Studied Political Sciences, Sociology and Law at Frankfurt/Main, Southampton and Paris .<BR>1996 PhD in political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main.<BR>1997-2006 assistant professor of sociology at Wuppertal University [click here].<BR>2001 visiting fellow at Goldsmiths College ( London ).<BR>2003 visiting fellow at New York University .<BR>Since 2002 research fellow at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt/Main [click here].<BR>2007 Heisenberg-Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (DFG)