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Prof. Dr. Martin Petzke

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Professur für Historische und Allgemeine Soziologie

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Professur für Historische und Allgemeine Soziologie

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6. 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
martin.petzke@uni-bielefeld.de  
Phone
+49 521 106-6511  
Phone No. of Secretary
+49 521 106-6932 Secretary's Details
Office
Gebäude X C2-207 Locations Map

7. Faculty of Sociology / Boards and Commissions / Faculty Conference

Fakultätskonferenz (stellvertretendes Mitglied Hochschullehrer)

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Venia legendi for Sociology (Habilitation), University of Lucerne, 2019.

Ph.D. Sociology, Bielefeld University, 2012.

M.A. Sociology, Unversity of Trier, 2005.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Since April 2024
Professor of Historical and General Sociology, Bielefeld University.

November 2020 - April 2024
Professor of Historical Sociology, Bielefeld University.

November 2014 - October 2020
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, University of Lucerne.

September 2018 - August 2019
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Sociology, Columbia University.

February 2018 - August 2018
Visiting Scholar, Ralph Bunche Institute, Graduate Center, CUNY.

January 2015 - July 2015
Substitute Professor of General Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, University of Lucerne.

January 2013 - April 2013
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Sociology, Boston University.

October 2010 - October 2014
Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology, University of Lucerne.

October 2007 - September 2010
Stipendiary Doctoral Researcher, Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, Research Group: "World Society."

June 2006 - September 2007
Research Assistant, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Bielefeld University.

October 2005 - April 2006
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Government, University of Essex.

Current research topics

Martin Petzke’s research investigates the ways in which social-scientific expertise, statistics, and numerical indicators shape, intervene in, and transform fields of specialized practice. His work is focusing on

- the role of religious statistics in the emergence and perpetuation of global evangelical missions since the nineteenth century and how such quantitative perspectives have had an impact on other religions encountered in the mission field;

- the political measurement of immigrant integration and its effects on integration offices in German bureaucracies;

- the activities of the Verein für Sozialpolitik and missionaries in both the metropole and the colonies of the German Empire and how these activities shaped the construction of the worker question and the "Kulturkampf" as two foundational debates in the formation of the German nation state.