Hildegard Maria Nickel

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Hildegard Maria Nickel (born September 17, 1948 in Berlin ) is a German sociologist .

Hildegard Nickel studied cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1968 to 1972 and received her diploma there in 1973. From 1972 to 1976 she was a research student in sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she also lectured and received her doctorate in 1977. phil. From 1977 she worked for ten years as a research assistant in the Sociology of Education Department at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR , received her teaching qualification ( Facultas docendi ) in 1985 for the field of educational sociology and received her doctorate in 1986. sc. phil.

In 1987 she became a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where she was dean of the Department of Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1990 to 1993 . In 1992 she became a C3 professor at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Faculty of Social Sciences, for the field of sociology of family, youth and gender relations, today the field of sociology of work and gender relations.

Her main areas of work are the sociology of work , sociology of the service society and sociology of gender relations .

She has held numerous visiting professorships abroad: at the University of Toronto in Canada (1995), at Indiana University in the USA (1996), at Duke University in the USA (1997), in Seoul , Korea (1999), at the University of Wolverhampton in England (2001), and she was a guest at the Goethe Institutes in Karachi and Pakistan (2007) and in Uzbekistan (2008).

In 1994, Nickel was the first recipient of the Helge Pross Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of family and gender research .

Offices

Hildegard Nickel held the following offices in the course of her career:

  • 1990–2011 co-editor of the Berlin Journal for Sociology
  • 1993–2002 director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women's Studies at the Humboldt University
  • 1996–2000 member of the council of the German Society for Sociology
  • 1996–2003 consultant for empirical social research and member of the review board of the German Research Foundation
  • 1999–2002 spokesperson for the Section of Women's Studies of the German Society for Sociology
  • 2000–2011 spokeswoman for afg (Working Group on Women and Gender Studies in Berlin Universities)
  • 2001–2005 member of the supervisory board of the Feminist Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
  • 2002 (February to August) State Secretary for Economic Affairs, Labor and Women at the Berlin Senate
  • 2002–2010 Deputy Spokesperson for the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 2003–2004 director of the Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin
  • 2004–2006 member of the Senate of the German Research Foundation

She has announced that she will work in the Sociology of Work and Gender Relations department up to and including the winter semester 2014/15.

literature

  • Women's research and mother politics. in: Gerda Szepansky : The silent emancipation. Women in the GDR. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12075-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m Curriculum vitae. Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, accessed on November 11, 2013 (English).
  2. Prize winners. (No longer available online.) Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, archived from the original on November 11, 2013 ; Retrieved November 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.uni-siegen.de
  3. Curriculum vitae – hrsg = Institute for Social Sciences ( Memento of July 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Humboldt University of Berlin (English)
  4. Prof. Dr. sc. phil. Hildegard Maria Nickel. Institute for Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin, accessed on November 11, 2013 .