1999 Habilitation, Sociology and Political Education, University of Potsdam, Prof. Günter C. Behrmann
1992 Doctorate, Sociology, University of Tübingen, Prof. Friedrich H. Tenbruck
1979-1987 Studies of Sociology, Political Sciences, History, Ethnology, Empirical Cultural Sciences, University of Stuttgart and Tübingen, Magister Artium (Ethnology)
2016-present W3 Professor for Cultural Sociology, Department for Political Sciences and Sociology, University of Bonn
2002-2016 C3 Professor for General Sociology, University of Koblenz-Landau
2001 Deputy Assistant for Sociology, University of Heidelberg
2000-2001 Guest Professor for Sociology, University of Graz
2000-2001 Scientist in DFG research project, University of Trier
1999-2000 Deputy Professor for Sociology, University of Heidelberg
1993-1999 Scientific Assistant, Institute for Didactics of Political Education / Social Sciences, University of Potsdam
1991-1993 Scientist in the research project “Frankfurter Schule”, University of Tübingen
2019 Speaker of the Transdisciplinary Research Area „Individuen, Institutionen und Gesellschaften“, University of Bonn
2015-present Co-Director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study “Law as Culture”, University of Bonn
2011-2012 Member in Expert Commission on Social Integration in the framework of the Future Dialog (‘Zukunftsdialog’) of the German Federal Ministry
2008-present Managing Editor, Sociologia internationalis
2005-2011 Speaker of the Section for Cultural Sociology of the German Society for Sociology
1987-1990 PhD Fellowship of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
