Curriculum Vitae:
| 2001 - 2004 | Basic studies of Sociology, minors: European Ethnology and Education, at the Bavarian Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg |
| 2004 - 2006 | Advanced studies of Sociology, minors: European Ethnology and Education, at the University of Münster. Magistra Artium degree (German Master) of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Münster with the master’s thesis (in German): On the Interrelation of Poverty and Work. Changes in Poverty Discourse |
| 2007-2008 | Ph.D. studies of Sociology, minor: European Ethnology, at the University of Münster and research assistant within the graduate promotion of the Department of Educational and Social Sciences at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Münster |
| since 2008 | Continuation of Ph.D. studies at the Graduate School of Sociology of the Institute of Sociology |
| since 04/2009 | Research assistant at the cluster of excellence "Religion and Politics", project A10: Framing the Religious within Important Current Sociological Narratives of Modernity |
Function within the cluster:
- Research assistant within project A10: Framing the Religious within Important Current Sociological Narratives of Modernity
- Member of the study group Sociology of Religion
- Member of the study group Emic and etic perspectives on Religion and Politics
Publications:
- Hoffmeister, Dieter (eds.): Von Bettlern und Businessmenschen – Städtische Armut am Beispiel Münster. Lit Verlag, Münster 2007.
- Hoffmeister/Ballach/Schäfer (eds.): Armut im Schatten der Arkaden. Neue Fragen und Antworten im Anschluss an den 2. Münsteraner Armutsbericht. Lit Verlag, Münster 2009.
Reviews:
- Schäfer, Franka: Rezension zu Loïk Wacquant: Bestrafen der Armen. Zur neoliberalen Regierung der sozialen Unsicherheit. Aus dem Französischen von Hella Beister. Verlag Barbara Budrich, Opladen & Farmington Hills. MI 2009, 359 p. in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation 01/2010. (forthcoming)
Courses:
Winter term 2009/2010:
- Moderne und Religion in der soziologischen Theoriebildung. Do 10.00 - 12.00 R 520 (together with Hanns Wienold and Anna Daniel)
Winter term 2008/2009:
- Urban poverty using the example of Münster, together with Dieter Hoffmeister
Summer term 2008:
- Urban poverty using the example of Münster, together with Dieter Hoffmeister
- Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociology of social inequality, together with Frank Hillebrandt
Contact
M. A. Franka SchäferInstitute of Sociology
Scharnhorststraße 121
Room 514
D-48151 Münster
Germany
Tel.: +49 251 83-23197
fscha_02@uni-muenster.de
