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Dr. Anna Schnitzer

recent publications

academic career

• since 10/2019 postdoc researcher at the Institute for School Pedagogy and Primary School Didactics at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
• since 2018 working on a habilitation project on “Memory and Family History(ies) in Migration”
• 2015 to 2019 Senior research assistant at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich
• 09/2015 Defending her doctorate at the University of Zurich on “Multilingualism as social practice - Situative and linguistic-biographical (re-) constructions of difference and belonging among young people in a multilingual context”
• 2012 to 2016 Collaboration on the research project “Participation of children and young people in Switzerland” at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich
• 2009 to 2015 Research assistant at the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Zurich
• 2007 to 2009 Research assistant at the German Youth Institute in Munich and at the Halle (Saale) branch in a project to research cooperation between school and non-school stakeholders and to evaluate various federal programs against right-wing extremism
• 2005 to 2007 freelance work in the fields of school development and prevention of right-wing extremism (qualitative social research); also freelance work as a sworn translator for the French language
• 2004 graduated with an M.A. in sociology, philosophy and specialized French translation from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Université de l'Océan Indien, St. Denis (La Réunion)

research focus

• research on education, migration and inequality, including linguistic diversity in a migration society, remembrance and memory in context of escape and migration, participation oppurtunities for children and youths
• methods of qualitative reconstrucitve social research, including ethnography and biographical analyses research approaches

scientific offices

• member of the selected spokesperson for the DGS-section "research on biography" sind 2021
• editor amongst others of the journal "Gesellschaft - Individuum - Sozialisation (GISo). Zeitschrift für Sozialisationsforschung." since 2020. Online: https://www.giso-journal.ch/   
• editor amongst others of the series "Qualitative Fall- und Prozessanalysen. Biographie – Interaktion – soziale Welten." since 2018. More informationen: https://shop.budrich-academic.de/produkt/reihe-qualitative-fall-und-prozessanalysen/   
• member of the scientific young talent advisory board of the publisher Barbara Budrich since 2019
• elected representative of the research assistants on the faculty board of the Philosphical faculty III, social studies
• different offices as reviewer, for example on the Swiss Nationalfond (SNF), Sparkling Science (Austria), Discussion on research on children and youths, International Journal for Mulilingualism, Language and Education, Social Problems, journal of Biographieforschung, Orial Hsitory and BIOS (analyses of biographies), journal of pedagogy
• member of the scientific advisory group of the SNF-project SPARTAVIAS, PH Graubünden, 2019-2023
• member of the advisory group of the project "Wir reden mit", Plan Swiss, 2015-2018

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