Dr. Benjamin Neumann

Research Associate, Faculty 17, Social Sciences, TU Dortmund University

Vita

since 10/2020 Research Associate at the Chair of Sociology with a focus on Social Inequalities, Prof. Dr. Nicole Burzan

01/2019 PhD at the TU Dortmund, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology. Topic of the dissertation: “The government of parental leave. On becoming parental subjects in the context of governmentality and biopolitics”

2012- 2020 Research associate at the Department of Sociology of Gender Relations, Prof. Dr. Michael Meuser.

2014-2017 Collaboration in the research project “Fathers on parental leave. Negotiation and decision-making processes between couples and companies”

2010-2012 Student assistant at the State Institute for Family Research (ifb) at the University of Bamberg

2009-2012 Master's degree in Sociology at the University of Bamberg with a focus on: Population, work and family over the life course

2003-2009 Degree in Social Work / Social Pedagogy at the Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg (today: Nuremberg Institute of Technology) with a focus on: Social Work with families

Focus of Work

Gender/Queer Studies; Masculinity and Fatherhood Studies; Governmentality and Biopolitics; Sociology of Inequality; (Poststructuralist) Discourse Analysis; Performativity and Subjectivation Theories; Qualitative Methodology and Methods