Prof. Dr. Andrea Kretschmann

Prof. Dr. Andrea Kretschmann is Professor of Cultural Sociology and Dean at the School of Cultural Studies at Leuphana University. She is also an associate researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. Previous visiting professorships, research associate positions, and research stays have taken her, among other things, to the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) at the Kunstuniveristät Linz in Vienna, the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP) in Versailles, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna, and the Institute for the Sociology of Law & Crime in Vienna. Andrea Kretschmann's research focuses on cultural sociology,  political sociology, socio-legal studies and criminology.

Scientific career

• since 2021: Professor of Cultural Sociology at Leuphana University, associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch
• 2021: Habilitation at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, venia legendi for sociology
• 2019: Fellowship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies / Linz University of the Arts in Vienna (project: Sociology of Simulation)
• 2018: Visiting Scholar in the Visiting Professors Program at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre Georg Simmel, Paris
• 2017-2021: Research associate and head of the research focus „Staat, Recht und politischer Konflikt“ „Staat, Recht und politischer Konflikt“”Staat, Recht und politischer Konflikt” at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin
• 2017: WZB Visiting Scholar at the Centre de recherches Sociologiques sur le Droit et les Institutions Pénales (CESDIP) of the CNRS, Ministère de la Justice et l'Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles
• 2016: Short-term Fellowship at the Centre Georg Simmel, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris
• 2014-2017: Post Doc at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
• 2015: Managing Editor of the Journal of Criminology
• 2015: Visiting scholar at the Research Center for Human Rights, University of Vienna
• 2015: Postdoc fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (Bielefeld University)
• 2015: PhD at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (University of Bielefeld)
• 2008-2010: Research assistant at the Institute for the Sociology of Law and Crime (IRKS) in Vienna
• 2010-2014: Fellowships at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, the Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Sociology, Vienna and at the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA)
• 2008-2010: Research Assistant at the Institute for the Sociology of Law & Crime, Vienna
• 2005-2008: Studies of International Criminology (M.A.) at the University of Hamburg and Middlesex University, London
• 1998-2004: Studies of Sociology at the University of Hamburg

Memberships and Activities

• Co-editor of the journal Behemoth
• Co-editor of the Journal for the Sociology of Law
• Member of the Advisory Board of the Association for Law & Society
• Co-editor of the journal Kriminologisches Journal
• Member of the advisory board of the journal juridikum

Awards and Prizes

• 2019: Franz Xaver Kaufmann Prize
• 2015: Doctorate honored by the Theodor Körner Förderpreis, honored by the “Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte Oberösterreich“ 2015