Prof. Dr. Boris Nieswand
Professor of Sociology with focus on Migration and Diversity
Boris Nieswand studied sociology in Bielefeld and earned his doctorate in ethnology in Halle/Saale. He worked, among others, at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Saale) and at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen). Boris Nieswand's research focuses on migration and diversity, urban conviviality, and morality. His research perspectives can be characterized as reflexive and are normally based on an ethnographic approach.
Office
Department of Sociology
Wilhelmstraße 36 (Hegelbau)
1st floor, room 113
72074 Tübingen
+49 (0)7071 29-72948
boris.nieswand@uni-tuebingen.de
Secretary: Karolin Mattes
Office hours
Registration via Doodle. Due to Corona measures the consultung hours are held online (normally via Skype nieswand.tuebingen). Other communication channels are possible after personal arrangenment.
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Scientific Background
since September 2017
Professor for Sociology at the University of Tübingen
November 2015
Successful interim evaluation as junior professor at the University of Tübingen
April 2012 – Sept. 2017
Junior professor at the University of Tübingen
May 2008 – March 2012
Staff member at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen
First as a scholarship holder, then as a research assistant
April 2008
Doctorate (summa cum laude)
at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle-Wittenberg
2005–2008
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute Halle for Ethnological Research
1994–2000
Studied Sociology
at the University of Bielefeld (Focus: Social Anthropology)
Research
Research Projects
- In the framework of the SFB 923 "Threatened Orders" he works together with Manuel Dieterich and Damian Martinez in the subproject: "Threat and Diversity in the Urban Context. Ethnically Heterogeneous and Unequal Neighbourhoods in the Global South"
- Until July 2019, he worked on a research project on "Threat and Diversity in the Urban Context" within the SFB 923 "Threatened Orders" together with Damian Omar Martinez und Moritz Fischer. Within this context, the impact of threat discourses on unequal and heterogeneous neighbourhoods in Frankfurt and Murcia was investigated.
- From October 2016 to October 2018 he has been leading the project on the situation in and around refugee shelters in Baden-Württemberg together with Elif Alp-Marent.
Teaching
SS 21
Bachelor
- Einführung in die Migrationssoziologie
- Abschlusskolloquium (BA Hauptfach / MA)
Master
- Wann etwas einen Unterschied macht. Soziologisch-historische Perspektiven auf Diversität (mit Christina Brauner)
- LFP II: Diversität & Stadt 5 Years After. Die "Flüchtlingskrise/der lange Sommer der Migration" und ihre/seine Folgen
- Abschlusskolloquium (BA Hauptfach / MA)
Publications
Erstausgabe 2011, reprint 2013
2. Auflage Oktober 2015
September 2014