Antonia copper
Antonia Kupfer is a German sociologist with a research focus on globalization and the change in work and education , low-wage workers from a comparative perspective and the relationship between power and education . She has been a professor at the TU Dresden since 2014 .
Life
After studying sociology at the Free University of Berlin , between 1997 and 1999, Kupfer worked as a research assistant for the Equal Opportunities Commissioner at the University of Potsdam . From 1999 to 2003 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation (doctorate at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ) and in 2004 she was a research assistant at the University Research Institute of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .
This was followed by a position as a research assistant in the Department of Sociological Theory and Social Analysis of the Institute for Sociology at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (2004–2010), the post as a Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellow at the Weatherhead Center of Harvard University (2010–2011) and Senior Lecturer in the Academic Unit of Education at the University of Southampton .
In October 2014, Antonia Kupfer accepted the professorship for Macrosociology at the Institute for Sociology at the Technical University of Dresden.
Award
- 2010: Science Award of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor for the Habilitation "Education and Social Inequality"
Works (selection)
- University and Social Justice. A balance sheet of the university reforms since 1998 , Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus, 2004, ISBN 3-593-37602-4 .
- PhD students in the USA. An analysis against the background of the Bologna Process , Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-8350-6078-4 .
- Sociology of education . Theories, institutions, debates , Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17535-5 .
- Educational Upward Mobility. Practices of Social Changes : Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2015, ISBN 978-1-137-35530-0 .
Web links
- Literature by Antonia Kupfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Antonia Kupfer on the website of the Technical University of Dresden
- Antonia Kupfer on the website of Campus Verlag
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| SURNAME | Copper, Antonia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist; Professor at the TU Dresden |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |