Fields of research
discourse, language, society methods of social research sociology of science, intellectuals and education power, hegemony, inequality globalization, capitalism, postmodernity Social change, especially transformation in Eastern Europe social, political, and cultural theory transnational public spheres and discourses in Europe media sociology, cultural studies, sociology of literature comparative study of societies, e.g. France, USA, Germany, Russia Board member of academic journals
BMS, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology Journal of Multicultural Discourses Mots. Les langages du politique Semen. Revue de sémiolinguistique des textes et discours Transeo. A transnational and interdisciplinary journal on the production and the use of culture, literature and science Member of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Sections Sociology of knowledge, Qualitative methods); Association Française de Sociologie; Association Internationale de Sociologues de Langue Française; International Sociological Association Member of Center for (Higher) Education Research (University of Mainz) Chair of Gradnet e.V. - Association for the promotion
of young scholars, academics, and professors (Magdeburg) Member of the Centre d'études des discours, images, textes, écrits et communications (CEDITEC) (Université de Paris 12) Board member of "Institute of solidary modernity" Member of the Frankfurt Workshop for Political Theory and Philosophy(Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe University Frankfurt)
Member of Social and Cultural Studies Mainz, SOCUM, Arbeitsgruppe 1 (Mainz University) Member and coordinator of DFG network "Methodologies and methods of discourse analysis" Member of DFG network "Constructivist Conflict Research" Founder (with Jörg Meyer, Raj Kollmorgen and Dirk Wiemann) of the Transdisciplinary Forum Magdeburg ("Transforma")
Member of Attac and GEW