and in­ter­sec­tion of hi­er­ar­chies in world pol­i­tics. The in­ter­play be­tween the strat­i­fi­ca­tion and the gov­er­nance of in­ter­na­tional so­ci­ety is an ex­am­ple for an in­ter­sec­tion of so­cial and po­lit­i­cal hi­er­ar­chies in world pol­i­tics. In his PhD the­sis, he re­con­structed the his­tory of great pow­ers and their spe­cial rights and du­ties in the gov­er­nance of in­ter­na­tional so­ci­ety from the mid­dle of the eigh­teenth cen­tury to the present.

is a PhD can­di­date at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy and part of the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics". His dis­ser­ta­tion project fo­cuses on the rise of large-​scale field ex­per­i­ments in so­cial pol­icy since the 1990s, which are widely ad­vo­cated as an in­stru­ment to de­ter­mine 'what works' in pol­icy mak­ing. Other re­search in­ter­ests in­clude the study of moral­ity, sci­ence, in­no­va­tion, and in­sti­tu­tional change.

Kerem Gabriel Öktem is a Ph.D. can­di­date at Bilkent Uni­ver­sity in Ankara, Turkey, sched­uled to de­fend his dis­ser­ta­tion on Wel­fare States in the De­vel­op­ing World in 2016. Öktem spe­cialises in com­par­a­tive so­cial pol­icy re­search and meth­ods of quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive re­search. He is cur­rently work­ing in the re­search project "Map­ping the Turk­ish Wel­fare State", fi­nanced by the Sci­en­tific and Tech­no­log­i­cal Re­search Coun­cil of Turkey (TÜBITAK), on quan­ti­ta­tive and qual­i­ta­tive data pro­duc­tion and data analy­sis. From 2017 on­wards, he will be work­ing in the re­search project "How `so­cial´ is Turkey´ Turkey´s so­cial se­cu­rity sys­tem in a Eu­ro­pean con­text", funded by the Stiftung Mer­ca­tor. The project will lo­cate Turkeys ex­pe­ri­ence in the field of so­cial se­cu­rity in the broader world of wel­fare states and trace spe­cific so­cial poli­cies and their po­lit­i­cal and ideational back­grounds in four key areas of so­cial se­cu­rity.

Pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Er­do­gan, Cansu, 2020): Be­tween wel­fare state and (state-​organised) char­ity. How Turkey's so­cial as­sis­tance regime blends two com­pet­ing pol­icy par­a­digms. In­ter­na­tional Jour­nal of So­ci­ol­ogy and So­cial Pol­icy 40, 3/4, 205-​219, first on­line: doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-​11-2018-0217
• (with Böger, To­bias, 2019): Lev­els or worlds of wel­fare? As­sess­ing so­cial rights and so­cial strat­i­fi­ca­tion in North­ern and South­ern coun­tries. So­cial Pol­icy and Ad­min­is­tra­tion 53, 63-77.

is a Post­doc­toral Re­searcher. She com­pleted her PhD the­sis, ti­tled "The­o­riz­ing Re­gional In­te­gra­tion in the Caribbean: Neo­func­tion­al­ism and the Caribbean Com­mu­nity (CARI­COM)" at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy, funded by the Ex­cel­lence Ini­tia­tive of the Ger­man Re­search Foun­da­tion. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­cludes the in­ves­ti­ga­tion of in­ter­nal and ex­ter­nal eco­nomic, so­cial and po­lit­i­cal fac­tors af­fect­ing re­gional eco­nomic and po­lit­i­cal in­te­gra­tion in CARI­COM and the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of East­ern Caribbean States (OECS).

is a lec­turer at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He has 15 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence re­search­ing and writ­ing about In­done­sian reg­u­la­tory regimes re­lated to labour mi­gra­tion. Wayne’s cur­rent re­search projects focus on in­sti­tu­tional ca­pac­ity to en­force labour rights of for­eign­ers in In­done­sia. He teaches courses on labour rights en­force­ment and in­ter­na­tional or­gan­i­sa­tions, in­te­gra­tion in the Global South as well as on labour ex­ploita­tion in the fish­eries. Wayne is (co-)chief in­ves­ti­ga­tor on Aus­tralian Re­search Council-​funded project Em­ploy­ment Re­la­tions in In­done­sia’s Com­mer­cial Fish­ing In­dus­try, which will also ex­am­ine in­sti­tu­tional re­sponses to the labour rights of mi­grant fish­ers (co-​investigated with M. Ford and D. S. Ad­huri).

is pro­fes­sor of his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy at the fac­ulty of so­ci­ol­ogy. His re­search in­ter­ests focus on glob­al­iza­tion and world so­ci­ety re­search, the so­ci­ol­ogy of ex­per­tise, re­li­gion, im­mi­grant in­te­gra­tion, and the state. His cur­rent re­search deals with early "think tanks" at the in­ter­sec­tion of so­cial sci­ence and pol­i­tics and their in­flu­ence on colo­nial pol­icy in the Ger­man colo­nial em­pire.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2020): Mea­sures and Their Coun­ter­mea­sures. Re­flex­iv­ity and Second-​Order Re­ac­tiv­ity in Quan­ti­fy­ing Im­mi­grant In­te­gra­tion, So­ci­o­log­i­cal Forum 36: 206-​225.
• (2019): Per­form­ing the Re­li­gious Econ­omy in Nineteenth-​Century Evan­gel­i­cal Mis­sions: A 'Third Way' Ap­proach to Study­ing Re­li­gious Mar­kets, Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Cul­tural So­ci­ol­ogy 7: 321-​349.
• (2018): The Global 'Book­keep­ing' of Souls. Quan­tifi­ca­tion and Nineteenth-​Century Evan­gel­i­cal Mis­sions, So­cial Sci­ence His­tory 42: 183-​211.

is pro­fes­sor of so­cial an­thro­pol­ogy at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, Ger­many. Until July 2019, she was Sen­ate mem­ber of the Ger­man Re­search Foun­da­tion, Dean of her Fac­ulty and Co-​Director of the Cen­tre of In­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary re­search, ZIF. Her re­search fo­cusses cur­rently on knowl­edge pro­duc­tion and cir­cu­la­tion, on be­long­ing as well as on the 'so­cial life' (es­pe­cially the nexus of in­equal­ity and het­ero­gene­ity) of uni­ver­si­ties. Prof. Pfaff-​Czarnecka stud­ied at the Uni­ver­sity of Zurich where she worked for many years as aca­d­e­mic col­lab­o­ra­tor. She then shifted to the Cen­tre for De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Bonn where she acted as Se­nior Re­search Fel­low, as Deputy Di­rec­tor, and as Act­ing Di­rec­tor. She worked for a num­ber of de­vel­op­ment or­ga­ni­za­tions as con­sul­tant, and as trans­la­tor for the In­ter­na­tional Com­mit­tee of the Red Cross (ICRC). She has taught and vis­ited at the Uni­ver­si­ties Zurich, Bern, Ox­ford, Tokyo, JNU, New Delhi, and Kath­mandu Uni­ver­sity. Among her pub­li­ca­tions are: 'Spaces of Vi­o­lence in South Asian Democ­ra­cies' (Spe­cial Issue at Asian Jounal of So­cial Sci­ence 45 (6), 2017, 'Das soziale Leben der Uni­ver­sität. Stu­den­tis­ches Leben zwis­chen Selb­stfind­ung und Fremdbes­tim­mung' (The So­cial Life of Uni­ver­si­ties. Stu­dents' Lives be­tween Self-​discovery and Het­eron­omy), Biele­feld: tran­script, 2017; 'Fac­ing Glob­al­iza­tion in the Hi­malayas. Be­long­ing and the Pol­i­tics of the Self' (edited to­gether with G. Tof­fin), New Delhi: Sage, 2014; 'Eth­nic Fu­tures', writ­ten to­gether with A. Nandy, D. Ra­jasigham, T. Gomez, New Delhi: Sage, 1999.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Bro­sius, C., 2019): Shap­ing Asia: Con­nec­tiv­i­ties, Com­par­isons, Col­lab­o­ra­tions, isa.e-​Forum: 1-10.
• (2019): Sozialan­thro­polo­gie im Schat­ten der Welt­ge­sellschaft, in: Kruse, V., Stru­lik, T. (Eds.): Hochschulex­per­i­men­tier­platz Biele­feld - 50 Jahre Fakultät für Sozi­olo­gie, Biele­feld: tran­script, 311-​320.
• (with Kruck­en­berg, L. J., 2017): On the Mar­gins of World So­ci­ety: Work­ing with Im­pov­er­ished, Ex­cluded and Mar­gin­alised Peo­ple, in: Craw­ford G., Kruck­en­berg L. J., Lou­bere N., Mor­gan R. (Eds.): Un­der­stand­ing Global De­vel­op­ment Re­search, Lon­don: Sage, 89-​108.

brings more than 10 years of ex­pe­ri­ence - as a re­searcher, lec­turer and project man­ager - in the field of civil so­ci­ety, sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment and so­cial cap­i­tal, youth stud­ies and na­tional iden­tity, and rad­i­cal­iza­tion and vi­o­lent ex­trem­ism in Eu­rope, Rus­sia and Cen­tral Asia and, most re­cently, in the Mid­dle East and North Africa. She holds a PhD in So­ci­ol­ogy and So­cial Re­search from the Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity (Ger­many) and Trento Uni­ver­sity (Italy). Be­tween 2012 and 2018, Dr. Pier­obon served as man­ager of the St. Pe­ters­burg/Biele­feld Cen­tre for Ger­man and Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies (CGES/ZDES) funded by DAAD, of ed­u­ca­tion ex­change pro­grams such as the ERAS­MUS Mundus Joint Doc­tor­ate "Glob­al­iza­tion, the EU and Mul­ti­lat­er­al­ism (GEM)" funded by the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion and of col­lab­o­ra­tive re­search projects in­volv­ing dif­fer­ent uni­ver­si­ties in Cen­tral Asia. Since 2017, Dr. Pier­obon has been se­nior man­ager of the re­search pro­fes­sion­al­iza­tion project "Be­tween Sta­bil­ity and Trans­for­ma­tion: Re­gional and Transna­tional Co­op­er­a­tion in Cen­tral Asia and be­tween Cen­tral Asia and Eu­rope" funded by Volk­swa­gen Foun­da­tion. Dr. Pier­obon is for­mer Vis­it­ing Pro­fes­sor for Macroso­ci­ol­ogy and Eu­ro­pean So­ci­eties at the Otto-​von-Guericke Uni­ver­sity Magde­burg (Ger­many) and the Uni­ver­sity of Malaya/Asia-​Europe In­sti­tute (Malaysia), Vis­it­ing Scholar at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity of Cen­tral Asia (Kyr­gyzs­tan), Ger­man Kazakh-​University (Kaza­khstan), Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia/Berke­ley (USA) and St. Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity (Rus­sia) and Guest Lec­turer at Ala-​Too Uni­ver­sity (Kyr­gyzs­tan), Hel­mut Schmidt Uni­ver­sity in Ham­burg (Ger­many) and Kyrgyz-​National Uni­ver­sity (Kyr­gyzs­tan).

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2020): Pre­vent­ing Vi­o­lent Ex­trem­ism in Kyr­gyzs­tan: the Role of the In­ter­na­tional Donor Com­mu­nity, Cen­tral Asia Pol­icy Brief 56. Avail­able at http://osce-​academy.net/up­load/file/Chiara_Pier­obon.pdf
• (2020): Global Gov­er­nance, Multi-​Actor Co­op­er­a­tion, and Civil So­ci­ety. In: Leal Filho W., Azul A., Bran­dli L., Özuyar P., Wall T. (eds.): Peace, Jus­tice and Strong In­sti­tu­tions. En­cy­clo­pe­dia of the UN Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment Goals. Springer: Cham (DOI 10.1007/978-​3-319-71066-2)
• (2019): The Power of Civil So­ci­ety in the Mid­dle East and North Africa: Peace-​building, Change, and De­vel­op­ment. Rout­ledge: Abing­ton (DOI 10.4324/9780429265006) edited with Natil, I. and Tauber, L.
• (2019): In­tro­duc­tion, in: Natil, I., Pier­obon, C. and Trauber, L. (eds.): The Power of Civil So­ci­ety in the Mid­dle East and North Africa: Peace-​Building, Change and De­vel­op­ment. Rout­ledge: Abing­ton [with Natil, I. and Trauber, L.], 1-12.
• (2019): In­tro­duc­ing Civil So­ci­ety, in: Natil, I., Pier­obon, C. and Tauber, L. (eds.): The Power of Civil So­ci­ety in the Mid­dle East and North Africa: Peace-​building, Change, and De­vel­op­ment. Rout­ledge: Abing­ton [with Natil, I. and Trauber, L.], 13-23.
• (2019): Con­clu­sion, in: Natil, I., Pier­obon, C. and Trauber, L. (eds.): The Power of Civil So­ci­ety in the Mid­dle East and North Africa: Peace-​Building, Change and De­vel­op­ment. Rout­ledge: Abing­ton [with Natil, I. and Trauber, L.], 170-​176.
• (2019): The EU, Civil So­ci­ety, and So­cial Cap­i­tal in Kaza­khstan: a pilot eval­u­a­tion of the EIDHR and NSA/LA, Jour­nal of Eval­u­a­tion, 25(2), 207-​223 (DOI 10.1177/1356389018796023)
• (2019): Pro­mot­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment through civil so­ci­ety: a case study of the EU's NSA/LA the­matic pro­gram in Kyr­gyzs­tan, De­vel­op­ment Pol­icy Re­view, 37, 179-​192 (On­line first: DOI 10.1111/dpr.12411)

Nicola Piper, a po­lit­i­cal so­ci­ol­o­gist with PhD from the Uni­ver­sity of Sheffield in the UK, is the Found­ing Di­rec­tor of the Syd­ney Asia Pa­cific Mi­gra­tion Cen­tre (Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney) and for­mer co-​director of the Cen­tre for Mi­gra­tion Pol­icy Stud­ies at Swansea Uni­ver­sity, UK. She is cur­rently British Acad­emy Global Pro­fes­sor Fel­low at Queen Mary Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don’s School of Law. As a scholar of in­ter­na­tional labour mi­gra­tion whose main in­ter­est has been var­i­ous man­i­fes­ta­tions of mi­grant worker pre­car­ity, her re­search on cross-​border mi­gra­tion of work­ers has been in­formed by so­cial move­ment schol­ar­ship, reg­u­la­tion/gov­er­nance, human rights and labour stud­ies. She is co-​editor of the jour­nal Global So­cial Pol­icy (SAGE) and co-​editor of two book se­ries: Asian Mi­gra­tion (Rout­ledge) and Mo­bil­ity & Pol­i­tics (Pal­grave). Her cur­rent work fo­cuses on the mul­ti­func­tional role of the In­ter­na­tional Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion in the pro­mo­tion of de­cent work for mi­grants within the multi-​actor sphere of global mi­gra­tion gov­er­nance. Key out­puts on this topic to date (whilst oth­ers are still “in draft­ing”) are the fol­low­ing:

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2023): When Food is Fi­nance: Seek­ing Global Jus­tice for Mi­grant Work­ers. In: Stud­ies in So­cial Jus­tice Vol. 17 (1). Avail­able at https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v17i1.4031 [with Sime­one, L. and Rose­warne, S.]
• (2022): The In­ter­na­tional Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion as nodal player on the pitch of net­worked gov­er­nance: shift­ing the goal­posts for mi­grant work­ers in Qatar. In: Global So­cial Pol­icy 22 (2): 323-​340. (https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181211065240)
• (2021): Global part­ner­ships in gov­ern­ing labour mi­gra­tion: the un­easy re­la­tion­ship be­tween the ILO and IOM in the pro­mo­tion of de­cent work for mi­grants. In: Global Pub­lic Pol­icy and Gov­er­nance 1 (3): 256-​278. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s43508-​021-00022-x) [with Foley, L.]
• (2021): Global Labor Mi­gra­tion: Shift­ing Gov­er­nance Regimes, Rights Deficits, and the Search for Order. In: LABOR – Stud­ies in Working-​Class His­tory, vol. 18 (1): 67-86. (https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-​8767350) [with Fan­ning, C.]
• (2017): Mi­grant Pre­car­ity: ‘Net­works of Labour’ for a rights-​based gov­er­nance of mi­gra­tion. In: De­vel­op­ment and Change 48 (5): 1089-​1110. (DOI: 10.1111/dech.12337) [with Rose­warne, S. and With­ers, M.]

Daniela Portella Sam­paio is a Re­search As­so­ciate work­ing at the project ‘The World­views of Ice: Cog­ni­tive frames and con­struc­tions of the Arc­tic and the Sci­ence/Pol­i­tics in­ter­face’, led by Prof. Math­ias Al­bert. Hold­ing a doc­toral de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions and a MRes in So­ci­ol­ogy, she has been work­ing as a Sec­re­tariat Ad­vi­sor for Antarc­tic Treaty Con­sul­ta­tive Meet­ings since 2015. She also held a Marie Curie Re­search Fel­low­ship at the Uni­ver­sity of Leeds with the project PO­LARGOV, which in­ves­ti­gated the Antarc­tic Treaty Sys­tem gov­er­nance, with spe­cial focus on fish­ing and tourism man­age­ment. She was a fi­nal­ist at the MSCA-​Awards in 2019 in the cat­e­gory ‘Sci­en­tific Ca­reers for Pol­icy Mak­ing’. Cur­rently, her re­search in­ter­ests are the sci­ence/pol­i­tics in­ter­face in the im­ple­men­ta­tion process of in­stru­ments for the man­age­ment of human and en­vi­ron­men­tal emer­gen­cies in the Antarc­tic re­gion.

Re­cent Pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2022). Diplo­matic cul­ture and in­sti­tu­tional de­sign: Analysing sixty years of Antarc­tic Treaty gov­er­nance. An­nals of the Brazil­ian Acad­emy of Sci­ence 94 (1).
• (2019). The Antarc­tic ex­cep­tion: how sci­ence and en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion pro­vided al­ter­na­tive au­thor­ity de­ploy­ment and ter­ri­to­ri­al­ity in Antarc­tica. Aus­tralian Jour­nal of Mar­itime & Ocean Af­fairs 11 (2): 107-​119.
• (2017). A mod­est but in­ten­si­fy­ing power? Brazil, the Antarc­tic Treaty Sys­tem and Antarc­tica, in: Dodds, Klaus, Peder Roberts and Alan Hem­mings (eds.). Hand­book on the Pol­i­tics of Antarc­tica, Ed­ward Elgar Pub­lish­ing.

Work­ing as a post­doc­toral re­searcher at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, Ralf Ra­pior broadly ad­dresses post­colo­nial cri­tique of so­ci­o­log­i­cal knowl­edge. He ex­am­ines So­ci­ol­ogy’s Eu­ro­cen­trism, im­pe­r­ial am­ne­sia, en­tan­gle­ments and lega­cies. En­gag­ing with post­colo­nial global and im­pe­r­ial his­tory, he crit­i­cally car­ries on the tra­di­tion of His­tor­i­cal So­ci­ol­ogy. His main re­search fields are post­colo­nial and global his­tor­i­cal so­ci­olo­gies, with spe­cific in­ter­est in so­cial his­tory and the­ory of em­pires, states and so­ci­eties, mul­ti­ple moder­ni­ties, glob­al­iza­tions and world so­ci­ety, and the form of so­ci­ol­ogy it­self. His main pub­li­ca­tions are: „Im­pe­rien: Zur Sozi­olo­gie einer vergesse­nen Verge­sellschaf­tungs­form“ [Em­pires: To­wards a So­ci­ol­ogy of a For­got­ten Form of So­ci­eti­za­tion] (forth­com­ing 2022, Frank­furt a.M.: Cam­pus); „Bring­ing the Em­pire (Back) In: Zur Überwin­dung des Eu­rozen­tris­mus in der Welt­ge­sellschafts­forschung“ [Over­com­ing Eu­ro­cen­trism in World So­ci­ety Stud­ies] (2020 in Ben­nani H, Bühler M, Cramer S, Glauser A (Eds): Global beobachten und ver­gle­ichen. Sozi­ol­o­gis­che Analy­sen zur Welt­ge­sellschaft, Frank­furt a.M.: Cam­pus: 35-77); „There Is No Coun­try That Has Not Passed Through a Colo­nial Regime: Zum Im­perium als Grund­be­griff his­torischer Sozi­olo­gie“ [On Em­pire as a Basic Con­cept of His­tor­i­cal So­ci­ol­ogy] (2019 in Burzan N (Ed): Kom­plexe Dy­namiken glob­aler und lokaler En­twick­lun­gen. Ver­hand­lun­gen des 39. Kon­gresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozi­olo­gie in Göttin­gen 2018, Essen: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozi­olo­gie).

is post­doc re­searcher in the project "Di­ver­sity and Change of Par­ent­ing in Mi­grant Fam­i­lies" ("Di­ver­sität und Wan­del der Erziehung in Mi­granten­fam­i­lien"; DIWAN) at the Munich-​based Ger­man Youth In­sti­tute (DJI). She stud­ied so­ci­ol­ogy at the Lud­wig Max­i­m­il­ian Uni­ver­sity of Mu­nich and holds a PhD from Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Eve­line Reise­nauer has par­tic­i­pated in sev­eral na­tional and in­ter­na­tional re­search projects on mi­gra­tion and transna­tion­al­i­sa­tion, pay­ing par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion on per­sonal re­la­tion­ships and fam­i­lies. Her mono­graph "Transna­tionale persönliche Beziehun­gen in der Mi­gra­tion" (Springer VS, 2017) is based on her PhD the­sis. More­over, she is a co-​author of "Transna­tional Mi­gra­tion" (with Thomas Faist and Mar­git Fauser, Polity Press, 2013).

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the project "Power com­par­isons in times of world-​political change, 1970-​2020" ("Machtver­gle­iche in Zeiten welt­poli­tis­chen Wan­dels, 1970-​2020") at the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­tre 1288 "Prac­tices of com­par­ing" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search top­ics in­clude power com­par­isons, the im­pact of in­for­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nolo­gies on the per­cep­tion of power, and for­eign pol­icy (with a focus on North Amer­ica). She holds a Bach­e­lor's de­gree (B.A.) in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and His­tory from the Uni­ver­sity of Münster and a Mas­ter's de­gree (M.Sc.) in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions from the Uni­ver­sity of Bris­tol. Be­fore join­ing Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, she worked as re­searcher for Eu­ro­pean School­net's Dig­i­tal Cit­i­zen­ship de­part­ment.

is Lec­turer (Akademis­cher Rat) at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His re­search in­ter­ests are or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­ol­ogy, po­lit­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy, world so­ci­ety stud­ies, his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy, and qual­i­ta­tive method­ol­ogy. In his dis­ser­ta­tion he stud­ied the emer­gence of trans­parency as a global norm, its im­ple­men­ta­tion in or­ga­ni­za­tions, and un­in­tended side-​effects. His cur­rent re­search fo­cuses on the his­tory and in­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of rank­ings. He has pub­lished in Or­ga­ni­za­tion Stud­ies and Re­search in the So­ci­ol­ogy of Or­ga­ni­za­tions. He holds a PhD from Heinrich-​Heine-University Dues­sel­dorf, Ger­many.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Brankovic, J. and T. Wer­ron, 2020): The or­ga­ni­za­tional en­gine of rank­ings: Con­nect­ing "new" and "old" in­sti­tu­tion­al­ism. Pol­i­tics and Gov­er­nance, spe­cial issue "Quan­tifi­ca­tion in Higher Ed­u­ca­tion", 8, 36-47.
• (2019): Un­pack­ing the Transparency-​Secrecy Nexus: Frontstage and Back­stage Be­hav­iour in a Po­lit­i­cal Party. Or­ga­ni­za­tion Stud­ies, 40, 705-​723.
• (2019): Trans­parenz in der Poli­tik? Gren­zen, Prob­leme und nicht in­tendierte Fol­gen. Kölner Zeitschrift für Sozi­olo­gie und Sozialpsy­cholo­gie, 71, 111-​133.

is pro­fes­sor for En­tan­gled His­tory in the Amer­i­cas (16th to 19th cen­turies) and di­rec­tor of the Cen­ter for In­ter­Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. She was trained as an eco­nomic, so­cial, and en­vi­ron­men­tal his­to­rian at the Uni­ver­sity of Bern, Switzer­land, and re­ceived her PhD from the Ruhr-​University Bochum. She con­ducted the re­search for her PhD in the in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary re­search con­text of the In­sti­tute for Ad­vanced Study in the Hu­man­i­ties Essen (KWI)'s pro­gram Cli­mate and Cul­ture, in which she was a PhD fel­low from 2008 to 2012. Eleonora's cur­rent re­search focus brings to­gether en­vi­ron­men­tal his­tory, and specif­i­cally cli­mate impact-​ and dis­as­ter his­tory with the per­spec­tive of en­tan­gled his­tory(ies). In this con­text she is also in­ter­ested in the An­thro­pocene and its im­por­tant (and un­equal) pre-​history in the Amer­i­cas and the Caribbean in par­tic­u­lar. Eleonora is a co-​initiator and co-​organizer of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity's in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary lec­ture se­ries on the cli­mate cri­sis Lec­tures for Fu­ture Biele­feld, she is a co-PI in the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­ter (SFB) 1288 Prac­tices of Com­par­ing: Or­der­ing and Chang­ing the World and Co-​Coordinator of the re­search group Cop­ing with En­vi­ron­men­tal Crises at the Maria Sibylla Mer­ian Cen­ter for Ad­vanced Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies (CALAS), a BMBF-​funded project be­tween the Uni­ver­si­ties of Biele­feld, Kas­sel, Jena, Han­nover and Guadala­jara, Mex­ico.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Vir­ginia García Acosta, 2020): Dis­as­ters, in: Tit­tor, Anne, Kalt­meier, Olaf, Leubolt, Bern­hard, Hawkins, David, Roh­land, Eleonora (eds.): The Rout­ledge Hand­book to the Po­lit­i­cal Econ­omy and Gov­er­nance of the Amer­i­cas, Vol. II, Part II, New York: Rout­ledge, p. 351-​59.
• (2019): Changes in the Air. Hur­ri­canes in New Or­leans from 1718 to the Present, (En­vi­ron­men­tal His­tory: In­ter­na­tional Per­spec­tives 15), ed. by: Dolly Jor­gensen, Christof Mauch, Kieko Mat­te­son, and Hel­muth Trischler, Berghahn Books: New York , Ox­ford.
• (with George Adam­son and Matthew Han­naford, Jan­u­ary 2018): Re­think­ing the Present: The Role of A His­tor­i­cal Focus in Cli­mate Change Adap­ta­tion Re­search, in: Global En­vi­ron­men­tal Change, DOI: 10.1016/j.gloen­vcha.2017.12.003.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity and an as­so­ciate re­searcher at the Cen­tre for Ger­man and Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her doc­toral project ex­plores the po­lit­i­cal agenda of global cities in global gov­er­nance. Ta­tiana re­ceived a dou­ble bach­e­lor's de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions, Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, and Human Rights from Saint Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity and Bard Col­lege in the United States, as well as a mas­ter's de­gree in "Stud­ies in Eu­ro­pean So­ci­eties" from St. Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity. Be­fore join­ing the RTG, Ta­tiana re­searched for the think tank "Eu­ro­pean Pol­i­tics" (Rad­boud Uni­ver­sity - St. Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity, project for the Nether­lands Com­mis­sion for UN­ESCO), Trans­parency In­ter­na­tional, World Her­itage Watch, and the In­sti­tute for De­vel­op­ment of Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude transna­tional gov­er­nance, non-​state ac­tors in world pol­i­tics, urban so­ci­ol­ogy, and global urban pol­i­tics.

is a Lec­turer for Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Be­sides his work at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity he is cur­rently na­tional rep­re­sen­ta­tive in the NATO STO-​Panel`De­fend­ing Democ­racy´. His cur­rent main re­search in­ter­ests are the se­cu­ri­ti­za­tion of the cyber-​and information-​space, as well as the nexus of mil­i­tary the­ory and world so­ci­ety the­ory. An­other field of re­search is his re­gional focus on se­cu­rity dy­nam­ics in East Asia.

Re­cent Pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2022). A ´Global In­for­ma­tion En­vi­ron­ment´? – Dif­fu­sion of Com­pe­tences and Re­spon­si­bil­i­ties from Sov­er­eign States to In­ter­na­tional Or­ga­ni­za­tions in the Global In­for­ma­tion En­vi­ron­ment. NATO-​STO, IST-​195.
• (2022). Strate­gis­ches Faser­land – Warum die deutsche Wirtschaft deutsche Sicher­heit­spoli­tik strate­giefähig macht. #GID­Ses­say

is Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nomic So­ci­ol­ogy and the So­ci­ol­ogy of Work at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. She is cur­rently PI in the RTG 2951 “Cross-​border Labour Mar­kets: Transna­tional Mar­ket Mak­ers, In­fra­struc­tures, In­sti­tu­tions”. For sev­eral years, she has been a mem­ber of the net­work of ex­perts for „Sci­en­tific analy­sis and ad­vice on gen­der equal­ity in the EU (SAAGE)“ on be­half of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion. Her re­search fo­cuses on gen­der at work and gen­dered labour mar­kets, in­clud­ing digi­ti­sa­tion of work, in­equal­i­ties and so­cial re­pro­duc­tion.

Re­cent Pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Schiffbänker, H., Walker, D. and Wienkamp, G, 2023): Dou­ble Fragility: The Care Cri­sis in Times of Pan­demic. Gen­der and Re­search 24(1), 11-35
• (edited with Roth, J. and Winkel, H. 2022): Global Con­tes­ta­tions of Gen­der Rights. Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity Press. Biele­feld: Tran­script Ver­lag
• (with Ahrens, P. 2022): Game-​changers for Gen­der Equal­ity on Ger­many’s Labour Mar­ket? Cor­po­rate Board Quo­tas, Pay Trans­parency and Tem­po­rary Part-​Time. Ger­man Pol­i­tics, Spe­cial Issue 31(1), 157-​176.
• (2022): The Role of Gen­der in the Mak­ing of Global Labour Mar­kets. In: Mense-​Petermann, Ur­sula/Wel­skopp, Thomas/Za­harieva, Anna (eds.): In Search of the Global Labour Mar­ket. Lei­den: Brill Pub­lisher, 87-​100.
• (with Plomien, A. and Sproll, M. 2022): So­cial Re­pro­duc­tion and State Re­sponses to the Global Covid-​19 Pan­demic: Keep­ing Cap­i­tal­ism on the Move? In: Kupfer, An­to­nia/Stutz, Con­stanze (eds.): Covid, Cri­sis, Care, and Change? In­ter­na­tional Gen­der Per­spec­tives on Re/ Pro­duc­tion, State and Fem­i­nist Tran­si­tions. Opladen: Ver­lag Bar­bara Bu­drich, 139-​152

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the RTG "cross-​border labor mar­kets" pro­gram at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search cen­ters on the global labor mar­ket for per­for­mance arts, specif­i­cally cir­cus artists. Prior to start­ing her re­search project in April 2024, she earned a Mas­ter's de­gree in So­ci­ol­ogy from the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Berlin, which in­cluded two ex­change se­mes­ters in Turkey and South Korea. Her cur­rent re­search in­ter­ests en­com­pass glob­al­iza­tion the­ory, the so­ci­ol­ogy of space, the so­ci­ol­ogy of per­form­ing arts, and mo­bil­ity stud­ies.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He stud­ied Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and So­ci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Biele­feld, Gent and Umeå. His PhD project in­ves­ti­gates the emer­gence of eco-​social pol­icy dis­courses within the global gov­er­nance sys­tem. Next to map­ping the ap­pear­ing eco-​social pol­icy scripts, gen­eral guid­ing ques­tion of the analy­sis is wether the emer­gence of eco-​social pol­icy dis­courses on a global level rep­re­sents a shift of pol­icy par­a­digms.

(M.A. Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity Vi­ad­rina, Frank­furt Oder) is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her dis­ser­ta­tion project fo­cuses on in­vol­un­tary re­turn and mi­gra­tion dy­nam­ics in West Africa against the back­ground of ex­ter­nal­iza­tion of EU mi­gra­tion poli­cies, and specif­i­cally the in­di­vid­ual di­men­sions of post de­por­ta­tion in Mali. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude mi­gra­tion, de­vel­op­ment, transna­tional and local net­works as well as in­te­gra­tion, dis­crim­i­na­tion and gen­der re­la­tions. From 2009 to 2013, she worked at the In­ter­na­tional Or­ga­ni­za­tion for Mi­gra­tion (IOM) in Geneva, Ankara and Nurem­berg.

is re­searcher of or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­ol­ogy and in­ter­na­tional busi­ness stud­ies. His cur­rent re­search fo­cuses on the in­ter­na­tion­al­iza­tion processes of com­pa­nies and its con­se­quences for or­ga­ni­za­tional the­ory. In his PHD-​Project “Or­ga­ni­za­tions as Multi­na­tional Com­pa­nies” he de­vel­ops a gen­uine or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­o­log­i­cal point of view of in­ter­na­tion­al­iza­tion processes of com­pa­nies, fo­cus­ing on the re­search ques­tion: What kind of or­ga­ni­za­tional dif­fer­ences do in­ter­na­tion­al­iza­tion processes have for com­pa­nies as so­cial sys­tems? He is re­search as­sis­tant in the project: “The Glob­al­iza­tion of Small and Medium-​sized En­ter­prises”.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the chair for "Eu­ro­pean and In­ter­na­tional Pol­i­tics" at Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity Vi­ad­rina and a re­search as­so­ciate of the project „The dis­cur­sive con­struc­tion of con­flict and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tional decision-​making processes be­tween nor­ma­tive frame­works of peace­build­ing and se­cu­ri­ti­za­tion - the case of the UN As­sis­tance Mis­sion for Iraq (UNAMI)" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, funded by the Ger­man Foun­da­tion for Peace Re­search. Her re­search fo­cuses on world so­ci­ety the­ory and peace and con­flict stud­ies, the so­ci­ol­ogy of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions, in­clu­sion and ex­clu­sion processes of eth­nic mi­nori­ties and Eu­ro­pean For­eign and Se­cu­rity Pol­icy. Cur­rent projects in­clude re­search on global di­men­sions of in­trastate con­flicts – es­pe­cially re­la­tions be­tween eth­nic mi­nori­ties and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions (PhD project) as well as an ar­ti­cle on UN in­ter­ven­tions from a world so­ci­ety per­spec­tive (forth­com­ing in 2014, co-​authored with Ker­stin Ep­pert and Math­ias Al­bert).

is re­search fel­low at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. He has been as­sis­tant pro­fes­sor at Lei­den Uni­ver­sity and vis­it­ing fel­low at the Max Planck In­sti­tute for the His­tory of Sci­ence. He has writ­ten ex­ten­sively on the the­ory of his­tory, time and tem­po­ral­ity, and the chal­lenges posed by tech­nol­ogy and the An­thro­pocene to the human con­di­tion and to mod­ern his­tor­i­cal think­ing. His ar­ti­cles can be read in jour­nals rang­ing from His­tory and The­ory to The An­thro­pocene Re­view. He is the au­thor of His­tory in Times of Un­prece­dented Change: A The­ory for the 21st Cen­tury (Blooms­bury, 2019) and The Epochal Event: Trans­for­ma­tions in the En­tan­gled Human, Tech­no­log­i­cal, and Nat­ural Words (Pal­grave, 2020).

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) and a mem­ber of the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics". Her dis­ser­ta­tion ex­am­ines the emer­gence and rise of world so­ci­ety from the per­spec­tive of in­ter­na­tional law. Its main goal is to prove that world so­ci­ety is pro­gress­ing, through­out legal de­vel­op­ment, in a more ro­bust way than es­ti­mated even by the most op­ti­mistic Eng­lish School the­o­rists. Sim­sek re­ceived her M.A. in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions from Uni­ver­sité Galatasaray, Is­tan­bul. Among her gen­eral re­search in­ter­ests are Eng­lish School the­ory, in­ter­na­tional hu­man­i­tar­ian law, crit­i­cal ap­proaches to in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions, chal­lenges, and re­con­struc­tion of the cur­rent world order.

is a post­doc­toral re­searcher in the DFG funded Project “Ex­pa­tri­ate Man­ager. A New Cos­mopoli­tan Elite? Habi­tus, Every Day Prac­tices and Net­works”. She has car­ried our re­search on translo­cal spaces and transna­tion­al­iza­tion of knowl­edge in dif­fer­ent em­pir­i­cal fields. In her re­search on translo­cal life worlds of fe­male Bo­li­vian mi­grants in the Global City Buenos Aires she con­cen­trated on dance as a translo­cal prac­tice. As a re­searcher in the VW funded Project „Ne­go­ti­at­ing De­vel­op­ment: Translo­cal Gen­dered Spaces in Mus­lim So­ci­eties“ and in her doc­toral dis­ser­ta­tion she fo­cused on the transna­tional ne­go­ti­a­tions of pub­lic spheres, Women's and Human Rights in is­lamiz­ing Malaysia. In the cur­rent project on Ex­pa­tri­ate Man­agers she car­ries out re­search on highly skilled mi­gra­tion and mo­bil­ity in the con­text on transna­tional cor­po­ra­tions. Her main re­search in­ter­ests are: transna­tion­al­iza­tion and mo­bil­ity, skilled and non skilled mi­gra­tion, global civil so­ci­ety, global ne­go­ti­a­tions of knowl­edge, processes of iden­tity con­struc­tion in Latin Amer­ica and South­east Asia, global ethnog­ra­phy.

is Pro­fes­sor of In­ter­na­tional Pol­i­tics and Con­flict Stud­ies. His re­search pri­or­i­ties are the­o­ries of in­ter­na­tional pol­i­tics in global moder­nity, pri­mar­ily from a historical-​sociological and socio-​theoretical per­spec­tive; em­pires and (post)colo­nial­ism in in­ter­na­tional pol­i­tics; pol­i­tics, con­flicts and so­ci­ety in the Mid­dle East, spe­cial­iz­ing in par­tic­u­lar on Is­rael and Pales­tine; and EU for­eign re­la­tions, spe­cial­iz­ing in par­tic­u­lar on the Eu­ro­pean Neigh­bor­hood Pol­icy. His re­search work ap­pears in lead­ing jour­nals and with lead­ing book pub­lish­ers. In 2014, fol­low­ing his stud­ies at the Ruprecht Karl Uni­ver­sity of Hei­del­berg, the He­brew Uni­ver­sity of Jerusalem, and the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence (LSE), he ob­tained his doc­tor­ate with a the­sis on EU for­eign and do­mes­tic pol­icy at the LSE, which in­cluded a six-​month pe­riod of study at the Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity In­sti­tute in Flo­rence. From 2003 to 2006, he was a re­search as­so­ciate in the Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence Ed­u­ca­tion and Re­search De­part­ment and at the In­sti­tute of World So­ci­ety at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld. From 2007 to 2008, Stephan Stet­ter was a deputy pro­fes­sor for po­lit­i­cal sci­ence at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld, where he gained his Ha­bil­i­ta­tion in Jan­u­ary 2008. Since Oc­to­ber 2008, he has been Pro­fes­sor at the Bun­deswehr Uni­ver­sity Mu­nich. From 2012 to 2018, Stephan Stet­ter was a co-​speaker of the In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions sec­tion of the Deutsche Vere­ini­gung für Poli­tis­che Wis­senschaft (Ger­man As­so­ci­a­tion for Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence). Since 2010, he has been one of the ed­i­tors of the Zeitschrift für In­ter­na­tionale Beziehun­gen (https://zib-​online.org/), work­ing to­gether with Prof. Carlo Masala from 2010 to 2014 as man­ag­ing ed­i­tor. From 2014 to 2018, he was the Dean of the Fac­ulty of So­cial Sci­ences and Pub­lic Af­fairs.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• Stephan Stet­ter & Mitra Moussa Nabo (eds.) 2020: Mid­dle East Chris­tian­ity: Local Prac­tices, World So­ci­etal En­tan­gle­ments, New York: Pal­grave, 2020.
• Di­et­rich Jung & Stephan Stet­ter (eds.) 2018: Mod­ern Sub­jec­tiv­i­ties in World So­ci­ety: Global Struc­tures and Local Prac­tices, New York: Pal­grave, 2018.

is Pro­fes­sor of Po­lit­i­cal So­ci­ol­ogy at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy. In his work he ex­plores the in­ter­twine­ment of sci­ence and pol­i­tics in world so­ci­ety, the role of ex­per­tise in pub­lic pol­icy, the ways eco­nomic dis­courses shape so­cial reg­u­la­tion and the gov­er­nance net­works in and be­tween pol­icy areas such as con­sumer pol­icy, food safety, en­ergy, mo­bil­ity, global health and cli­mate change. Hol­ger is ap­pointed mem­ber of the Ethics Com­mis­sion at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity and elected board mem­ber at the In­sti­tute for In­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary Stud­ies of Sci­ence (ISOS). He is a mem­ber of the ed­i­to­r­ial board of the Crit­i­cal Pol­icy Stud­ies Jour­nal and co-​editor of the Ad­vances in Crit­i­cal Pol­icy Book Se­ries. Among his most re­cent pub­li­ca­tions is the "Hand­book of Be­hav­ioural Change and Pub­lic Pol­icy" (2019, co-​edited with S. Beck.).

is a doc­toral re­searcher in the DFG project “How rank­ings are being pro­duced” at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search project fo­cuses on the in­ter­sec­tion of cli­mate change, global gov­er­nance, and com­par­a­tive prac­tices in the case study of the Cli­mate Change Per­for­mance In­di­ca­tor. Elis­a­beth Stri­et­zel joined the project in June 2022 after study­ing so­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her cur­rent re­search in­ter­ests in­clude so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, so­ci­ol­ogy of com­par­isons, sci­ence and so­cial prac­tices as well as world so­ci­ety stud­ies.

is Se­nior Lec­turer at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy, Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. His main areas of re­search are so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, eco­nomic so­ci­ol­ogy, or­ga­ni­za­tional so­ci­ol­ogy and po­lit­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy. Fo­cus­ing on the emer­gence and the con­se­quences of cog­ni­tive forms of reg­u­la­tion, he is par­tic­u­larly con­cerned with reg­u­la­tory in­no­va­tions in the field of global fi­nance.

is a doc­toral re­searcher who has par­tic­i­pated in the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS), Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, since Oc­to­ber 2020. He stud­ied In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence at Ramkhamhaeng Uni­ver­sity in Thai­land. Cur­rently, he is also a fac­ulty mem­ber af­fil­i­ated with the De­part­ment of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Fac­ulty of Hu­man­i­ties and So­cial Sci­ences at Valaya Alongkorn Ra­jab­hat Uni­ver­sity in Thai­land since 2015. He is now work­ing on a cu­mu­la­tive dis­ser­ta­tion with a focus on Transna­tional Health Pol­icy in­ves­ti­gat­ing, in the par­tic­u­lar case, of how Thai­land's health sys­tem and gov­er­nance like in the mul­ti­level con­texts. His in­ter­ests in­clude transna­tional so­cial pol­icy, mi­gra­tion, health gov­er­nance, and re­gional so­cial pol­icy and in­te­gra­tion.

is a doc­toral re­searcher at the chair for "Eu­ro­pean and In­ter­na­tional Pol­i­tics" at Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity Vi­ad­rina and a re­search as­so­ciate of the project „The dis­cur­sive con­struc­tion of con­flict and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tional decision-​making processes be­tween nor­ma­tive frame­works of peace­build­ing and se­cu­ri­ti­za­tion - the case of the UN As­sis­tance Mis­sion for Iraq (UNAMI)" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, funded by the Ger­man Foun­da­tion for Peace Re­search. Her re­search fo­cuses on world so­ci­ety the­ory and peace and con­flict stud­ies, the so­ci­ol­ogy of in­ter­na­tional re­la­tions, in­clu­sion and ex­clu­sion processes of eth­nic mi­nori­ties and Eu­ro­pean For­eign and Se­cu­rity Pol­icy. Cur­rent projects in­clude re­search on global di­men­sions of in­trastate con­flicts – es­pe­cially re­la­tions be­tween eth­nic mi­nori­ties and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions (PhD project) as well as an ar­ti­cle on UN in­ter­ven­tions from a world so­ci­ety per­spec­tive (forth­com­ing in 2014, co-​authored with Ker­stin Ep­pert and Math­ias Al­bert).

(MA, Uni­ver­sity of Hei­del­berg) is com­plet­ing her PhD at the In­sti­tute for World So­ci­ety Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld (Ger­many). Her dis­ser­ta­tion project fo­cuses on the in­sti­tu­tion­al­iza­tion of early child­hood as a global issue. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude world so­ci­ety stud­ies, glob­al­i­sa­tion, child­hood, semi­otics, vi­sual so­ci­ol­ogy, and em­bod­ied so­ci­ol­ogy. Cur­rent pub­li­ca­tions are "The cul­tural con­struc­tion of Global So­cial Pol­icy. The­o­riz­ing For­ma­tions and Trans­for­ma­tions", Global So­cial Pol­icy 13 (1) 2013, 24-44; "Uni­ver­sal­iz­ing Early Child­hood: His­tory, Forms and Log­ics" in Twum-​Danso Imoh, A. and Ame, R. (eds.), Child­hoods at the In­ter­sec­tion of the Local and the Global, Pal­grave, 2012, 34-55; "Un­gle­iche Kind­heiten aus glob­aler­Per­spek­tive.In­ter­na­tionale In­dika­toren und die Kon­struk­tion von Kind­heit" (Un­equal child­hoods from a global per­spec­tive. In­ter­na­tional in­di­ca­tors and the con­struc­tion of child­hood), Diskurs Kindheits-​ und Ju­gend­forschung 4 2009, 471-​486.

(Dr. rer. pol.) is a post-​doctoral re­searcher within the BMBF-​funded project “The Amer­i­cas as Space of En­tan­gle­ments” at the Cen­ter for In­ter­Amer­i­can Stud­ies at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search in­ter­ests are the­o­ries of de­vel­op­ment, so­cial move­ments, en­vi­ron­men­tal and health pol­icy and gen­der re­la­tions with a strong focus on Latin Amer­ica. She has done field re­search in Ar­gentina, El Sal­vador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Her re­cent pub­li­ca­tions are: Fi­nan­cial­i­sa­tion of Food, Land, and Na­ture. Spe­cial Issue of the Aus­trian Jour­nal of De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies, Vol. XXX 2-​2014, spe­cial issue co-​editor to­gether with Jenny Simon (2014); Geschlechter­regime und Sozialpoli­tik in Ar­gen­tinien und Bo­livien, in: Tu­ider, Elis­a­beth/ Bur­chardt, Hans-​Jürgen/ Öhlschläger, Rainer (Hrsg.): Frauen (und) Macht in Lateinamerika, Baden-​Baden: Nomos Ver­lag (2013); Gesund­heit­spoli­tik in Lateinamerika. Kon­flikte um Pri­vatisierun­gen in Ar­gen­tinien und El Sal­vador, Baden-​Baden: Nomos Ver­lag (2012).

is a re­search as­so­ciate in the DFG re­search project "A The­ory of World En­ti­ties" at the fac­ulty of so­ci­ol­ogy of Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her dis­ser­ta­tion project at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) ex­plores the role of inter-​organizational co­op­er­a­tion for the Arc­tic Coun­cil and the ad­vance­ment of sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment in the Arc­tic. She re­ceived her Bach­e­lor's de­gree in "In­te­grated Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies" at the Uni­ver­sity of Bre­men and her Mas­ter's de­gree in "Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence: De­mo­c­ra­tic Gov­er­nance and Civil So­ci­ety" at the Os­nabrück Uni­ver­sity. Her main re­search in­ter­ests in­clude in­ter­na­tional pol­i­tics and in­ter­na­tional or­ga­ni­za­tions, es­pe­cially the Arc­tic Coun­cil and the G7/G20, and sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

is a Doc­toral Re­searcher with the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. En­ti­tled "Con­flicts in World So­ci­ety", his dis­ser­ta­tion re­con­structs inter-​struggle re­la­tions as a di­men­sion of the his­tor­i­cal emer­gence of world so­ci­ety. His re­search in­ter­ests lie at the in­ter­sec­tion of so­ci­o­log­i­cal the­ory, world so­ci­ety the­ory, and his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy. Oday re­ceived his B.A. from Lud­wig Max­i­m­il­ian Uni­ver­sity of Mu­nich and an M.A. from the Free Uni­ver­sity of Berlin. Dur­ing his stud­ies, he worked as a stu­dent as­sis­tant with the Chair of In­ter­na­tional Pol­i­tics and Con­flict Stud­ies at Bun­deswehr Uni­ver­sity Mu­nich, where he served as a mem­ber of the ed­i­to­r­ial team of the Zeitschrift für In­ter­na­tionale Beziehun­gen (ZIB), as well as the Col­lab­o­ra­tive Re­search Cen­ter (SFB) 700 "Gov­er­nance in Areas of Lim­ited State­hood" at the Free Uni­ver­sity of Berlin.

is Pro­fes­sor for Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity and Di­rec­tor of the Cen­tre for Ger­man and Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies (CGES) at Bielfeld Uni­ver­sity and Saint Pe­ters­burg State Uni­ver­sity. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions (IR) and Eu­ro­pean Stud­ies as well as In­ter­na­tional Po­lit­i­cal The­ory (IPT), Europe-​Asia Re­la­tions, Com­par­a­tive Re­gion­al­iza­tion in World So­ci­ety, intern-​ and tran­scul­tural re­la­tions and bor­ders, bound­aries and lim­its in World So­ci­ety.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2019): Se­cu­rity in the sovereignty-​governmentality con­tin­uum. Cam­bridge Re­view of In­ter­na­tional Af­fairs (CRIA) 32(6), 681-​711.
• (2019): Glob­al­isierung und Ent­frem­dung: Ein kurzer Essay. Psy­cho­an­a­lytis­che Fam­i­lien­ther­a­pie: Zeitschrift für Paar-, Familien-​ und Sozialther­a­pie 20(II), 11-22.
• (2019): Fix­ing Mis­sions. Überlegun­gen zu einem Typus des demokratis­chen Krieges zwis­chen lib­eralem In­ter­ven­tion­is­mus und demokratis­cher Im­pe­ri­alität. In: Hausteiner E. M., Huhn­holz S., (eds.): Im­pe­rien ver­ste­hen: The­o­rien, Typen, Trans­for­ma­tio­nen. Ord­nun­gen glob­aler Macht. Vol 1. Baden-​Baden: Nomos, 129-​168.
• (with Her­rmann, G., 2017): De­mo­c­ra­tic War and Lib­eral Vi­o­lence: On End­ing the "Silent Treat­ment" Be­tween De­mo­c­ra­tic War Re­search and Gov­ern­men­tal­ity Stud­ies. In: Neuhäuser, C., Schuck, C. (eds.): Mil­i­tary In­ter­ven­tions: Con­sid­er­a­tions from Phi­los­o­phy and Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence. Baden-​Baden: Nomos, 239-​261.

is a his­to­rian and Doc­toral Re­searcher in the Re­search Train­ing Group "World Pol­i­tics" who is re­search­ing the con­struc­tion and or­ga­ni­za­tion of In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions in Hispanic-​America in the first half of the nine­teenth cen­tury. The title of her Doc­toral project is "The Cre­ation of Amer­i­can Re­gional In­te­gra­tion and the Orig­i­na­tion of the Inter-​American Sys­tem after In­de­pen­dence. The Con­gress of Panama (1826) and the Amer­i­can Con­gress of Lima (1847)".

Uni­ver­sity of Mel­bourne, Aus­tralia. She has held vis­it­ing po­si­tions at Har­vard, MIT, Uni­ver­sity of Am­s­ter­dam, Uni­ver­sity of Vi­enna and Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics. Her field of in­ter­est are glob­al­ized spheres of po­lit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the in­flu­ence on so­ci­eties. She has pub­lished widely in this area. Among her re­cent pub­li­ca­tions: "The Hand­book of Global Media Re­search" (Wiley Black­well, 2012) and the mono­graph "The Global Pub­lic Sphere" (Polity, Cam­bridge, 2014).

Zhen­wei Wang is a doc­toral stu­dent in So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her re­search in­ter­ests in­clude mi­gra­tion, doing fam­ily, care and new media. In the dis­ser­ta­tion project she in­ves­ti­gates the dis­tant care­giv­ing and fam­ily mak­ing process in translo­cal fam­i­lies in China from the per­spec­tive of gen­der and class. She fin­ished the 10-​month multi-​sited field­work in East­ern China in 2021 and is now draft­ing the the­sis. Zhen­wei holds Mas­ter’s de­gree (M.A.) in So­ci­ol­ogy from The Chi­nese Uni­ver­sity of Hong Kong and from Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity.

Dorothea Wehrmann is a re­searcher at the Ger­man De­vel­ope­ment In­sti­tute/Deutsches In­sti­tut für En­twick­lungspoli­tik (DIE). She holds a doc­toral de­gree in Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence and stud­ied So­cial Sci­ences, Po­lit­i­cal Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and In­ter­Amer­i­can Stud­ies. Her re­search areas in­clue in­ter­na­tional and transna­tional co­op­er­a­tion in net­works, pri­vate sec­tor en­gage­ment in de­vel­op­ment co­op­er­a­tion, and the pol­i­tics of the Polar Re­gions.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (with Pe­tersen, Mirko, 2020): Geopol­i­tics, in: Kalt­meier, Olaf, Anne Tit­tor, Daniel Hawkins, and Eleonora Roh­land (e ds.): The Rout­ledge hand­book to the po­lit­i­cal econ­omy and gov­er­nance of the Amer­i­cas, Lon­don: Rout­ledge, 362-​370.
• (2018): Crit­i­cal geopol­i­tics of the polar re­gions: an inter-​american per­spec­tive, Abing­don; New York: Rout­ledge.
• (2018): In­cen­tivis­ing and reg­u­lat­ing multi-​actor part­ner­ships and private-​sector en­gage­ment in de­vel­op­ment co­op­er­a­tion, (Dis­cus­sion Paper 21/2018).
• (with Al­bert, Math­ias, 2017): Zwis­chen Ko­op­er­a­tion und Kon­flikt, zwis­chen Zen­tralität und Mar­gin­alität: die Ark­tis im Spiegel poli­tik­wis­senschaftlicher Forschung, in: Schriften­reihe Geoin­for­ma­tions­di­enst der Bun­deswehr/Jahresheft Geopoli­tik (2), 15-24.
• (2017): Non-​State ac­tors in Arc­tic Coun­cil gov­er­nance, in: Keil, Kathrin and Se­bas­t­ian Knecht (eds.), Gov­ern­ing arc­tic change: global per­spec­tives, Bas­ingstoke: Pal­grave MacMil­lan, 187-​206.

has been work­ing on global so­cial pol­icy and so­cial pro­tec­tion in the global South for sev­eral years. In order to con­tribute new knowl­edge to the global per­spec­tive on so­cial pol­icy, she has lately ded­i­cated her major re­search to an ex­ten­sive and sys­tem­at­i­cal analy­sis of the na­tional arrange­ments of so­cial as­sis­tance. She is a mem­ber of the FLOOR re­search project on so­cial cash trans­fers, which is part of the in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary FLOOR re­search group on so­cial se­cu­rity as a human right. In co­op­er­a­tion with two team col­leagues she has pro­duced the cur­rently most com­pre­hen­sive data base on so­cial as­sis­tance in cash in the coun­tries of the global South. By se­lec­tive in­sights in na­tional cases, such as a study in South Africa, she has learned a lot about dif­fer­ent views on so­cial pro­tec­tion in dif­fer­ent con­texts.

Ka­trin Weible grad­u­ated from the Uni­ver­sity of Hei­del­berg, Ger­many, with a Mas­ter´s de­gree in So­ci­ol­ogy, Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, and Pub­lic In­ter­na­tional Law. She is cur­rently writ­ing her PhD the­sis. Until early 2014, she is a vis­it­ing re­search fel­low at the Brooks World Poverty In­sti­tute at the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter, UK. Doc­toral Dis­ser­ta­tion: So­cial Pro­tec­tion in the Global South. Data con­struc­tion, con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion, and in­sti­tu­tional analy­sis of So­cial Cash Trans­fers.

is pro­fes­sor of mod­ern his­tory at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Fields of re­search: Transna­tional and com­par­a­tive his­tory (19th-​20th cen­turies), with spe­cial focus on: Trans­for­ma­tion of the state (se­cu­rity, polic­ing, ter­ror­ism); urban vi­o­lence (ju­ve­nile delin­quency, drug con­sump­tion); labour (so­cial move­ments, col­lec­tive ac­tion, protest).

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions:

• (2017): Spa­tial­ized Com­mu­ni­ca­tion: Fu­ture Re­search Per­spec­tives on Urban Youth Vi­o­lence and on Ter­ror­ism, in: Crime, His­tory and So­ci­eties 21 (2), 309-​319.
• (2017): World War I and Urban So­ci­eties: So­cial move­ments, fears, and spa­tial order in Ham­burg and Chicago (c. 1916-​23), in: Rinke, Ste­fan and Michael Wildt (eds.): Rev­o­lu­tions and Counter-​Revolutions: 1917 and its af­ter­math from a global per­spec­tive, Frank­furt/New York, 287-​306.
• (co-​editor, 2015): Ger­many 1916-​23. A Rev­o­lu­tion in Con­text, Biele­feld.
• (with Sylvia Schraut, 2014): Ter­ror­ism, Gen­der and His­tory. Spe­cial issue: His­tor­i­cal So­cial Re­search 3/2014.

was pro­fes­sor for the his­tory of mod­ern so­ci­eties at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity and di­rec­tor of the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy. His re­search in­ter­ests in­cluded the his­tory of cap­i­tal­ism and moder­nity, the his­tory of so­cial move­ments, the his­tory of work and work­ers, media his­tory, and the­o­ret­i­cal and method­olog­i­cal is­sues in his­to­ri­og­ra­phy.

is doing her PhD in the area of Global His­tory on Ger­man colo­nial­ism with a spe­cial focus on the in­ter­sec­tions of en­vi­ron­men­tal his­tory, knowl­edge trans­fers, and racism. She com­pleted her Mas­ter's at the In­sti­tute for Mi­gra­tion Re­search and In­ter­cul­tural Stud­ies (IMIS) at Os­nabrück Uni­ver­sity and worked as a man­ager at the In­sti­tute for World So­ci­ety at the fac­ulty of so­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. From March 2024, she will be work­ing in the Prorec­torate for Sci­ence and So­ci­ety in the areas of di­ver­sity and sus­tain­abil­ity and in the Sus­tain­abil­ity Of­fice at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity. Her spe­cial re­search in­ter­ests lie in the con­cept of In­ter­sec­tion­al­ity, Post Colo­nial Stud­ies, Gen­der Stud­ies, and Mi­gra­tion Stud­ies.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tion:

• (2024): Frauen im deutschen Kolo­nial­is­mus. Aushand­lung­sprozesse der Deutschen Kolo­nialge­sellschaft und des Frauen­bun­des im kolo­nialen Migrations-​ und Gen­der­regime. IMIS Work­ing Paper 18, In­sti­tut für Mi­gra­tions­forschung und In­terkul­turelle Stu­dien (IMIS) der Uni­ver­sität Os­nabrück. Os­nabrück: IMIS.

stud­ied So­cial Sci­ences and His­tory (BA), and So­ci­ol­ogy (MA). He is now re­search­ing the his­tory of uni­ver­sity rank­ings in the DFG-​funded project "Zur In­sti­tu­tion­al­isierung der Rank­ings. Diskurskar­ri­eren tabel­lar­ischer Leis­tungsver­gle­iche 1850-​1980" at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity.

Re­cent pub­li­ca­tion:

• Gren­zarbeit im Kun­st­be­trieb. Zur In­sti­tu­tion­al­isierung des Rank­ings Kun­stkom­pass, in: Ringel, Leopold und To­bias Wer­ron (Hg.): Rank­ings - Sozi­ol­o­gis­che Fall­stu­dien. Wies­baden: VS (forth­com­ing).

grad­u­ated from Gold­smiths, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don in 2018 and her PhD was in so­cial an­thro­pol­ogy. It con­cerned se­lec­tive ver­sions of her­itage and how these in­form na­tional iden­tity and po­lit­i­cal le­git­i­macy and was re­searched through 15 months ethno­graphic field­work in Luang Pra­bang in North­ern Laos. This city was the for­mer royal cap­i­tal (until the es­tab­lish­ment of Laos as a one party state in 1975) and is gen­er­ally recog­nised as the cen­tre of Lao cul­ture, yet is a place with a very tur­bu­lent and con­tested his­tory. Phill is now writ­ing a mono­graph based on her the­sis, which is forth­com­ing with Am­s­ter­dam Uni­ver­sity Press.

More re­cently, Phill is in­ter­ested in the grow­ing pres­ence of China in Laos and is now re­search­ing a project on the first rail­way sys­tem in Laos, which is to be a high speed rail net­work. The project uses this as a tool through which to ex­am­ine how China is per­ceived, un­der­stood and ne­go­ti­ated in Laos. Phill has just re­turned from a long pe­riod of field­work and will re­turn for a fol­low up visit in 2020.

was ed­u­cated at the Uni­ver­sity of Zurich, from where he re­ceived a PhD in so­cial an­thro­pol­ogy in 1992 and a ha­bil­i­ta­tion two years later. He joined Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity in 2012 as the Hughes-​Rogers Pro­fes­sor of So­ci­ol­ogy and a Fac­ulty As­so­ciate in Pol­i­tics. From 2014 on­ward he will di­rect Prince­ton's Fung Global Fel­lows Pro­gram. His re­search aims to un­der­stand the dy­nam­ics of nation-​state for­ma­tion, eth­nic bound­ary mak­ing and po­lit­i­cal con­flict from a com­par­a­tive per­spec­tive. He has pur­sued these themes across the dis­ci­pli­nary fields of so­ci­ol­ogy, po­lit­i­cal sci­ence, and so­cial an­thro­pol­ogy and am­a­teured in var­i­ous method­olog­i­cal and an­a­lyt­i­cal strate­gies: field re­search in Oax­aca (Mex­ico) and Iraq, com­par­a­tive his­tor­i­cal analy­sis, quan­ti­ta­tive cross-​national re­search, net­work stud­ies, for­mal mod­el­ing, the analy­sis of large-​scale sur­vey data, as well as pol­icy ori­ented re­search.

is pro­fes­sor of so­ci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Biele­feld and Se­nior Re­search As­so­ciate at St. Ed­mund's Col­lege/Uni­ver­sity of Cam­bridge. Her re­search fo­cuses on the in­ter­sec­tion of gen­der and so­ci­ol­ogy of re­li­gion with a par­tic­u­lar in­ter­est in (tran­scul­tural) knowl­edge pro­duc­tion and the shift­ing of sym­bolic or­ders. The re­gional em­pha­sis of her stud­ies is on se­lected coun­tries in the Mashriq; this in­cludes an en­tan­gled, shared so­cial his­to­ries per­spec­tive shaped by post­colo­nial ap­proaches. Re­cent pub­li­ca­tions are: Global his­tor­i­cal so­ci­ol­ogy and con­nected gen­der so­ci­olo­gies. On the colo­nial legacy and (re)na­tion­al­iza­tion of gen­der, in: In­ter­dis­ci­plines. Jour­nal of His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy 9 (2) 2018, 95-​142. Mul­ti­ple re­li­giosi­ties, en­tan­gled moder­ni­ties and gen­der: what is dif­fer­ent about gen­der across re­li­gious cul­tures? in: Zeitschrift für Re­li­gion, Gesellschaft und Poli­tik 1 (1) 2018, 89-​109 and Re­li­gion, Ori­en­tal­ism and the Colo­nial Body of Gen­der Knowl­edge, in: Re­li­gion in Con­text. Hand­book, ed. by H. Winkel to­gether with A. Schn­abel and M. Red­dig. Baden-​ Baden: Nomos.

is Deputy Di­rec­tor of the Peace In­sti­tute Frank­furt am Main (PRIF) and Pro­fes­sor of In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions at the Fac­ulty of So­cial Sci­ences and His­tory at the Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität Darm­stadt. His re­search in­ter­ests in­clude the role of non-​state ac­tors in global gov­er­nance, in par­tic­u­lar their con­tri­bu­tions to just peace gov­er­nance. He is co-​author of "The Role of Busi­ness in Global Gov­er­nance” (with An­negret Flohr et al., Pal­grave MacMil­lan, 2010) and has co-​edited sev­eral books re­lated to transna­tional gov­er­nance processes, inter alia, "The Transna­tional Gov­er­nance of Vi­o­lence and Crime: Non State Ac­tors in Se­cu­rity (with Anja P. Jakobi, Pal­grave MacMil­lan, 2013) and “Cor­po­rate Se­cu­rity Re­spon­si­bil­ity? Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Con­tri­bu­tions to Peace and Se­cu­rity in Zones of Con­flict” (with Nicole Deit­el­hoff, Pal­grave MacMil­lan, 2010). He is prin­ci­pal in­ves­ti­ga­tor in the Clus­ter of Ex­cel­lence “Nor­ma­tive Or­ders” and Speaker of the Leib­niz Re­search Al­liance on “Crises in a Glob­alised World”.

is re­searcher of so­ci­ol­ogy of work, em­ploy­ment and Chi­nese so­ci­ol­ogy. His cur­rent re­search fo­cuses on the ca­reers of Chi­nese pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in Chi­nese sub­sidiaries of German-​based multi­na­tional com­pa­nies. In his PHD-​Project “The Chi­nese White Col­lar Man­agers in For­eign In­vested En­ter­prises and Their ca­reers”, firstly, he ex­plore the dis­crep­ancy be­tween the ca­reer ex­pec­ta­tions of the Chi­nese pro­fes­sion­als and prac­tices of human re­source man­age­ment in MNCs. The main rea­son for this dis­crep­ancy is the dif­fer­ence of time hori­zon of ex­pec­ta­tions/ori­en­ta­tions. Sec­ondly, the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Chi­nese pro­fes­sion­als with their MNC em­ploy­ers varies in dif­fer­ent ca­reer ori­en­ta­tions. Par­tic­u­larly, the in­creas­ing ca­reer ra­tio­nal­iza­tion of Chi­nese pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in MNCs ac­cel­er­ates the de­mythol­o­giza­tion of MNCs in China.

Junchen Yan is re­search as­sis­tant in the DFG-​project: “Ex­pa­tri­ate Man­agers: A New Cos­mopoli­tan Elite? Habi­tus, Every­day Prac­tices, and Net­works” and in the HBS-​project: “Going Global” or “Short-​Term Ad­ven­tures”? The Con­di­tions and Con­se­quences of the Glob­al­iza­tion of Small and Medium-​Sized En­ter­prises.

pur­sued a MA (Mas­ter of Arts) De­gree in Gov­er­nance and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies with spe­cial­iza­tion in De­vel­op­ment Man­age­ment from Jimma Uni­ver­sity, Ethiopia. Abel earned his BA (Bach­e­lor of Arts) De­gree in Gov­er­nance and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies from Hawassa Uni­ver­sity, Ethiopia. He worked as a lec­turer (From Oct. 2015- July 2018) at the De­part­ment of Gov­er­nance and De­vel­op­ment stud­ies in Wolkite Uni­ver­sity, Ethiopia. He briefly worked as lec­turer at the de­part­ment of Civics and Eth­i­cal Stud­ies in Wachemo Uni­ver­sity, Ethiopia from Aug. 2018- March 2019. Cur­rently he is a doc­toral stu­dent at the Biele­feld Grad­u­ate School in His­tory and So­ci­ol­ogy (BGHS) at the Fac­ulty of So­ci­ol­ogy at Biele­feld Uni­ver­sity, Ger­many. His doc­toral dis­ser­ta­tion project fo­cuses on the as­so­ci­a­tion be­tween Mi­gra­tion, Re­mit­tances and Rural Liveli­hood.

Re­search in­ter­ests: Mi­gra­tion, Gov­er­nance and De­vel­op­ment