Verena Molitor

Associate Researcher, 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: 

• Molitor, V., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Case example: looking at Russia. Schule der Vielfalt, NRW — Rundbrief, 19(1).
• Quinan, C. L., Molitor, V, van den Brink, M., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Framing gender identity registration amidst national and international developments: Introduction to ‘Bodies, identities, and gender regimes: Human rights and legal aspects of gender identity registration’. Editorial. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law, 1, 1-25.
• Quinan, C.L., Molitor, V., van den Brink, M., & Zimenkova, T. (2020, Eds.). Bodies, identities, and gender regimes: Human rights and legal aspects of gender identity registration. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality, and Law.
• Molitor, V. (2019). 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. In: Abstract Book, 14th ESA Conference „Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging“, 20-23 August 2019, Manchester, 521.
• Vasilache, A., & Molitor, V. (2019). Das Zentrum für Deutschland- und Europastudien (ZDES/CGES). Lehren, Lernen und Forschen in St Petersburg. In V. Kruse V & T. Strulik (Eds.) Hochschulexperimentierplatz Bielefeld – 50 Jahre Fakultät für Soziologie. Bielefeld: transcript; 2019: 145-156.
• 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. 
• Zimenkova, T. & Molitor, V. (2017).  Approaching LGBTIQ‐Police officers: an easy-to-reach group? Paper for 5th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Session on Researching Intersectionality and Exclusion. ECPG, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, 8–10 June 2017. 
• Molitor, V., Pierobon, C. (eds.) (2014). Identities in Media and Music. Case-Studies from (Trans)national, Regional and Local Communities. InterDisciplines – Journal of History and Sociology, 5(1). 

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

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