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Yonson Ahn has been Professor of Korean Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main since December 2014. She received her Ph.D. in Gender Studies from the University of Warwick, England, in 2000. Her research focuses on transnational migration in the care sector, marriage migration and sexualised violence in the context of war.
Professor of Social Sciences since 1993; teaching and research specialisations: migration and biography research, gender studies, cultural analysis; member of the CGC since 1998; Managing Director of the CGC from 2007 to 2011.
Professor of Industrial and Organisational Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Gender and work, gender and education, gender and technology; member of the CGC since 2010.
Former Professor of Education, with teaching and research interests in qualitative research methods, particularly ethnographic field research and cultural analysis, as well as youth and university socialisation research. Member of the CGC since 2002.
From 1987 to 2004, Professor at the Women and Gender Studies Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research focus: History and theory of feminism, social policy, women and law, legal history and sociology. Co-founder of the journal Feministische Studien. Founding director and from 1997-2004 executive director of the CGC.
Professor at the Institute of Sports Science in the Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science. Teaching and research interests include sports sociology, body and gender sociology, and social science identity research. Member of the CGC since 2009.
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research focus: Sociology with a focus on culture and migration. Member of the CGC since 2022.
Professor of Film Studies at the Institute of Theatre, Film and Media Studies. Teaching and research interests: Film theory, history of film and media theory, marginal forms of film (science film, industrial film) and economics of media. Member of the CGC since 2016.
Associate Professor of Modern German Literature at the Institute for German Literature and its Didactics in the Faculty of Modern Philologies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Member of the CGC since 2017.
Professor of Educational Science specialising in youth and schools. Teaching and research interests: School in the migration society, adolescent individuation and subject development, school cultures and social differentiation(s), reconstructive research methods, comparative research perspectives. Member of the CGC since 2024.
Professor of Sociology and Psychoanalytical Social Psychology in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Co-operative Professorship: Institute for Sociology/Goethe-Univ. & Sigmund-Freud-Institute, Frankfurt/M.). Teaching and research interests: Theorising the relationship between Sociality, Culture and the Psyche; Methodological and Methodical Questions on the Analysis of the Relations between Society, the Individual and the Psyche. Member of the CGC since 2017.
Professor at the Institute for Art Education in the Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures, and Arts at Goethe University. Member of the CGC since 2010.
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Biopolitics and sociology of the Body. Member of the CGC since 2009.
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, with teaching and research interests in gender studies, transnational migration research, intersectionality research, racism and ethnicity research, qualitative research methods and biography research. Member of the CGC since December 2007; Deputy Managing Director of the CGC from 2011 to 2015; Managing Director of the CGC from 2015 to 2021.
Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Sociology with a focus on social inequality. Member of the CGC since 2020.
Junior Professor at the Faculty of Modern Philologies. Teaching and research interests: Modern German Literature with a focus on Romanticism. Member of the CGC since 2020.
Professor at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Faculty of Modern Philology. Teaching and research interests: American Literature and Culture of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular literature by women and ethnic minorities; Feminist Theory and Animal Studies. Founding director and executive director of the CGC from 2004 to 2006.
Professor at the Faculty of Educational Science from 1996 to 2007. Teaching and research interests: History of scientific women's education and educational theory, women's studies and girls' education in the National Socialist era. Founding director and executive director of the CGC from 2006 to 2007 .
Lizzie is a Junior Professor of Digital Geography. Empirically much of her research examines how work in the digital era creates distinctive geographies and how geographies make a difference to definitions and practices of work. The focus lies on the contingent production of space in working activity, which enables forms of work definition and differentiation that involve diverse politics and agencies. Conceptually, Lizzie's research is interested in the intersections between economy and culture, drawing on approaches to performance and performativity, together with feminist and queer theories for making sense of and constructing the economic. She has held research and teaching positions at the University of Sheffield, Durham University and the University of Cambridge. She holds a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD in Human Geography from Durham University.
Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Feminist Theory of International Relations, Culture and Development in South-East Africa, Globalisation/Transnationalisation and Gender. Member of the CGC since 2002.
Professor at the Faculty of Law. Teaching and research interests: Gender relations in law and feminist jurisprudence. Expert in hearings of the Bundestag and state parliaments as well as the Joint Constitutional Commission of the Bundestag and Bundesrat on legislative projects in the area of gender equality. Member of the CGC since 1999. Deputy executive director of the CGC from 2011 to 2015.
Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Modern Political Theory, Democratic Theory and Theories of Political Citizenship, Democratic Representation, Transnationalisation of Democracy, History of Political Ideas, Political Theory of Privacy, Gender and Feminist Theory. Member of the CGC since 2016.
Junior Professor at the Institute for Ethnology of the Faculty of Philosophy and History. Teaching and research interests: Latin America (especially Central Mexico), US-Mexican Border Region (especially California); Ethnology of Violence and Feminist Ethnology: Vigilanz, Coloniality of Power, Racism, Gender, Migration, Intersectionality, Affect, Religion, Rituals, Cosmologies. Member of the CGC since 2021.
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Teaching and research interests: Media, Theories of the Public Sphere and Social Movement Research. Member of the editorial board of Feministische Studien since 1988. Member of the CGC since 1997. Deputy managing director of the CGC from 2004 to 2011. Managing director of the CGC from 2011 to 2015.
Laura Hanemann
Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology (Social Theory and Social Research)
Lilian Hümmler
Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology (Women's and Gender Studies)
Katharina Hoppe
Faculty of Social Sciences, Sociology (Social Inequality)
Sophia Schorr
Faculty of Education, General Education (Qualitative Methods and Gender Studies)
Marie Föhr
Maria Ivanov
Marya Skoddow
