Prof. Dr. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky

Professor

Department of Sociology

Sociology / Gender Studies

Office address:

Konradstraße 6

Room 310

80801 Munich

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+49 (0) 89 2180 - 3802

Office hours:

Tuesday 12:00 - 13:30
no appointment necessary
(Zoom meetings possible: Please schedule an appointment via email)

Other Positions

At the LMU Munich

October 2022 – October 2024: Managing Director of the Department of Sociology
Member of the Doctoral Committee Dr. phil
October 2010 – October 2012: Managing Director of the Department of Sociology
Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee at LMU Munich
Since 2009: Elected member of the FBR
Member of various appointment committees

At other institutions

Since 2019: Trust lecturer for Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Since 2019: Trust lecturer for the ELES Studienwerk

Since May 2023: Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the NS Documentation Center Munich
April 2021 – March 2025: President of the DGS (German Sociological Association)
Since 2020 (with interruption in 2022/23): Member, and at times Deputy Chair, of the Advisory Board of the ELES Studienwerk
2017 – 2022: Member of the jury for the Geschwister Scholl Book Award
July 2016 – October 2020: Member of the Executive Board of the Section on Sociology of the Body and Sport of the German Sociological Association
Since March 2013: Elected member of the Executive Board of the DGS (German Sociological Association)
2010–2012 and 2012–2014: Elected member of the Executive Board of the academic association Gender Studies
2011: Elected member of the Council of the German Sociological Association (DGS)
Appointed member of the General Assembly of the DJI Deutsches Jugendinstitut (German Youth Institute) and of the Advisory Board of DJI e.V., Munich
2009–2015: (Co-)Editor of the book series Geschlecht & Gesellschaft at VS Verlag
Member of the Advisory Board of the Student Sociology Magazine
Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Género – Sobre la igualdad y la diferencia
Member of the Advisory Board of Gender. Journal for Gender, Culture and Society
2004–2007: Coordinator of the Working Group Women Scientists at the University of Hannover
2002–2006: Representative of mid-level faculty on the Executive Board of the Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Hannover
Member of various appointment committees at Ruhr University Bochum, Leibniz University Hannover, and LMU Munich, as well as an external member at other universities
1999–2000: Mid-level faculty representative at the Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum
Since 1995: Active member of the Women’s Research Network NRW

- April 2021 - March 2025: Chair of the German Sociological Association

- July 2016 - October 2020: Executive Committee of the Sociology of the Body and Sport

- Section of the DGS- Since March 2013: Elected member of the Executive Committee

- July 1999 - October 2004: Councillor of the Women's and Gender Studies

- Section of the DGS Media and Communication Sociology

- SectionMember of the ‘Cultural Sociology’

- SectionMember of the ‘Sociology of the Body and Sport’ Section

ESA (European Sociological Association)
ISA (International Sociological Association)

Zeitschrift für Theoretische Soziologie
European Journal for Women's Studies
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
Gender. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft
Zeitschrift für empirische Hochschulforschung
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Interdisciplines
ÖZS (Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie)
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
DFG
European Journal for Women Studies
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Österreichische Forschungsgesellschaft
Social TheoryTime & Society
Zeitschrift für Frauenstudien und Geschlechterforschung
Zeitschrift für Soziologie (ZfS)
Foucault Studies
Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF)
Deutsch-Französische Hochschule
DAAD
Peripherie
Studentisches Soziologie Magazin
Gender, Work and Organisation
Dance Research Journal
Soziale Welt
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS)
Theory, Culture and Society
Sport und Gesellschaft
Feminist Review
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
ERC (European Research Council)
Social Politics
BMBF
Acta Sociologica

ProFil, Berlin/Potsdam
movement, Univ. Bielefeld
ment15
ProProfessur (Hessen)

Selected publications

2025

Karcher, Sinan/Gertzen, Marcus/Rosenberger, Cornelia/Schwarz, Johanna/Villa, Paula-Irene/Strasburger, Moritz/Rabenstein, Andrea/Pogarell, Oliver/Martl, Peter/Hentschel, Hanna/Horstmann, Alana/Silva-Leao, Douglas/Rüther, Tobias (2025): When Stigma Meets the Sheets: Sexual Satisfaction, LGB Identity, and Shame Proneness in LGB Individuals—A Quantitative Study. In: Sexuality Research and Social Policy. doi.org/10.1007/s13178-025-01137-0

Villa, Paula-Irene (2025): Afterword. In: M. Buscatto/S. Karttunen/M. Provansal (Hg.): Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture: Perspectives on Education and Work. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, S. 201-206 [online ]

Brewis, Alexandra/Currah, Paisley/DuBois, L. Zachary/Greaves, Lorraine/Hoppe, Katharina/Karkazis, Katrina/Pape, Madeleine/Villa, Paula-Irene/Wutich, Amber (2025): Gender, Sex, and Their Entanglement: From Scientific Research to Policy and Practice. In: L. Z. DuBois/A. Kaiser Trujillo/M. M. McCarthy (Hg.): Sex and Gender: Toward Transforming Scientific Practice. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, S. 241–265. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91371-6_12

Villa Braslavsky, Paula-Irene (2025): Gender und Queer Studies: Kontroversen und Missverständnisse. In: APuZ, 75(21), S. 41–47. [online]

von Bose, Käthe/Simon, Ali/Villa, Paula-Irene (2025): Cleaning as care work: conceptual<br></br>musings. In: International Journal of Care and Caring, Early View, S. 1-6. doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000100

2024

Resch, Marlene/Villa, Paula-Irene (2024): Familie im Wandel? „Doing Family" zwischen Konvention und Transformation. In: Zentralinstitut für Ehe & Familie in der Gesellschaft (Hg.): Familien-Prisma. [online]

Villa, Paula-Irene (2024): Man, Wir, Ich – Soziologische Autor*innenschaft zwischen Positionalität und Text-Eigensinn. In: SOZIOLOGIE 53(4), S. 388-396.

Fabian, Gregor/Fischer, Mirjam/Hamann, Julian/Schimank, Uwe/Thompson, Christiane/Traunmüller, Richard/Villa, Paula-Irene (2024): Akademische Redefreiheit. Kurzbericht zu einer empirischen Studie an deutschen Hochschulen. Hamburg: ZEIT-Stiftung. [online]

Villa, Paula-Irene (2024): Stammeln im Getöse. In: L. Gorelik/M. Schellbach/M. Zadoff (Hg.): trotzdem sprechen. Berlin: Ullstein, S. 89-106.

Villa, Paula-Irene (i.E.): Gendertheorien. In: F. Schäfer/F. Hillebrandt (Hg.): Theorien der Soziologie. Wiesbaden: VS Springer.

2023

Simon, Ali/Villa, Paula-Irene: It’s a dirty job: How life and work changed for cleaners in Germany during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Sociological Review Magazine [online].

Griem, Julika/Villa, Paula-Irene/Wiedemann, Carolin (2023): Public Science jenseits intellektueller Universalitätsansprüche. Eine Podiumsdiskussion. In: S. Jung/V. Kempf (Hg.): Entgrenzte Öffentlichkeit. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, S. 277-298. doi.org/10.1515/9783839463352-014

Connell, Raewyn/Seeliger, Martin/Villa Braslavsky, Paula-Irene: Power, Masculinities, Southern Theory: An Interview with Raewyn Connell About Political Sociology. In: Journal for Political Sociology 1(1), S. 64-75. doi.org/10.54195/jps.14227

Speck, Sarah/Villa, Paula-Irene (2023): Academia and Politics – Entangled, Yet Not the Same. GW's Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) [online].

Curriculum Vitae

December 2008 - present: Full professor/chair for sociology and gender studies at LMU Munich
2022: Recipient of the Helge Pross Price
April 2008 - November 2008: Visiting professor for general sociology and gender studies („Allgemeine Soziologie/Soziologie der Geschlechterdifferenz“) at LMU Munich
April 2007: Guest professorship at University of Innsbruck

Mai 2007: Habilitation thesis in sociology of gender („Das Besondere des Allgemeinen – das Allgemeine des Besonderen. Die Kategorie Geschlecht in der Soziologie), authorization to teach in sociology (venia)
Oktober 2006: Birth of daughter
August 2001 - März 2008: PostDoc/assistant professor at the institute of sociology and social psychology at Leibniz-Universität Hannover. Guest lecturer in Fribourg (Switzerland) and Innsbruck (Austria)
März 2001: Birth of son
1998 - 2001: Position as research associate and coordinator of the Marie Jahoda guest professorship for international gender studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
1998: Dissertation thesis (PhD) on the construction of the gendered body („Sexy Bodies“, 4th edition 2006 published with VS)
1988 - 1994: Studied social sciences (diploma) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Fellowship student funded by the DFG „Geschlechterverhältnis und sozialer Wandel“
1968: Born; raised in Argentina, USA, Canada and Germany