Curriculum vitae

1990-1995
University studies of philosophy, sociology and french in Freiburg,
Berlin (Free University) and Paris (Université Paris I.-Panthéon-Sorbonne).
- Briand-Stresemann grant of the city of Berlin 1994/95 -

June 1995:
Maitrise diploma at Université Paris I. with a thesis on the early publishing activities of the German writer Ernst Jünger analysed with Pierre Bourdieu's method of the sociology of art.

June 2000:
Obtaining the degree of Dr. phil. (PhD) in Sociology at University of Freiburg/Germany.
Thesis:
Psychotechnik und Radiophonie. Subjektkonstruktionen in artifiziellen Wirklichkeiten 1918-1932
(Psychological Engineering and Radiophony. Constructions of Subjectivity in Artificial Realities 1918-1932)
- Grant of the Hans Boeckler foundation from 1997 to 2000 -

October 2000 to March 2001:
Visiting lecturer at Sociology department of Freiburg University

since April 2001:
Assistant professor/lecturer (wiss. Assistent) at Sociology department
of Technische Universität Dresden, chair for sociological theory,
history of theory and sociology of culture (Prof. Dr. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg)

2005 and 2007:
Feodor Lynen reasearch Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt foundation for two stays at Goldsmiths College, London (April to August 2005 and 2007; host: Prof. Scott Lash).

April 2008:
Obtaining the degree of Dr. phil. habil. at Technische Universität Dresden.
The Habilitation (postdoctoral) thesis has been published as
"Die Verfügbarkeit der Dinge. Eine historische Soziologie des Konsums" (Frankfurt/New York 2009).
(The availability of things. A historical sociology of consumption)

Bestowal of the venia legendi for sociology and the title of "Privatdozent" (≈Associate Professor).

September 2009 to March 2010:
Visting Chair at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology

October 2010 to March 2012
Visting Professor (Full Professor) of Cultural Sociology at Leuphana University Lüneburg