Team > Dr. Florian Stoll
Dr. Florian Stoll
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology
Professional Experience Record
- 09/2019-10/2019: Collaborator of the project “The Space and Role of Political Science in the Evolving Democratic Transformation in Africa” at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala (Project leader Prof. Liisa Laakso). Collection & evaluation of data on Kenya
- 07/2019-09/2019: Field research in Kenya/Cooperation with the project “Biographies of the Middle Classes: Experiences of Space over the Course of a Lifetime” (Project A05 of the Special Research Area 1265 “Re-Figurations of Spaces”/ TU Berlin)
- 05/2013-09/2018: Researcher in the Project „Middle Classes on the Rise - Future Concepts of the future among freedom, consumption, tradition and moral“ (TP3) at the Bayreuth Academy for Advanced African Studies (Project leaders: Prof. Erdmute Alber and Prof. Dieter Neubert (both University of Bayreuth)) [given leave 10/2016 – 09/2017 due to a Fellowship at Yale University]
- 10/2016-09/2017: Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University. Postdoc-Scholarship of the Volkswagen-Foundation for the project “Understanding the Diversity of Middle Classes in 21st Century Kenya: Social Milieus, Lifestyles and Meanings in Nairobi”. (http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?ref=91530)
- 05/2011-04/2013: Researcher at the Technical University Darmstadt in the Project “Local Conventions of Hairdressers: The Intrinsic Logic of Cities in Economic Practices” (Project leader: Prof. Martina Löw; Technical University Darmstadt)
- 12/2006-04/2011: Doctoral thesis on “Social milieus and their use of time” in Recife, Brazil at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (Evaluators: Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein and Prof. Dr. Hermann Schwengel)
- 10/1998 – 11/2006: Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg im Breisgau/ Germany
Projects, Grants and Scholarships
- 03/2017: (with Antje Daniel, Hennie Koetze and Henning Melber) Organisation of a Point Sud-Conference on „Middle classes, protest and social change in Africa and beyond“ in Stellenbosch (STIAS) (37 participants; March 17-21, 2017)
- 10/2016-09/2017: Postdoc-Scholarship by the VolkswagenStiftung for a stay as a Visiting Postdoc Scholar at the Center for Cultural Sociology/Yale University.
- 11/2008-04/2011: PhD Scholarship / Foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg
- 07/2008-09/2008: DAAD-Scholarship: Language course and research in Brazil (Recife, Salvador).
Field Research (out of Germany)
- Kenya (since 2013): 12 months since July 2013 (7 research stays). Regional Foci: Nairobi, Mombasa, and Eldoret.
- Brazil (since 2008): 7 months since July 2008 (5 research stays). Regional Foci: Recife, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Salvador da Bahia.
- UK (England and Scotland): 2 months fieldwork between May 2011 and April 2013 (4 stays). Regional Foci: Glasgow, Birmingham, London, and Edinburgh.
Associations
- Since 2017: Cooperation partner of Dr. Gunter Weidenhaus (Technical University Berlin)/ DFG-project “Biographische Raumkonstitutionen” (Project A05 of the Special Research Area 1265 „Re-Figurations of Space”/ TU Berlin).
- Since 2011: Member of the research group “Global Inequality, Social Classification and Existence“. Project leaders: Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Jessé Souza (Universidade Juiz de Fora).