Dr. Darja Klingenberg

• Spatially sensitive migration research: housing, mobility and sedentariness
• Racism and gender studies and the intersectionality of social inequalities
• Russian-speaking migrations in the 20th and 21st centuries
• Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora
• Food Studies
• Sociology of humor
• Biographical research and qualitative methods of social research

To the list of publications

Scientific career                                  

February, 2011 - November, 2018          
PhD at the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, title of dissertation „Living, after migration. Materialism, hope and melancholy of Russian-speaking migrant middle classes“ (summa cum laude).

July, 2009
Magister Artium (M.A.) Title of the master thesis: „Humor in Migration. On the function and meaning of humorous narratives in everyday communication of Russian-Jewish migrants“ (1.0 with distinction).

October, 2004
Studied sociology, politics and modern German literature in Frankfurt am Main.

Academic activities

Since October, 2019        
Postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Comparative Culture and Social Anthropology

March, 2019 - September, 2019
VW scholarship holder „Practice-based research phase after PhD“.

January, 2019 - February, 2019              
Postdoctoral research associate at the Chair of Sociology with a focus on culture and migration at Prof. Kira Kosnick at the Institute of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

November, 2017 - December, 2018
Research associate at the Cornelia Goethe Centrum für Frauen und Geschlechterforschung at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, HMWK research project on „Migrant women in early childcare in Germany and France“.

September, 2010 - September, 2016           
Research associate at the chair of sociology with a focus on culture and migration with Prof. Kira Kosnick at the Institute of Sociology of the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

July, 2009 - June, 2010
Research associate on a research project on the edition of the memoirs of the Jewish Frankfurt sociologist, politician and women's rights activist Henriette Fürth „Streifzüge durch das Land meines Lebens“ at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

July, 2009 - March, 2010
Research associate for the exhibition „Germany of all places! Jüdisch-Russian immigration to the Federal Republic of Germany“ at the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main.