Prof. Dr. Rixta Wundrak

+49 661 9640-4583
rixta.wundrak(at)sk.hs-fulda.de

Empirical Social Research with a focus on Qualitative Methods

Director of the Bachelor´s programme Social Sciences with a specialisation in Intercultural Relations

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 23, Room 008
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: by appointment via e-mail to Ms. Arjmandi-Rafsanjani(alaleh.arjmandi-rafsanjani@sk.hs-fulda.de)

CV

  • 2019-present, Professor for Empirical Social Research with a focus on Qualitative Methods, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • 2020, Habilitation, venia legendi in Sociology, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
  • 2016-2019, Researcher and Lecturer, Institute for Inequality and Social Policy (SOCIUM), University of Bremen, Germany
  • 2009-2013, Scientific Associate and Project Coordinator, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, Germany
  • 2010-2015, Research Project Coordinator, Trilateral DFG Research Project ‘Outsiders and Established at the Same Time: Palestinians and Israelis in Different Figurations’, Georg-August University Goettingen, Germany Link
  • 2002-2006: Project Coordinator: DFG Research Project: Migration Processes in Romania, Structural Aspects and Action Strategies of Migrants, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, University of Potsdam, Germany
  • 09/2002-03/2006 Project Coordination and Research Assistant University of Potsdam, Institute for Cultural Anthropology DFG Research Project: Migration Processes in Romania - Structural Aspects and Action Strategies of Migrants
  • 1997-2002: Project Assistant: KulturKontakt ‘South East Europe Initiative’ (an implementation of 17 multilateral projects in South Eastern Europe), European Competence and Resource Centre, Austria Link

Teaching Areas

  • Methods of Empirical Social Research and Intercultural Relations
  • Social Science Methodology in Human Rights Studies and Intercultural Communication

Areas of Research

  • Interpretative Social Research
  • Biographical research, discourse ethnography
  • Discourse Ethnography
  • Migration, Minorities
  • Sociology of Culture
  • Inter- and Transculturality,

Research Projects

  • Vernetzte Biographien. Paarbeziehungen als Fusion interkultureller Netzwerke
  • "Willkommen im Paradies" Diskursethnographien im Kontext von Flucht und Hilfe

Memberships

  • International Sociological Association (ISA): RC 38, Biography and Society
  • European Sociological Association (ESA)
  • German Sociological Association (DGS): Section for the Sociology of Knowledge, Section for Biographical Research, Section for Qualitative Methods in Empirical Social Research, Section for Network Research.
  • Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS): Section for Empirical Methods and Research Design
  • Network Sociological Discourse Analysis (WDA)
  • Network Qualitative Research Graz
  • Vienna Network for Theory and Methodology

Publications

to the complete list of publications: Link

selected publications

  • Wundrak, Rixta (2020): On the (lack of) inclusion of the corporeal-feminine in biographical case reconstructions. In: BIOS- Journal of Biographical Research, Oral History and Life Course Analysis, 1+2-2019, Vol. 32, (forthcoming) Verlag Budrich-Journals.
  • Wundrak, Rixta (2018): The Sociology of Knowledge Approach in Discourse Ethnography SKADE. Journal for Discourse Studies (ZfD) | Journal for Dicourse Studies (JfDS). 5. yr., h.3.
  • Wundrak, Rixta; Maeder, Cristoph; Elliker, Florian (2017): Introduction to the thematic issue and methodological thoughts on the Sociology of Knowledge Approach in Discourse Ethnography SKADE. Jg. 5, H. 3, 232-248.
  • Wundrak, Rixta (2017): Welcome to Paradise. Methodological accentuations to the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography based on field notes from a refugees' shelter. In: Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung (ZfD) | Journald for Discourse Studies (JfDS). Jg. 5, H. 3, 276-298.
  • Wundrak, Rixta; Ransiek, Anna (2016): Dialogue and Narration. In: The International Journal of Cross-cultural Studies and Environmental Communication. IJCCSEC. Special Issue on Dialogue in a Global World. Editura Universitara Bucuresti, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2016. link ( pp. 41-51).
  • Wundrak, Rixta (2016): Veiling and appropriating everyday history/s. A sociological discourse ethnography (WDE) of narrative interviews in Romania and in Israel. Journal of Discourse Research, Issue 01, pp. 71-91.


Essays in anthologies

  • Wundrak, Rixta (2020): Engaging the global - with the sociology of knowledge discourse ethnography. In: Hitzer, Ronald; Eisewicht, Paul; Schindler, Larissa: Field and Field. (forthcoming)
  • Wundrak, Rixta (2019): Rosenthal's reconstructive biographical research. In: Jost, Gerald; Haas, Marita (eds.) : Sociological Biographical Research. Handbook on methodological practice. Springer VS, pp. 145-166
  • Wundrak, Rixta (2018): Biography as practice-discourse formation. A praxeological perspective on life history interviews. In: Alber, Ina; Griese, Birgit; Schiebel, Martina (eds.): Biographical research as a practice of triangulation. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, pp. 83-104. (peer-reviewed).

Talks

  • 30.03.2023
    Wundrak, Rixta: Das Selbst und seine Verhältnisse. Discourse analysis in dialogue with subject-oriented methodologies. Conference: The Discursive Construction of Reality V - Interdisciplinary Perspectives of a Sociological Discourse Research at the University of Augsburg, DE.
  • 09.07.2022
    Wundrak, Rixta: Dimensionen des Körperlich-Leiblichen in der Analyse von Lebenswelt und Lebensgeschichte, Vortrag auf den Fuldaer Feldarbeitstagen an der Hochschule Fulda, DE.
  • 21.06.2022
    Wundrak, Rixta: Am I in a film or is this research? Why methodology is so important in the social sciences. Inaugural lecture at Fulda University of Applied Sciences in the context of the Fulda Evenings, DE.
  • 14.07.2021
    Wundrak, Rixta: Diskursethnographien in Rumänien und in Israel. Lecture at the Sociology Colloquium at the University of Bayreuth, DE.
  • 09.12.2020
    Wundrak, Rixta: Migration und Zugehörigkeit aus soziologischer Perspektive. Lecture in the context of the habilitation at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, DE.
  • 23.11.2020
    Wundrak, Rixta: Transnationalism: Practices, Discourses and Lifeworlds. Methodological consideration of two research contexts (Romania and Israel). Habilitation colloquium in the context of the habilitation at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, DE.
  • 31.08.2017
    Wundrak, Rixta: "Welcome to paradise [sic]" Discourse ethnography in the refugees' world/s in Europe. Paper presented at the 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities in Athens, Greece, RS12: Key Topics in the Sociology of Knowledge III: Discourses, Affectivity & Subjectivities.
  • 14.07.2017
    Wundrak, Rixta: Biographical Case Reconstruction. Methodological localisations and possible connections to practice theory. Lecture and workshop for the Research Training Group Doing Transitions - Forms of Shaping Transitions in the Life Course (Cooperative DFG Research Training Group of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen) at Goethe University, Frankfurt, DE.
  • 22.06.2017
    Wundrak, Rixta: Gestaltungsqualitäten der Empirie. Triangulating biography, ethnography and discourse. Conference of the Vienna Network for Theory and Methodology, "Social Sciences in the Extra Room" as part of the event series: Methodeninnovationen. Current Debates in Qualitative Social Research.
  • 23.03.2017
    Wundrak, Rixta: Heterotopias of Flight. Autoethnographic interaction and discourse analysis in an emergency shelter for refugees in Berlin. WDE weitergedacht. Conference: The Discursive Construction of Reality III - Interdisciplinary Perspectives of a Sociological Discourse Research at the University of Augsburg, DE.
  • 13.12.2016
    Wundrak, Rixta: Discourse Ethnographies in Romania and in Israel. Lecture at the BIQUAM Colloquium (Bremen Initiative for Qualitative Methods) at Socium, Bremen.
  • 01.09.2016
    Wundrak, Rixta: Welcome to Paradise! A discourse-ethnography about a shelter for refugees in Berlin (The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse Ethnography - SCADE). Qualitative Research Summit Midterm Conference. European Sociological Association Research Network 20 Qualitative Methods - ESA RN 20, Cracow, Poland.
  • 04.04.2016
    Wundrak, Rixta: 'Welcome to Paradise'. Reflections on the programmatic of the Sociological Discourse Ethnography WDE. Research talk at the Sociological Seminar St. Gallen (SfS-HSG), Switzerland.
  • 09.12.2015
    Wundrak, Rixta: Diskursanalyse und Ethnographien der Migrationsforschung. Lecture in the context of the lecture series 'Social Work and Health in the Context of Social Cohesion'. Emden-Leer University of Applied Sciences, DE. (Invitation).

Further Functions

Member of the Fulda Graduate Centre of  Sciences, Centre Board

Member of the Faculty Council, Department Social- and Cultural Sciences

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