Prof. Dr. Maria Pohn-Lauggas

Prof. Dr. Maria Pohn-Lauggas is the Professor of Qualitative Methods of Social Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum (DFG Heisenberg Professorship).

Main areas of teaching and research:

Political sociology, historical sociology, collective memory and culture of remembrance, multigenerational and biographical research, visual sociology, discourse research, methodological plural research

Research project investigator:

• “Aliens in the Community” and “Enemies of the State”: Intergenerational Structures of Action and Memory in Families of Stigmatized Victims of National Socialism in Austria and Germany
• Individual and collective memories of slavery and the slave trade: A contrastive comparison of different communities, generations and groupings in Ghana and Brazil

Doctoral projects

• Victoria Taboada Gomez - Trajectories across history, collective memory and strategy: the biographies of women from indigenous communities in Paraguay
• Sarah Könecke - "Otherwise I don't know where we would be today" - Effects of National Socialist persecution on the action and memory structures of the descendants of women persecuted as "asocial" and "criminal"
• Elio Clemenz - Treatment decisions of intersex people in adolescence and adulthood
• Friederike von Ass - Of violence, faith and obedience. A biographical-theoretical and discourse-analytical study of former residents of Colonia Dignidad

Consultation hour

Consultation hour: Please make an appointment via email.
Tuesday 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. (online or in person)