Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann

Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann

Faculty of Sociology
Bielefeld University
E-Mail: ursula.mense@uni-bielefeld.de

Ursula Mense-Petermann is professor of economic sociology and the sociology of work at Bielefeld University’s Faculty of Sociology. Her current research focuses on economic globalization and on transnationally mobile work. The processes and problems of transcending (political and cultural) boundaries in the economic realm are at the centre of her research interests. As a member of the Institute of World Society Studies (IW), she is also interested in world society theory and the world society-specific social structures (“Eigenstrukturen von Weltgesellschaft”, vgl. Stichweh 2001), like global/transnational labour markets (for further details see Research Projects).

Education
2006 Habilitation at Bielefeld University
2000 Dissertation at Magdeburg University
1993 First State Examinations in social sciences, educational sciences and German studies at Bielefeld University
Professional Career
2009- Full professor of economic sociology and the sociology of work at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2007-2009 Full professor of sociology at the Economics Department, Klagenfurt University, Austria
2000-2007 Assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
1999-2000 Maternity leave
1995-1998 Research associate and reader in sociology at University of Magdeburg, Faculty of Humanities
1993-1995 Research assistant in different research projects at Bielefeld University and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Awards
1999 Phd Dissertation Award of the ‘Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie’
2000 Best-phd-of-the-academic-year-2000 – Award in the Humanities of Magdeburg University
Functions in Academia
2017-2020 Member of the FG Senate Committee and Grant Committee on Research Training Groups
2023- Member of the DFG Senate and DFG Joint Committee
Administrative experience and additional information
2016-2020 Director of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
2014-2016 Deputy Director of the BGHS
2013- Member of the Board of the BGHS
2017-2018 Convenor (together with Thomas Welskopp and Anna Zaharieva) of the Research Group “In Search of the Global Labour Market” at ZiF (Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University)
2014-2022 Member of the commission for Ph. D. administration and admissions, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2010-2012 Dean of studies of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2010-2012 Head of the commission for study programmes and the commission for the administration of tuition fees
2010-2016 Member of the faculty conference, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2009- Member of the Institute of Word Society Studies (IW), Bielefeld University