Vita Petra Dannecker

• Since March 2010 Professor and Head of Deparmtent at the Department of Development Studies  

• October 2008 – March 2010 Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Vienna. Teaching at the interdisciplinary project 'Development Studies'   

• October 2007 - September 2008 scientific Staffmember at the German Development Institute (DIE) at Bonn, coordinating the research conducted by the GIZ 

• August 1998 - September 2007 Assistant at the Faculty of Sociology, Research Focus on Development Sociology and Social Anthropology. Fieldresearch in Malaysia, Bangladesh and the Philippines, as well as teaching at Universities in Sudan and Sri Lanka  an der Fakultät für Soziologie, Forschungsschwerpunkt Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie. Feldforschungsaufenthalte in Malaysia, Bangladesch und den Philippinen sowie Lehrtätigkeiten im Sudan und Sri Lanka

• June 1998 Doctorate at the Graduate College „Market, State and Ethnicity“, at the University of Bielefeld (Development Sociology).

• July 1993 Diploma Degree at the University of Konstanz in Political Science, Sociology and Anglistic