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  9. Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt

Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt

Benjamin Herges/Uni Bamberg

Contact

Feldkirchenstra?e 21

96045 Bamberg

F21/03.34

E-mail: carina.schmitt@uni-bamberg.de

Tel.: 0951-863 2734

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae(310.4 KB)
 

Publications

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Research

International comparative political economy and social policy, diffusion and convergence of social policy, quantitative methods, privatization of public companies, social security systems in emerging and developing countries, colonialism and social policy, war and social policy

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Academic positions

Since 2022 Professor of Comparative Public Policy, University of Bamberg, Department of Social Science, Economics and Business Administration

2017 – 2022 Professor of Global Social Policy, SOCIUM (Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy), Department ‘Political Economy of the Welfare State’ and ‘Methods Research’, University of Bremen

2015 – 2017 Associate Professor (Privatdozentin, tenured), SOCIUM (Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy), University of Bremen

2013 – 2014 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2011 – 2013  Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for Social Policy Research, University of Bremen

2008 – 2011 Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Transformations of the State’, University of Bremen

2007 – 2008 Research Associate, Department of Political Science, University of Marburg

2007 Research Associate, German National Statistical Office, Bonn

Education

2013 Habilitation in Political Science (venia legend), University of Bremen

2011 Dissertation (Dr. rer. soc.), University of Mannheim

2007 Magistra Artium in Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

2002 – 2007 Master Studies in Political Science and History, Johannes Gutenberg- University Mainz

Scholarships, Grants, Awards

2017 ERC Starting Grant, Grant Amount: 1.486.000 EUR

2014 – 2019 Member of the ‘Junge Akademie’ of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Sciences and German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (26.000 EUR)

2013 John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellowship at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University (60.000 USD)

2011 Fritz Thyssen-Foundation Best Paper Award (1st Prize) in Social Sciences in German-Speaking Countries in 2010 (1.000 EUR; with Herbert Obinger)

2010 Best Paper Award Politische Vierteljahresschrift (1st Prize): Best Article in 2010 together with Herbert Obinger