Prof. em. Dr. Theresa Wobbe

Theresa Wobbe is a trained historian and sociologist. She studied History, German literature, Psychology and Philosophy and received her habilitation (1996) in Sociology from the Free University in Berlin. She has held chairs at Technical University Berlin, the University of Erfurt, was DAAD professor at Duke University in the US and did research at the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna. From 2009 until her retirement in 2017, Theresa Wobbe was Professor for Sociology of Gender at the University of Potsdam. Her research focuses on questions of institutional change of gender at the national and international level, on the sociology of knowledge and gender inequality as well as political sociology of (supra-)national forms of inclusion and identity.