Prof. Dr. Mike Laufenberg
+49 661 9640-2226
Sociology with a specialisation in gender and sexuality
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
26,
Room
114
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Germany
CV
- Since 2024: Professor of Sociology with a specialisation in gender and sexuality at the Department of Social Work at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
- 2019-2024: Research employee at the Institute of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2020-2023 in a BMBF research project on poverty and participation in rural areas).
- 2021: Interim professorship for women's and gender studies at the Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
- 2020: Visiting Professor for Gender and Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna
- 2016-2019: Project manager of the DFG project "The socialisation of dementia. Welfare state and cultural factors influencing life with dementia using the example of community-based care constellations", Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, TU Berlin
- 2012-2019: Research employee at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, TU Berlin
- 2011: Doctoral degree in sociology with a thesis on biopolitics and sexuality
- 2010: Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), research group "Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Diversity"
- 2008: Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research, New York City
- 2007-2011: Doctoral scholarship holder of the Hans Böckler Foundation; lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences of the HU Berlin and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies, TU Berlin
- 2001-2006: Diploma Programme in Social Sciences, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
Teaching Areas
- Sociological basics and social policy
- Social inequalities, poverty
- Gender, sexuality, diversity
- Social justice, intersectionality, anti-discrimination
Areas of Research
- Changes in the welfare state, labour and family
- Gender and sexuality studies, queer studies
- Urban and rural poverty
- Care and social reproduction
- Civil society and social movements
Memberships
and functions
- German Sociological Association (DGS)
- Women's and Gender Studies Section of the DGS (Council member 2016-20)
- Society for Gender Studies
- Coordination of the Sexuality & Society working group in the DGS (together with Sabine Flick)
- Network Sexuality in Social Work
- Member of the Issue Group "Poverty Research" of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS)
- Research advisory board member of the Centre for Gender Studies Cologne (GeStiK)
- Liaison lecturer at the Hans Böckler Foundation