Professor Dr Ursula Apitzsch
Professor Dr. Ursula
Apitzsch is full Professor of Sociology and Political Science at J.W. Goethe
University and member of the Board of Directors of the Frankfurt Centre for
Women’s and Gender Studies. She has teaching experience as a visiting
professor at the universities of Swansea, UK (1991); University of
California/Berkeley, USA (1992 and 1993); Firenze, Italy (1994); Roma, Italy
(1998); Bologna, Italy (1999). Professor Apitzsch researches and publishes
broadly within the fields of culture, developmental and migration studies,
having a wide experience in empirical social research, with special regard
to qualitative methods. She has participated in, and co-ordinated, European
research projects.
In
October 2000 Prof. Apitzsch was elected Dean of the Faculty of
Political and Social Science. From 1995 until 1999, she was President of the
section of “Biographical Research” within the “German Sociological
Association” (DGS/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie). She is also a
board member of the Research Committee “Biography and Society” within the
“International Sociological Association” (ISA). Between 1997 and 2000 she
was the scientific coordinator of the TSER-project "Self-employment
activities of women and minorities: their success or failure in relation to
social citizenship policies" (PL 97-3211).
Her recent
publications include 'Biographien in Europa. Neue
Dimensionen des Sozialen,' in: Franz Hamburger et al, eds. Gestaltung des
Sozialen – eine Herausforderung für Europa (Leske+Budrich, 2002), and 'Ausländische
Kinder und Jugendliche,' in: Heinz-Hermann Krüger and Cathleen Grunert,
eds. Handbuch Kindheits- und Jugendforschung (Leske+Budrich, 2002).
