Prof Dr Karin Schittenhelm

Spokesperson

Principal Investigator (TP5)

Professor a.D. of Sociology, Senior Researcher

 

Karin Schittenhelm is senior researcher at the University of Siegen, spokesperson of the Research Unit and principal investigator of subproject 5 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 Spokesperson

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 spokesperson 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

PD Dr Tetiana Havlin

Associated Researcher

 

Tetiana Havlin has been a Visiting Professor for Intersectionality and Transnational Mobility and the Chair of Intercultural Studies at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg since April 2025. From September 2022 to March 2025, she was as a research associate in the Research Unit 5183. During this period, she completed her habilitation project, The Dynamics of Immigrant Agency – A Transnational Perspective on East-West European Migration, which will be published as a book by Palgrave, at the University of Siegen. Her research and publications focus on migration and transnationalism, entrepreneurship, gender and intersectionality, research methodology, as well as multilingualism. She obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degrees in sociology from Odesa National University and a PhD in sociology from Kharkov National University.

 

Erich-Weinert-Straße 1

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

D-03046 Cottbus

 

Phone: +49 (0)355 69 2552

Email: havlin@b-tu.de

Homepage: : https://www.b-tu.de/en/fg-interkulturalitaet/team-1/head-of-department-1