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Dr. Ralf Rapior

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1. Faculty of Sociology / People / Academic Staff

Research assistant in the department of historical sociology (Prof. Petzke)

E-Mail
ralf.rapior@uni-bielefeld.de  
Phone
+49 521 106-3976  
Phone No. of Secretary
+49 521 106-6932 Secretary's Details
Office
Gebäude X C4-218 Locations Map
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Nr. 411 im Gebäude X - Magistrale - Ebene C2

2. Faculty of Sociology / Research and Teaching Units / Unit 1 - Sociological Theory

Research assistant in the department of historical sociology (Prof. Petzke)

3. Faculty of Sociology / Research and Teaching Units / Unit 1 - Sociological Theory / Working Group Petzke

Research assistant in the department of historical sociology (Prof. Petzke)

7. Institute for World Society Studies

Mitglied des Vorstands

9. SFB 1288 "Practices of comparing. Ordering and changing the world"

Analogies between Comparisons as Mechanisms of “Departicularization”? On the Construction of Resonances between Colonial and Metropolitan Formations of Comparisons in National “Founding Debates” in the German Empire (1871-1918).

E-Mail
ralf.rapior@uni-bielefeld.de  
Phone No. of Secretary
+49 521 106-6932 Secretary's Details
Office
Gebäude X C4-218 Locations Map

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Dr. phil., Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2020

Diploma Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2010

Academic Positions

October 2021 –
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

October 2014 – September 2021
Lecturer (Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

February 2011 – March 2014
Stipendiary Doctoral Researcher, Research Training Group: "World Society,” Bielefeld University

Current research topics

Ralf Rapior’s research addresses the postcolonial critique of sociological knowledge. It examines sociology’s Eurocentrism, imperial amnesia, imperial entanglements, and imperial legacies. Ralf Rapior’s main research fields are postcolonial and global historical sociologies, with a specific focus on the social history and theory of empires, states and societies, multiple modernities, globalization and world society, and the sociology of sociology.