Gender Studies Network at LMU
Interdisciplinary research and teaching on gender-related topics
Numerous disciplines at LMU engage in Gender Studies:
- Archaeology
- Educational Sciences
- Empirical Cultural Studies and European Ethnology
- Environmental Humanities
- Ethnology
- History
- Japanese Studies
- Medicine
- Musicology
- Literary Studies / Cultural Studies
- Political Science
- Public Health
- Religious Studies
- Scandinavian Studies
- Sociology
- Theater Studies
- Theology
Members
- Dr. Agnieszka Balcerzak – Empirical Cultural Studies and European Ethnology
- Prof. Dr. Julia Burkhardt – Medieval History
- Dr. Verena Marie Eberhardt – Religious Studies
- Prof. Dr. Irene Götz – Empirical Cultural Studies and European Ethnology
- Svea Gross – Political Science
- Prof. Dr. Verena Höfig – Scandinavian Studies
- Diana Aloyce Ishengoma – Public Health
- Prof. Dr. Annette Keck – German Studies
- Simon Kienzl – Germanistik
- Isabel Kimpel – Medieval History
- Caroline Kloos – Religious Studies
- Joanna Krajewska – Public Health
- Ba Linh Le – Public Health
- Katharina Luise Merkert – Religious Studies
- Prof. Dr. Ulf Otto – Theater Studies
- Dr. Victoria Pereyra Iraola – Sociology
- Prof. Dr. Gerhild Perl – Ethnology
- Prof. Dr. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati – Religious Studies
- Prof. Dr. Juliane Prade-Weiss – Comparative Literature
- Dr. Britta Schellenberg – Civic Education and Political Science
- Prof. Dr. Joachim Schiedermair – German Studies
- Prof. Dr. Laura Seelkopf – Political Science
- Sophie Seidler – General and Comparative Literature
- Prof. Dr. Veronika Settele – Modern und Contemporary History
- Ali Simon – Sociology
- Teja Šosterič – General and Comparative Literature
- Prof. Dr. Heidi Stöckl – Public Health
- Dr. des. Cynthia Stöckle – Medieval History
- Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa – Ethnology
- Prof. Dr. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky – Sociology
- Prof. Dr. Gabriele Vogt – Japanese Studies
- Prof. Dr. Ulrike Witten – Religious Education
Projects
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- BayForFamily
- Between commitment and control: vigilance in pre-modern Benedictine monasteries (CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance)
- Cleaning as care work (Co-Care)
- COVID and Care: dynamics of care in pandemic times. (Co-Care)
- Demography and Democracy: How Population Aging Alters Democracy – The Case of Japan
- digiMINT. Digitalization as an opportunity for women in STEM: School – University – Career
- Family in Film. Media as a place of negotiation of family narratives, values and transformations (ForFamily)
- Femicide. Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Historical Phenomenon
- IMPROVE_LIFE (ERC Consolidator Grant)
- NIHR Global Health Research Group on Violence Against Women and Children
- ReproMemes. Cultural Studies Approaches to the Memefication of the Abortion Debate in Poland (Comic Literacies)
- The Persistence of Evil: Analyzing Long-Term Transmissions of Justifications for Mass Violence
- Transformations of the normal? ‘Doing Family’ in post-traditional family constellations in Bavaria (ForFamily)
- Utopia as a Challenging Imagination of the City Religion and Urbanity in The Handmaid’s Tale
- Vigilance in Japan’s neighborhoods during the COVID-19 pandemic (CRC 1369 Cultures of Vigilance)
- Me, You and the Promised Land in Between. Religion, Gender, and the Western
- Precarious Retirement. Work and Lifestyles of Older Women
- Travelling to Seek Abortion Care: Abortion Travel and Support Networks for Pregnant People Seeking Abortion Care in Europe and Latin America (REPROMOB Subproject 2)
- 'Wa(h)re Mutterschaft'. An Ethnographic Study of the Aesthetic Practices of Mom Bloggers
Publications (Selection)
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- Balcerzak, A., Erbe, B., Gutekunst, M. Mehra, A., & Rau, A. (in press). Mapping Gender Struggles. Gender as Field of Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
- Bomert, C., Seits, M., Krause, K., Simon, A., Wezel, K., Ammicht Quinn, R., & Villa, P.-I. (Eds.). (2026). Care in der Krise: (Un-)Sichtbarkeiten von Sorgearbeit während und nach der Corona-Pandemie. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839435328
- Burkhardt, J., & Lutter, C. (2026). I, Helene Kottannerin: The Lady-in-Waiting Who Stole Hungary’s Crown (J. R. Lyon, Trans.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Krause, K., Seits, M., Simon, A., Wezel, K., & Bomert, C. (2026). Caringscapes der Corona-Pandemie. Transversale Krisen als Frage von Raum und Care. In K. Crepaz, C. Kircher, & H. Pechlaner (Eds.), Pandemie als transversale Krise: Rückblick und Konsequenzen für die Post-Covid-Gesellschaft. Bielefeld: transcript. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839473399
- Lützelberger, F., & Balcerzak, A. (Hrsg.). (in press). Abortion: Narratives, Practices, Discourses (Special Issue). Curare. Zeitschrift für Medizinethnologie, 49(1–2).
- Balcerzak, A. (2025). Grotesque, Absurdity, Cuteness: On the Interviewing of Argumentative Frames, Aesthetics, and Emotions in the Polish “War on Abortion.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture, (18), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.22029/OC.2025.1497
- Brewis, A., Currah, P., DuBois, L. Z., Greaves, L., Hoppe, K., Karkazis, K., Pape, M., Villa, P.-I., & Wutich, A. (2025). Gender, Sex, and Their Entanglement. In L. Z. DuBois, A. Kaiser Trujillo, & M. M. McCarthy (Eds.), Sex and Gender (S. 241–265). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91371-6_12
- Burkhardt, J. (2025). Power Couples in Central Europe around 1500. L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 36(1), 35–50. https://doi.org/10.14220/lhom.2025.36.1.35
- Pezzoli Olgiati, D. (2025). Utopian and Dystopian Cities at Work: Challenging Imaginations of the City in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. In S. Rau & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Religion and Urbanity Online. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.37172999
- Seelkopf, L. (2025). Invisible taxation: Women and the tax state. Journal of European Public Policy, 32(9), 2157–2169. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2491755
- Villa, B., Paula-Irene. (2025). Gender und Queer Studies. Kontroversen und Missverständnisse. APuZ, 75(21), 41–47. [online]
- Witten, U. (2025). Das Subjekt in seiner Intersektionalität. In C. Gärtner, M. Kumlehn, K. Lindner, B. Schröder, H. Simojoki, & J. Woppowa (Eds.), Handbuch Religionspädagogische Hermeneutik (pp. 409–421). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-164492-4
- Balcerzak, A. (2023). Angry Posters: Decoding the Political Aesthetics of Visual Pro-Choice Protest in Poland. Berliner Blätter, 88, 23–41. https://doi.org/10.18452/28001
- Götz, I., & Schweiger, P. (2023). Micro-Practices of Domestic Living: The Self-Care of Older Women in Precarious Circumstances. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 32(1), 15–40. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2023.320103
- Höpflinger, A.-K., Jeffers, A., & Pezzoli-Olgiati, D. (Eds.). (2021). Handbuch Gender und Religion (2nd revised and expanded ed.). Stuttgart: UTB. https://doi.org/10.36198/9783838557144
- Höpflinger, A.-K., & Pezzoli-Olgiati, D. (2024). Imaginäre Burgen und offene Denkräume. Eine forschungshistorisch inspirierte Stadtführung auf den Spuren von Gender und Religion. In L. K. Pokorny, L. Mörth-Nicola, & K. Tretina (Eds.), Blicklichter und Grenzgänge (pp. 91–110). Paderborn: Brill Schöningh. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657796922_005
- Kimpel, I. (2024). SchreiberInnenvermerke aus geistlichen Frauengemeinschaften des Mittelalters: Widmungsgedicht und Kolophon im Liesborner Evangeliar. In J. von Ditfurth & S. Steinbach (Eds.), Die Welt des Evangeliars—Liesborn und das Damenstift (9.-12. Jahrhundert). Liesborner Abteigespräche zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (pp. 107–121). Warendorf: Aschendorff Verlag.
- Schellenberg, B. (2024). Training Antidiskriminierung. Den Menschen im Blick. Bd. 2. Schwerpunkt: Sexismus. Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau Verlag.
- Speck, S., & Villa, P.-I. (2023). Academia and Politics – Entangled, Yet Not the Same. Culture Wars Papers, 39. [online]
- Stöckl, H., Devries, K., Rotstein, A., Abrahams, N., Campbell, J., Watts, C., & Moreno, C. G. (2013). The global prevalence of intimate partner homicide: A systematic review. The Lancet, 382(9895), 859–865. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)61030-2
- Stöckl, H., & Sorenson, S. B. (2024). Violence Against Women as a Global Public Health Issue. Annual Review of Public Health, 45(1), 277–294. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-060722-025138
- Witten, U. (2024). Lernen an Biografien im diakonischen Lernen – geschlechtersensibel betrachtet. Religionspädagogische Beiträge, 74, 45–55. https://doi.org/10.20377/rpb-1658
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