Theresa Wobbe
Theresa Wobbe (born February 22, 1952 in Borken ) is a German historian and sociologist .
Educational biography
Theresa Wobbe studied psychology , history , German literature and philosophy at the Technical University and Free University of Berlin from 1971 to 1977 . She completed her studies with the state examination for the higher teaching post at grammar schools in the subjects of German and history at the Free University of Berlin.
From 1985 to 1990 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Free University of Berlin, where she also worked on the subject of “Equality and Difference. Political strategies of women's rights activists at the turn of the century ” . Initially from 1990 to 1991 a research assistant at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , she returned as a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the FU. In 1996 Wobbe completed her habilitation ( venia legendi "Sociology") at the Free University of Berlin. Her post-doctoral thesis was published in 1997 under the title Elective Affinities, alluding to Goethe's novel The Elective Affinities. Sociology and women on the way to science .
Teaching
In 1996, Theresa Wobbe taught sociology and history as part of a DAAD professorship at Duke University in Durham , (USA). In the same year she was also a visiting professor for sociology at the University of Bern . From 1998 to 2000 she worked as a research assistant at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . There she coordinated the project Women in Academy and Science 1700–2000 . From 1999 to 2000 she was professor for general sociology at the Technical University of Berlin. In 2000 Wobbe received a call from the University of Erfurt . There she held a C 4 professorship in sociology with a focus on gender sociology at the political science faculty until 2009 . In addition, she was a guest lecturer at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna in 2000 . Theresa Wobbe has been Professor of Gender Sociology at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Potsdam since 2009 . Wobbe is on the board of the Potsdam Center for Politics and Management, which is affiliated with the university .
Research projects
Theresa Wobbe took part in various projects on the topic of women in politics and science. In addition, in 1999 she carried out a self-financed project on the subject of global society . Since her professorship at the University of Erfurt, she has worked in various projects for the Thuringian state government , such as from 2001 to 2002 on women in the Thuringian state parliament and from 2003 to 2005 in a cooperation project on gender politics, each financed by the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture . On behalf of the Thuringian State accompanied reporting the Thuringian State Government after the Thuringian Equality Act science from 2003 to 2004. Since 2004, she participates in the DFG funded project Gender Policy for the Union: institutionalization of equality standards in the supranational and global context in part (up 2006). She is currently a co-applicant in the research network Mobilization of Religion in Europe .
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.) The social positioning of gender: Discourses of difference in German and French sociology around 1900 . Frankfurt am Main 2011, Campus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-593-39526-5 .
- (with Gesa Lindemann ): axes of thought. On the theoretical and institutional talk of gender . Frankfurt am Main 1994, 2nd edition 1996, Suhrkamp, ISBN 3-518-11729-7 .
- World society . Bielefeld 2000, Transcript-Verlag, ISBN 3-933127-13-0 .
- Between the front and back stages. Contributions to the change in gender relations in science from the 17th century to the present . Bielefeld 2003, Transcript-Verlag, ISBN 3-89942-118-3 .
- Elective affinities. Sociology and women on the way to science (habilitation thesis). Frankfurt am Main 1997, Campus Verlag, ISBN 3-593-35712-7 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Theresa Wobbe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Theresa Wobbe at the University of Potsdam
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wobbe, Theresa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bark |