Marianne Braig

Marianne Braig (* 1953 ) is a German political scientist and university professor at the Latin America Institute (LAI) at the Free University of Berlin .

Career

Braig studied economics and sociology at the Free University of Berlin from 1972 to 1977 . After graduating from 1977 to 1978 she studied political science, anthropology and history at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . From 1978 to 1983 she worked as a research assistant in the Sociology Department at the Free University of Berlin. From 1983 to 1984 she did research as a Junior Fellow at El Colegio de México and at Colegio de Jalisco in Mexico . From 1984 to 1988 she carried out research with the support of the DFG as a research assistant in the project “Labor Market and Gender in Mexico and Nigeria” at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin. From 1988 to 1997 she taught as a university lecturer at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin. In 1989 she received her doctorate in sociology with summa cum laude at the Free University of Berlin.

In 1997 she moved to the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where she taught as a university lecturer in political science at the Institute for Comparative Political Science and International Relations in the Faculty of Social Sciences until 2002. In 1999 she qualified as a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Berlin and was followed in 2002 a call to a C4 professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin with a focus on policy in Latin America. In 2009 and 2013 to 2014 she taught as a visiting professor at El Colegio de México.

Braig's research focuses on the investigation of political culture, the state and statehood, as well as transregional and global interrelationships and inequalities in different countries in Latin America.

Braig has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 2008 and a member of the Excellence Council of the Free University of Berlin since 2009.

Awards

2013: Margherita von Brentano Prize for the joint project MISEAL ("Medidas para la inclusión social y equidad en Instituciones de Educación Superior en América Latina")

Publications

with Narda Henriquez, Gerardo Damonte, Barbara Göbel: Desigualdades en un mundo globalizado . Lima: CISEPA, 2015, 236 pp. ISBN 978-6-124-57328-6
with Carlos Alba, Stefan Rinke: Latin America and Asia - Relations in the Context of Globalization from Colonial Times to the Present , HISTORAMERICANA, Volume 24, Stuttgart: Hans-Dieter Heinz Akademischer Verlag, 2014, 262 pp. ISBN 978-3-88099 -693-9
with Barbara Göbel: Globalización de la naturaleza y ciudadanía: resistencias, conflictos y negociaciones . Dossier Revista Iberoamericana, Vol. XIII, 49, 2013, pp. 87–162
with Carlos Alba, Stefan Rinke, Guillermo Zermeño: Entre Espacios. Movimientos, actores y representaciones de la globalización . Entre Espacios series, Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2013, 244 pp. ISBN 978-3-938-94469-1
with Sérgio Costa, Stefanie Kron: Democracia y configuraciones contemporáneas del derecho en América Latina, Publicaciones del Instituto Ibero-Americano Fundación Patrimonio Cultural Prusiano Vol. 149, Madrid: Iberoamericana / Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2012, 436 pp. ISBN 978-3 -86527-761-9
with Anne Huffschmid: Los poderes de lo público: debates, espacios y actores en América Latina . Madrid: Iberoamericana / Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2009, 425 pp. ISBN 978-3-86527-494-6
with Peter Birle, Ottmar Ette, Dieter Ingenschay: Hemispherical Constructions of the Americas , Madrid: Series Biblioteca Iberoamericana, Vol. 109 / Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2006, 168 pp. ISBN 978-3-865-27283-6
with Ottmar Ette, Dieter Ingenschay and Günther Maihold: Limits of Power - Power of Limits. Latin America in a global context . Madrid: Biblioteca Ibero-Americana series, Vol. 105, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2005, 239 pp. ISBN 978-3-86527-246-1
with Walter L. Bernecker, Karl Hölz, Klaus Zimmermann: Mexico today. Politics economy culture . Biblioteca Ibero-Americana series, 98, Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert, 2004, 826 pp. ISBN 978-3-865-27140-2
with Sonja Wölte: Common Ground or Mutual Exclusion? Women's Movements in International Relation . London / New York: Zed Books Ltd, 2003, 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-842-77158-7
Democratization of the state, civil rights and women's movement . Documentation of the conference: “Democratization of the State, Civil Rights and Women's Movements” at the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and Research on Gender Relations at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: July 12-13, 2001, Frankfurt / Main, 2001.
State and market in the development process . Series of writings from the German Overseas Institute Hamburg, 48, Hamburg: GIGA, 2000, 173 pp. ISBN 978-3-926-95348-3
with Ute Gerhard: Women's rights as human rights . Documentation of a conference of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women's Studies and Research on Gender Relations at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 1999
Mexico - another way to modernity. Female gainful employment, domestic services and organization of everyday life . Cologne: Böhlau, 1992, 321 pp. ISBN 978-3-412-06791-5

Web links

Website of Marianne Braig at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin
Literature by and about Marianne Braig in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Margherita von Brentano Prize 2013 goes to a project for the inclusion of disadvantaged groups at universities in Latin America . In: FU Berlin . 19th June 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Braig, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sociologist, filmmaker, publisher and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	1953

[1] Margherita von Brentano Prize 2013 goes to a project for the inclusion of disadvantaged groups at universities in Latin America . In: FU Berlin . 19th June 2013.