Research Interests
- Gender Studies
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Sociology of Human Rights
- Queer Kinship
- Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)
Research Projects
- 01/2018-07/2021: Ambivalente Anerkennungsordnung. Doing reproduction und doing family jenseits der heterosexuellen Normalfamilie. Principal investigators: Dr. Mona Motakef, Dr. Almut Peukert, Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- since 10/2014: Human Rights and Reproduction - Gay Parenthood and Surrogacy in Israel and Germany (PhD project)
Academic Career
- Since 10/2017
Research Fellow, Humboldt-University, Social Science Department
- 10/2014 – 09/2017
Doctoral Candidate, Graduate School “Human Rights under Pressure. Ethics, Law and Politics”, Freie Universität Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- 02/2016-06/2016 and 02/2017 – 05/2017
Visiting Researcher, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel.
- 01/2012 – 09/2013
Research Fellow, University Duisburg-Essen, Sociology Department
- 10/2011 – 12/2011
Research Fellow, Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB)
Publications and Talks
2019
- Creating a family through surrogacy: Negotiating parental positions, familial boundaries and kinship practices. In: GENDER 11(2), p. 56-70. (together with Almut Peukert).
- Wenn das liebe Geld nicht wär': Zur Konstruktion von Intimität zwischen Tragemüttern und gleichgeschlechtlichen Männerpaaren. In: Feministische Studien 37 (1), S. 65-81.
- ‘Real’ and ‘other’ mothers: Using reproductive technologies in the queer struggle for visibility and recognition. Talk at the European Sociological Association Sexuality RN 23, Midterm Conference “Sociological explorations of sexuality in Europe: bodies, practices, and resistance in troubled times”, 14.–15.02.2019, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. (together with Dr. Almut Peukert, Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer and Dr. Mona Motakef)
2018
- Intimate entanglements: Gay fathers and gestational carriers building intimate relationships in commercial surrogacy arrangements. Talk at the conference "The Political in the Personal: Families and Sexualities in Times of Social Change in Europe“, 26.-27.4.2018, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Intimate entanglements: Gay fathers and surrogates constructing intimate relationships. Talk at the Ad-hoc-group „Soziologische Perspektiven auf transnationale Reproduktionsökonomien: Reproduktive Praktiken und ihre globalen Verflechtungen“. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 26.9.2018, Göttingen, Germany.
- ‘Real’ and ‘other’ mothers: Using reproductive technologies in the queer struggle for visibility and recognition. Talk at Ad-hoc-Gruppe „Soziologische Perspektiven auf transnationale Reproduktionsökonomien: Reproduktive Praktiken und ihre globalen Verflechtungen“, 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie „Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen“, 24.-28.09.2018, Göttingen, Germany. (together with Dr. Almut Peukert, Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer and Dr. Mona Motakef)
- Trapped in the hegemonic order? Gay fathers oscillating between heteronormative family narratives and queering kinship. Talk at the conference "Close Relations. A multi- and interdisciplinary conference on critical family and kinship studies“, 24-26.10.2018, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2017
- Zwei Väter und eine Leihmutter. Konstruktion von Intimität in kommerzialisierten Nahbeziehungen. Talk at the conference “Present Challenges of Gender Studies”, 30.9.2017, Cologne, Germany.
- Human Rights and Queer Kinship - Surrogate Fathers from Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the “Intimate 2nd International Conference: Queering Parenting”, 02.3.2017, Coimbra, Portugal.
- Gleichgeschlechtliche männliche Paare und Elternschaft. Talk at the University Cologne (invited by Prof. Dr. Diana Lengersdorf), 23.1.2017, Cologne, Germany.
2016
- Schwule Elternschaft in Deutschland und Israel - Zwischen Normalisierungsdruck und kritischer Intervention. Talk at the ad-hoc-Gruppe „Familie(n) jenseits der heterosexuellen ‚Normalfamilie’ – Heteronormativitäts- und paarkritische Perspektiven“. 38. Conference of the German Sociological Association, 29.9.2016, Bamberg, Germany.
- Gay Parents between Heteronormalisation and Queer Kinship. Talk at the panel “Making kinship: Technology, bio-politics, and reproductive justice”, 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology, 8.9.2016, Barcelona, Spain.
- (Un-)intentional Pioneers – Same-sex parents oscillating between heteronormative family narratives and queering kinship. Paper presented at the panel “Kinning from the edges: LGBTQ doing and undoing families”, European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), 22.6.2016, Milano, Italy.
- Im ‚Gender-Wahn‘? Diskurse gegen Gleichstellungspolitik und Geschlechterforschung im Spannungsfeld von Prekarisierung, Materialisierung und Geschlecht. Talk at the 6th Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association “Materialität/en und Geschlecht“, 12.2.2016, Berlin, Germany. (together with Dr. Mona Motakef and Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer)
2015
- Menschenrechte = Frauenrechte = sexuelle Rechte = Herausforderungen für Menschenrechte Wissenschaftlerinnen. In: Wissenschaftlerinnen-Rundbrief (2015/1), S. 12-14.
- Prekäre Selbstverständlichkeiten. Neun prekarisierungstheoretische Thesen zu Diskursen gegen Gleichstellungspolitik und Geschlechterforschung, in: Sabine Hark und Paula-Irene Villa (Hrsg.), (Anti-)Genderismus. Sexualität und Geschlecht als Schauplätze aktueller politischer Auseinandersetzungen. Bielefeld: transcript. (together with Dr. Mona Motakef and Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer)
- Human Rights and Reproduction - Researching gay parenthood and surrogacy in global capitalism. Paper presented at the International Summer School “The Diversity of Human Rights: Human Rights and Capitalism“, 1.9.2015, IUC Dubrovnik/Croatia.
- Researching gay couples and parenthood in the situation of surrogacy journeys - A methodological account. Talk at the 1st Summer School “Human Rights under Pressure”, 1.7.2015, Berlin, Germany.
2014
- Das Phänomen des Anti-Genderismus prekarisierungstheoretisch betrachtet. Neun Thesen. Talk at the ad-Hoc-Gruppe „Genderismus – Der Umbau der Gesellschaft“, 37. Conference of the German Sociological Association, 9.10.2014, Trier. (together with Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer and Dr. Mona Motakef)
- SozBlog der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Juli/August 2014. (together with Dr. Mona Motakef and Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer)
2013
- „Queering the family!“ – Eine heteronormativitäts- und paarkritische Perspektive auf Reproduktion. Talk at the annual conference of the Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW “Zukunftsfragen und Genderforschung – Ein interdisziplinärer Forschungsdialog”, 8.11.2013, Essen, Germany. (together with Dr. Mona Motakef and Prof. Christine Wimbauer)
2012
- Gleichheit oder Geschlechterkampf? Kommentar zu Volksheim oder Shopping Mall von Wolfgang Streeck, in: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 9 (12), pp.180-193. (together with Dr. Mona Motakef and Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer).
- Emerging care and body economies in East Asia - transnationalizing inequalities? Talk at the Gender Workshops der DFG Research Training Group 1613 “Risk and East Asia“ (Universität Duisburg-Essen) and the JSPS project “Livelihood Security Systems and Global Economic Crises“ (University of Tokyo), 26.11.2012, Essen, (together with Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer).
2009
- Women's Rights as Human Rights: Contesting Universalizing 'Imports' from Western Liberalism through Local Social Movements. In: Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology (9), S. 13-22.