Name (year of graduation, Dissertation Title), current position, current institution

Aigul Alieva (2008, Educational policies of small nations: performance of immigrant children in Luxembourg and Switzerland), Assistant Professor, International Master in Social Policy Analysis program, CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg, and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Can Aybek (2008, Immigrant Youth between School and Profession: Individual Transitions and Urban Institutional Structures Supporting Vocational Education and Training), Researcher, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany

Kerstin Blome (2009, Is the Institutionalization of Participation Rights for Non-Governmental Organizations in Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Dispute Settlement Procedures at the Regional and Global Level a Contribution to a Better Enforcement of Public Interest Norms?), Researcher, TranState, UB, Germany

Stefanie Börner (2011, From Nationalisation to Europeanisation of Social Security? Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in the Realm of Social Policy), Research Associate, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Oliver Buntrock (2009, Global Governance and Institutions - The Mechanism of Institutional Action in the Context of an Extended Actor-Centered Institutionalism), Lecturer in European Politics, University of Siegen, Germany

Sebastian Büttner (2010, World-Cultural Constructions of Regions in the New Europe: Regional Development Strategies in Poland), Lecturer in Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Kristin Carls (2011, Changing Patterns of Work in the Discourse of
the Global Social Movement against Neoliberalism-Subjects Between Work and Political Articulation), Researcher, International Labor Organization, Torino, Italy

Cetin Celik (2011, Turkish School Dropouts in Germany. The Process and Meaning of Education), Postdoctoral Researcher, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

Oana Cinca (2010, European Union Employment law across South-Eastern enlargement), Assistant for horizontal policy issues to Head of Unit, DG Health and Consumers, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Charlotte Dany (2009, The Ambiguity of Participation. Limits of NGO Influence at the World Summit on the Information Society), Postdoctoral Researcher of International Relations, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Dörte Dinger (2011, From Friends to Collaborators. A Constructivist Analysis of Changes in Italo-German Relations with the End of the Cold War), Desk officer of Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democratic Party, Berlin, Germany

Oliver Eberl (2007, Democracy and Peace: Kant's "Perpetual Peace" in the Debates on Global Order), Assistant Professor, Political Theory, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Marieke van Egmond (2011, Mind and Virtue: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Beliefs about Learning), Postdoctoral researcher, Jacobs University Bremen

Sina Farzin (2009, Inclusion and Exclusionin Contemporary Europe), Researcher, Sociology Department, UB, Germany

Dawid Friedrich (2008, Regulated Deliberative Participation in Europe. The Presence and Future of an Organised Civil Society in the European Union), Junior Professor of International Relations at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

Lorraine Frisina (2006, Understanding Regional Development: Absorption Institutions and Socio-economic Growth in the regions of the European Union - A Case Study on the Italian Region), Researcher, TranState, UB, Germany

Katarzyna Gajewska (2008, Europeanizing Workers' Solidarity. Mechanisms of Commitment to Cooperation within the European Trade Union Movement), Researcher, University of Strasbourg, France

Mayank-Kumar Golpelwar (2011, Psychosocial and Economics Effects of Outsourcing to India. Suitability of Concepts from Social Sciences in the Western World), Research Associate, Department for human resource management and management science at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

Kristina Hahn (2008, NGOs' Power of Definition. Identity Productions in Counter-Human Trafficking Discourse and the Debates on the UN Protocol), Researcher, TranState, UB, Germany

Stefanie Henneke, (2010, How can Governments Communicate Labour Market Reforms Successfully? A Case Study Comparison of Germany and the UK), Managing Director of the Association of Northern German Universities (Geschäftsführerin des Verbundes norddeutscher Universitäten), Germany

Sabine Henrichsen-Schrembs (2008, Modern Life Courses: Yoga and the Search for Meaning in Contemporary Germany), Administrator, International School of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Sebastian Huster (2007, Transnational Administrative Cooperation in the European Union: The Relevance of the Committee System for the Problem-Solving Capacity of the EU), Managing Director, Graduate Academy, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany

Dong-Ho Jang (2008, Welfare Geography and the Changing World of Welfare Municipalities: Municipal Social Spending in Denmark and South Korea analyzed), Professor, Department of Social Welfare, Namseoul University, South Korea

Igor Jovanoski (2011, A Transatlantic Political Culture Clash? Divergent Conceptions of Sovereignty and the EU-US Relations), Lecturer, University American College Skopje, Macedonia

Bettina Kohlrausch (2007, A Ticket to Work? Labour Markets and Life Courses: Policies for the Young Unemployed in Britain and Germany), Researcher (tenured), Research Institute for Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany

Regine Köller (2006, Retirement - More Time for Quality of Life?), Researcher, Institute for Social Research and Social Policy, Cologne, Germany

Daniela Kroos (2008, Between Autonomy and Risk. Individualised Jobs and Labour Market Institutions in Germany and France), Researcher, Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance, Bonn, Germany

Kathrin Leuze (2007, Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road? Comparing the Institutional Embeddedness of Graduate Careers in Germany and Britain), Junior Professor of Sociology of Education, Free University of Berlin, and WZB, Germany

Erica Marat (2006, Domestic Sources of Regional Alignment in the Postcolonialism: A Study of Security Policies in the Post-Soviet Central Asian States), Researcher, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US/Uppsala University, Sweden

Nadja Meisterhans (2007, A Constitution for World Society? Establishing Authority through the Constitutionalization of Human Rights), Researcher, University of Flensburg, Germany

Andreas Obermaier (2007, The End of the Principle of Territoriality? The Impact of European Court of Justice Rulings in the Domain of Patient Mobility on Germany, France and the United Kingdom), Scientific Officer, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Luicy Pedroza Espinoza (2011, The Creative Destruction of Citizenship. On how Democracies Debate the Enfranchisement of Settled Immigrants and Redefine Citizenship in Doing so), Research Associate, Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary

Ania Plomien (2007, Poland's Accession to the European Union and the Labour Market Politics and Policies Pertaining to Women's Employment), Researcher, Department of Social Policy, LSE, United Kingdom

Elisabeth Reichart (2006, Division of Labour in East and West German Couples in the 1990s: Establishment or Change of the Male Breadwinner Model?), Researcher, German Institute for Adult Education, Bonn, Germany

Christian Reisinger (2011, A Typology of Post-Conflict Environments), Consultant, ClimatePartner, München, Germany

Thomas Richter (2008, Authoritarian Rule, Material Resources, and Foreign Trade Reforms: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan between 1970 and 2003), Researcher, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, Germany

Barbara Rinken (2009, Scopes for Family and Gender Norm Construction Processes: Single Parents with East- and West-German Background), Researcher and Women’s Representative, University of Applied Sciences Bremen, Germany

Claudia Ruddat (2011, The Discourse on Hartz IV – Determinants of Successful Labour Market Reforms), Research Associate, Social Sciences Division, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany

Patrick Sachweh (2009, The Legitimation of Social Inequality in the Welfare State), Researcher, Institute for Social and Political Analysis, Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Andrea Schapper (2011, From the Global to the Local: A Governance
Case Study on the Implementation of Children’s Rights in Bangladesh), Researcher, International Organizations, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany

Reinhard Schunck (2011, Immigrant Integration and Transnational Activities), Research Associate, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Susanne Strauß (2007, Volunteering - Pathway to the Labour Market or Dead-end? The Interrelation Between Unemployment and Volunteering in Germany and Great Britain), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tübingen, Germany

Christopher Swader (2008, Transformation to a Market Economy and Changing Social Values in China, Russia, and Eastern Germany), Assistant Professor of Sociology, NRU-HSE, Moscow, Russia

Larysa Tamilina (2009, The Impact of Welfare States on Social Capital: Reformulating the Crowding-out Hypothesis), Lecturer, Odessa State Economic University, Ukraine

Lars Thomann (2008, Conditions and Perspectives of Successful Compliance with International Labour Standards), Researcher, Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Germany

Boris Traue (2008, The 'Coached' Self and its Counselors - Professions and Biography in Post-Industrial Societies), Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Christian Völkel (2011, The Political Origins of Human Development. State Formation, Institutional Persistence and Long-Run Educational Development in Latin America), Analyst, International Crisis Group, Colombia

Volha Vysotskaya (2010, Responses to the Changing Phenomenon of the Highly Skilled Labour Mobility), Research Associate, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Alexandra Wangler (2011, Intergenerational Dynamics of Identity Formation: The Case of the Ukrainian Minority in Poland), Research Associate, University of Bremen, Germany

Nina Wichmann (2006, The European Union as an External Actor in the  Democratization Process of Serbia and Croatia), Deputy Head, Goethe Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Sonja Wrobel (2007, Necessary and Just? The Legitimation of Pension Reforms in Germany and France), Research Program Officer, Unit for Social Sciences and Humanities, Ministry of Science, State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, Germany

Hao Yuan (2008, Subjective Well-Being in Transition: A Comparison between China and East Germany), Lecturer, Shanghai University, China

Name, current position, current institution

 

Volker Balli, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Trento, Italy

Sebastian Büttner, Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Jesse Crane-Seeber, Postdoctoral Fellow, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, US

Katsuto Furusawa

Joanna Jasiewicz, Junior Research Associate, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany

Moira Nelson, Lecturer in Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland

Martin Noack, Consultant, JCLL, Germany

Adil Saribay, Assistant Professor in Psychology, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sergi Vidal, Research Fellow, Population Europe, Berlin, Germany

Lars Viellechner, Lecturer in Law, UB, Germany

Name (expected year of graduation, Dissertation Title), current position, current institution

 

Catherine Blair (2011, Adjusting the Age of Entitlement. Patterns and Trends in Recent State Pension Age Changes in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and France), Policy Adviser, Department for Work and Pensions, United Kingdom

Tine Hanrieder (2011, International Organization in Time: Fragmentation and the Vicious Circle of Reform in the World Health Organization The International Political Economy of Progressive Tax Reform-Thinking the Normative Counterfactual, Explaining Why it’s N), Research Associate, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science, LMU Munich, Germany

Oliver Hormann (2011, Ambivalences in Family Nursing—Limits and
Opportunities of the Provision of Care for the Elderly Generation), Research Associate, Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

Christian May (2011, Ideologies of Capitalism in North and South. A Cultural Political Economy of North-South Relations), Lecturer, Political Science, Goethe University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Christian Möllmann (2012, The Politics of Pension Fund Governance. The Making of Norms for Corporate Pension Provision in Transnational Perspective), Coordinator, Promotionskolleg "Global Social Policies and Governance", University of Kassel, Germany

Benedikt Rogge (2011, How Unemployment Gets under the Skin. Understanding Mental Health Impairments after Job Loss from a Sociological Identity Perspective), Research Associate, EMPAS, University of Bremen, Germany

Andrea Schäfer (2011, Investment in the Next Generation – A Comparison of Germany and Great Britain), Research Associate, Centre for Social Policy (CeS), Bremen, Germany

Nadya Srur (2011, Strategies for Labor-Market Integration of Highly Qualified Migrants - A Comparative Analysis of European Immigration Countries), Desk Officer, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Nuremberg, Germany

Susanne Tönsmann (2011, What is Citizenship for? Citizenships and Naturalization in Latvia), Lecturer, Political Science, University of Göttingen, Germany

Jenni Winterhagen (2011, Migrant Transnationalism and Integration: The Case of the Croatians in Germany), Research Associate, Research Center for Civic Engagement, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany