Ursula Apitzsch

Ursula Apitzsch (born 1947) is a German political scientist and sociologist. Since 1993, she has been Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Frankfurt. Her research fields are cultural analysis, biographical research, migration, ethnicity and gender.

She obtained at doctorate at the University of Frankfurt in 1977, with the dissertation Gesellschaftstheorie und Ästhetik bei Georg Lukács bis 1933. In 1990, she earned the Habilitation. She is a member of the board of directors of the Frankfurt Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies since 1998, chair of the section on biographical research of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie 1995–1999, and member of research committees of the International Sociological Association.

She has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1992-93), Florence (1994), Rome (1998) und Bologne (1999).

She coordinated an EU research project, Self-employment activities concerning women and minorities, 1997–2001. She now directs the research project The Chances of the Second Generation in Families of Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Intergenerational and Gender Aspects of Quality of Life Processes.

Works

• Neurath - Gramsci - Williams, Argument-Verlag, Hamburg 1993
• Migration und Traditionsbildung, Westdt. Verl., Opladen 1999
• Migration, Biographie und Geschlechterverhältnisse, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2003
• Self-employment activities of women and minorities, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften., Wiesbaden 2008
• Migration und Psyche, Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2008.

External links

• Literature by and about Ursula Apitzsch in the German National Library catalogue