Verena Molitor

Research Associate, Project Manager of the Centre for German and European Studies

Research areas:

• Media
• Belonging and identity of minorities
• Queer studies/sexual citizenship
• Minorities in the police
• Gender registration
•  Qualitative research methods

Foreign languages:

English

Education:

• 2014 Promotion (Dr. phil.) at Bielefeld University, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
•  2009-2014 PhD-researcher Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University
•  2007 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Media Science, Bielefeld University
•  2004 Bachelor of Arts in European History, University of Mannheim

Work experience:

• Since 2009 Researcher and Project Manager Centre for German and European Studies (CGES) Bielefeld University/ St. Petersburg State University
•  Summer Terms 2015/2016/2017 Coordinator Start-Up Programme Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University
•  2011-2012 Research Associate VW Project "Central Asia and Xinjinang", Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
•  06/2008–02/2010 Coordinator Media Center Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

Publications: 

• Non-Cis* Citizens and Border Crossings: The Effects of the Heteronormative Gender Regimes on Practices of Border Controls and Border Crossing by Non-Cis Individuals (2019). In: Abstract Book, 14th ESA Conference „Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging“, 20-23 August 2019, Manchester, p. 521.
• Molitor, V., & Zimenkova, T. (2019). Loyalty, Overperforming and Imposed Expertise: LGBTQ* - Identities and Everyday Work in the Police. In J. Gruhlich and M. Seeliger (Eds.), Intersectionality, work and organization. Anthology in the series Working Society in Change (114-129). Verlag Beltz Juventas.
• Molitor, V. & Zimenkova, T. (2017). LGBTQI police officers going public? An interplay of gender regimes, LGBTQI identities, authority belonging and activism. Paper for 5th European Conference on Politics and Gender, panel on LGBTQI Rights, Sexuality and Politics. ECPG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 8–10 June 2017.  
• Molitor, V. & Zimenkova, T. (2017). LGBT-Police officers: An empirical study on everyday working life. – Zusammenfassung der ersten Ergebnisse. University Bielefeld/TU Dortmund – Working Paper 
• Approaching LGBTIQ‐Police officers: an easy to reach group? Paper for 5th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Session on Researching Intersectionality and Exclusion (2017). ECPG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 8–10 June 2017. 
• Beyond description. Country reports on Civic and political education in post-communist, post-authoritarian and “old liberal” Europe in dialogue (2011). Special issue, Journal of Social Science Education, 2, 2-7.
• Von Fremden Muttersprachen und Involvierten Außenbeobachtern: Die Konstruktion von Zugehörigkeiten in Deutschsprachigen Radiosendungen in Ostbelgien und Oberschlesien [Dissertation], Universität Bielefeld.
• Identities in Media and Music. Case-Studies from (Trans)national, Regional and Local Communities (2014). InterDisciplines – Journal of History and Sociology, 5(1).
• Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften: Institutionalisierte Kooperation in Forschung, Lehre und Austausch (2014), in: GATE-Germany (ed.): Bildungsmarkt und -Marketing in der Russischen Föderation, GATE-Germany Schriftenreihe Hochschulmarketing, 9, 124-133.
• Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften: Institutionalisierte Kooperation in Forschung, Lehre und Austausch: Das Zentrum für Deutschland- und Europastudien St. Petersburg / Bielefeld (2014), in: Hochschulmarketing Russland, Schriftreihe für Hochschulmarketing Band 9, WBV-Verlag Bielefeld, 124-133.
• The Representation of European Regionalism through Radio Stations Using the Example of German-Speaking Radio in Eastern Belgium (2011). In: E. Belokurova (ed.), European Politics and Society - Studies by Young Scholars, Vol. 3 (pp. 131-140). St. Petersburg: Svoe Publishing House.

For further information please visit the following webpage: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/personen/molitor/ 

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