Team Introduction

We warmly welcome Friederike Rosenbaum, Dr. Matthias Schneider, and Dr. Daniel Schumann to the Institute of Sociology! They enrich our team with their perspectives on gender and diversity. More detailed information about their profiles can be found in the following briefs and via the provided links.

Friederike Rosenbaum, M.A. (FU-Webpage)

Studies:
B.A. Sociology and Political Science in Constance and Haifa; M.A. Social- and Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin.

Research Associate:
Research Associate in the project “DEVGAV: Discrimination, Emotions and Consumer Behaviour. Basic research and possible applications for feminist consumer work”, funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV); Scientific Director Dr. Matthias Schneider.

Research Focus:
Political sociology and anthropology, theories of emotion and affect, diversity research.

Contact:
Friederike.Rosenbaum[a]fu-berlin.de

Dr. Matthias Schneider (FU-Webpage)

Studies:
B.A. in Sociology in Jena; M.A. in Sociology in Bamberg and Copenhagen.

Doctorate:
Doctoral dissertation at the Goethe University Frankfurt; “Masculinity and Forced Migration. Biographical perspectives on the life stories of men who fled from Eritrea”; funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

PostDoc:

• University of Potsdam; DFG research group “Law, Gender, Collectivity”; collaborative project with Maja Apelt on gender equality in consumer organizations.
• Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology, Research Group Gender Studies; Collaborative project with Kathrin Zippel on internationalization, higher education, and diversity; Funded by the Einstein Foundation.
• Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology, Research Group Gender Studies; Scientific Director DEVGAV; Funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection.

Research Areas:
Masculinity, Gender, and Diversity Studies; Organization, Law, Internationalization, and Refugee Research; Qualitative Social Research.

Contact:
Matthias.Schneider[a]fu-berlin.de

Dr. Daniel Schumann (FU-Webpage)

Studies:
BA in Sociology in Freiburg and MA in Sociology in Freiburg and Lima, funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation; Studium Generale in Tübingen.

Doctorate:
Doctoral dissertation at the University of Göttingen: “Epistemologies of Integration: The Politics of Knowledge in Post-Migrant Society Using the Example of Textbooks”. Research stays at UC Berkeley and the Research Institute Social Cohesion (FGZ-RISC) in Leipzig.

PostDoc:
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Sociology, Research Group Gender Studies; Collaborative project with Kathrin Zippel: “Reconfigurations of Diversity and Internationalization: The Case of the European Universities Initiative”; Funded by the Einstein Foundation.

Research Areas:
Diversity Studies, Sociology of Education and Knowledge, Discourse and Dispositif Analysis, Qualitative Methodologies.

Contact:
Daniel.Schumann[a]fu-berlin.de