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since August 2009: non-tenured Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessor") at the Department of Sociology, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

August 2003 - August 2009: Assistant Lecturer/Professor ("Wissenschaftlicher Assistent") at the Department of Sociology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

April 2003: doctoral degree in sociology and analyse du discours

    'Prophets' and 'Humanists': The conjuncture of the sciences humaines and the intellectual field in France (1960-1980) in structural-pragmatic discourse analysis
    Supervisors: Eckhard Dittrich (sociology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg) and Dominique Maingueneau (linguistics, University of Paris 12-Val de Marne) ("co-tutelle de thèse", summa cum laude, Très honorable avec les félicitations à l'unanimité).
    Award for the best PhD dissertation of the Faculty for Arts and Sciences, University of Magdeburg 2003.

April 2004 - August 2005: Postdoc researcher at the Center for the study of discourses, images, texts, writings, communication (Céditec), Paris 12, France

April 1999 to July 2003: employee/lecturer ("wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") at the Department of Sociology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Studying, teaching, research at

    February - April 2010: research stay at University of California, Berkeley
    Université de Paris XII-Val de Marne (France, several stays since 2001, postdoc stay from April 2004-August 2005)
    Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany, since winter 2009/10)
    Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany, summer 1999 to summer 2009)
    Harvard University (USA, March to April 1999)
    University of Georgia, Athens (USA, September to January 1997)
    Université de Paris-IV "Sorbonne" (France, April to August 1997)
    Faculty of Sociology St. Petersburg (Russia, August to September 1995, February to July 1996)
    Duke University (USA, August 1994 to May 1995)
    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany, November 1992 to February 1997)

February 1997: M.A. (Erlangen-Nuremberg University)

    Disciplines: Sociology, Eastern European History, American Studies
    master's thesis on Ethnicity, Biography and social change in a transforming society. An empirical study of the Armenian minority in St. Petersburg. (English article)

Scholarships:

    Fulbrigt Commission scholar: September - October 2005 for a seminar in Washington, D.C. and New York City on "Media in American Society"
    Feodor-Lynen scholar of Humboldt-Foundation: April 2004 - August 2005 (Amiens, France)
    Kennedy Institute Berlin
    PhD scholarship ("Graduiertenförderungsgesetz"): October 1997 to March 1999
    DAAD: August 1994 to May 1995
    Bavarian Excellence Program ("Bayerische Begabtenförderung"): November 1992 to February 1997

High school degree ("Abitur") and community service ("Zivildienst") 1992 in Erlangen

Born on July 7th, 1973 in Erlangen