Prof. Dr. Cornelia Bohn

Foto Cornelia Bohn

Professor of General Sociology

T +41 41 229 55 52  
F +41 41 229 55 65 
cornelia.bohn@unilu.ch

Frohburgstrasse 3, Room 3.B07

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Cornelia Bohn studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Bielefeld and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld in 1998 and her habilitation (venia legendi for sociology) from the Department of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Trier in 2003.

Since 2006 she has been Professor of General Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Lucerne. Prior to her appointment, she held positions as Associate Professor at the University of Lucerne, as Assistant Professor at the University of Trier (until 2003), as Chercheur associé of the CNRS at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg (1996), and as Research Assistant at the University of Mannheim.

Cornelia Bohn was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Constance (2014/15). She is a member of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR): "Iconic Criticism The Power and Meaning of Images," University of Basel (since 2009), and a founding member of the SFB 600 "Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day" at the University of Trier (since 2002). She received invitations as visiting scholar from the Toyo University, Tokyo (January 2014), the University of Chicago (spring 2009), the University of Constance (summer 2007), and Stanford University (2002). She is co-editor of the journal "Soziale Systeme. Zeitschrift für Soziologische Theorie."

Her areas of research and instruction include: sociological theory, historical and contemporary semantics, media theory, theories of the image, monetary theory, theories of individuality and the person, inclusion and exclusion.

Curriculum Vitae Cornelia Bohn