Sociology of Europeanization

Sebastian M. Büttner is a sociologist with special interests in political sociology, sociological theory, sociology of Europe, transnationalization, and globalization as well as in cultural sociology and sociology of knowledge. Since October 2017 he serves as interim professor of Comparative and Transnational Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Duisburg-Essen. From October 2019 onwards he will be back at the Institute of Sociology in Erlangen as senior lecturer. Monika Eigmüller studied political sciences, sociology and economics in Leipzig and Madrid. Since 2015 she holds a chair for Sociology at Europa-Universität Flensburg. Since 2018 she is director of the Interdisziplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES) at Europa-Universität Flensburg. Her main research interests are the Sociology of European integration, sociology of social policy and the sociology of borders. Susann Worschech is a Post Doc researcher at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. Her research focuses on political sociology of Eastern Europe, civil society theory, democratization, protest movements, conflict sociology, and methods of empirical research.