Doctoral Program Sociology and Cultural Organization
The doctoral program Sociology and Cultural Organization is oriented towards sociology and social science based on cultural theory. Dissertation projects from this research area are being worked on and supervised. Their common ground is the sociological analysis of empirical cultural phenomena and questions of cultural theory; this approach is also extended to include inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. Empirically, the focus is on qualitative methods of participatory observation, interviewing, and textual, visual, and data-based analysis, including 'mixed methods' as well as performative methods.
The research group cooperates with the DFG Graduate College Cultures of Criticism (KdK), especially with regard to research on social criticism, as well as with the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC) investigating sociality shaped by media technology as well as the organized nature of media technology apparatuses.
Every semester, the doctoral program organizes doctoral colloquia where ongoing work can be presented; guests are welcome to attend. For PhD students, there is also a range of methodological colloquia and additional courses that are accredited as part of the doctoral program.
Research Fields
- art organization, organizational art (esp. theater, literature, visual arts, museums)
- border and migration studies
- citizenship studies
- critical data studies
- critical racism research
- digital cultures
- political economy
- research on social movements
- science and technology studies
- social and political theory
- sociology of the arts and cultural fields
- sociology of organization, organization studies
- sociological theory of culture
- sociology of law and crime
- solitical sociology
- urban and spatial sociology, cultural organization and the city
Current dissertation projects
| Name | Titel | Betreuer*in |
| Luca Scheunpflug | Fluid Urban Futures: Digital Water Assemblages in Times of Climate Change | Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen |
| Maja-Lee Voigt | Cities on Demand? Unboxing Urban Un_Certainties from Amazon's Algorithmic Architectures and Forecasted Futures | Prof. Dr. Armin Beverungen |
| Calum Bowden | Interface Afterlives | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Allister Chang | Organizing Publics | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Anna Kalinina | Self-organization in Russian Anti-War Networks | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Miriam Knobe | Performance Factories: Räume und Organisationsweisen künstlerischer Produktion | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Annika Lübben | Future-Making in Silicon Valley. Programmed Futures | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Duygu Örs-Ildiz | Recht auf Stadt, Recht auf Museum | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Clara Wieghorst | Imaginäre der Entnetzung | Prof. Dr. Timon Beyes |
| Kelly Bescherer | Identity as Deportability: On Identitätsklärung as a Contested Practice of Control within the German-European Deportation Regime | Prof. Dr. Serhat Karakayali |
| Beyza Karayel | On the Outside Looking In: The Practices and Perceptions of Exiled Turkish Journalists in Germany | Prof. Dr. Serhat Karakayali |
| Thomas Heskia | Governance in der Darstellenden Kunst. Steuerung, Aufsicht und Machtgefüge öffentlicher Theater | Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg |
| Julian Willming | From Urban Wasteland to Urban Commons: Analysing the Processes, (Sub-)Cultures and Social Dynamics of Re-Opening Industrial Space. An Ethnographic Study of Kindl-Brewery in Berlin-Neukölln | Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg |
| Felix Fink | Die Politik zukünftiger Generationen | Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Kretschmann |
| Katharina Heermann | Soziale Kategorisierung in der anwaltlichen Abschlussentscheidung. Eine qualitative Analyse von Einflussfaktoren auf die Entscheidungsfindung im Kontext der Rechtsgleichheit | Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Kretschmann |
| Valentin Ihßen | Digitale Politik als Beruf, Campaigning als neue politische Kultur | Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Kretschmann |
| Berit Merla | Die Konstruktion der Kategorie des ‚Polizeilichen Gegenübers‘ | Prof.in Dr.in Andrea Kretschmann |
| Salah El-Kahil | Infrastructuring Identification ans Citizenship | Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel |
| Sifkar Etlar Frederiksen | Violence and Protection in Refugee Accomodations in Germany: Policies and Data Practices for Safety? | Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel |
| Oisin O'Brien | Digital Identity and the Enactment of Trust Relations between the State and Citizens in Estonia | Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel |