Prof Dr Karin Schittenhelm

Speaker

Principal Investigator (TP4)

Professor of Sociology

Karin Schittenhelm is professor of sociology at the University of Siegen, speaker of the Research Unit during the first funding period and principal investigator of subproject 4 on ‘Asylum Regimes and Transnational Refugee Families in Germany and France’. She obtained her PhD from the Free University of Berlin based on a thesis which explored public art and the remembrance of Germany’s Nazi past. In her postdoctoral research, she explored the school-to-work transition of young women with a particular focus on gender, class, and migration and completed her habilitation at Humboldt University Berlin. Her research interests include migration and asylum research, gender, education, and life course research. Karin Schittenhelm was one of the leaders of an international research group on the topic of ‘Cultural Capital During Migration’ (with a focus on Canada and European immigration societies) and a member of the DFG Research Unit ‘Horizontal Europeanization’. She previously held the Chaire Alfred Grosser, Sciences Po, France and was a visiting scholar, among others, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen.

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Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2

University of Siegen

D-57068 Siegen

Phone: +49 (0)271-740 3425 (Secretary)

Email: karin.schittenhelm@uni-siegen.de

Homepage: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/schittenhelm/index.html.en?lang=en

Prof Dr Katharina Inhetveen

Deputy Speaker

Principal Investigator (TP1)
Professor of Sociology

Katharina Inhetveen is heading the subproject “Mobility and Institutions of Intermediary Rule in Southern Africa” together with Mario Krämer. Since 2014, she holds the chair for General Sociology at the University of Siegen, Germany. Before that, she was professor for political sociology of the non-OECD world at the UniBw Munich and professor for sociology with a focus on qualitative empirical methods at the LMU Munich. Her postdoc research focused on the political order of refugee camps located in southern Africa; in her doctoral dissertation, she researched institutional innovation in the case of gender quotas in German and Norwegian political parties. Other longstanding fields of interest are the sociology of violence and music sociology. Katharina Inhetveen is the deputy speaker of the research unit. She is also the PI of two other current research projects, the DFG research project “Torture and Body Knowledge” (2018-2022) and the sub-project “African Music and Politics: Negotiations of Violence in South African Popular Music” within the DFG CRC “Transformations of the Popular”.

Dr Dominik Schieder

Scientific Coordinator

Researcher

Dominik Schieder is the research unit’s scientific coordinator and research associate in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Siegen. He holds a Ph.D. in social and cultural anthropology from the University of Bayreuth. Before coming to Siegen, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt, as well as a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in the anthropology of Fiji and Fiji Islander diaspora. His interests include transnational mobility and migration, social institutions (such as the family and kinship), politics and sport. He has conducted field and archival research in Fiji, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, and Australia.

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Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2

University of Siegen

D-57068 Siegen

Phone: +49 (0)271-740 2527

Email: dominik.schieder@uni-siegen.de

Homepage: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/schieder_dominik/index.html.en?lang=en

Dr Tetiana Havlin

Researcher (Coordination Team)

Tetiana Havlin is a sociologist and research associate in the DFG Research Unit ‘Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics’. As part of the coordination team, she focuses on issues and organizational matters pertaining to diversity and gender equality measures, as well as international cooperation. She obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degrees in sociology from Odessa National University and a PhD in sociology from Kharkov National University, Ukraine. Her thesis Gender roles as a symbolical system of socio-cultural development explored the transformation of gender roles with a specific focus on work-life balance and gender mainstreaming in Ukraine and Germany. Currently, she prepares her postdoctoral thesis in the field of post-Soviet and migration studies at the University of Siegen. Her research and writing are devoted to migration and transnationalism, the family, gender and intersectionality, research methodology, and protest and social movements.

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Adolf-Reichwein-Str. 2

D-57068 Siegen

Phone: +49 (0)271-740

Email: havlin@soziologie.uni-siegen.de

Homepage: : https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/sozialwissenschaften/soziologie/mitarbeiter/havlin/index.html.en?lang=en