Curriculum Vitae

• since 2013

  Speaker of the Jena Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Societies (JenZiG)

• since October 2012

  Full Professor (W3), Sociology of Markets, Organizations and Governance, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

• since 2012

  Senior Academic Affiliate at the Center for Research on Gender in the Professions, University of California, San Diego

• 2012

  Visiting Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

• 2009-2012

  Assistant Professor (W1) of Economic Sociology/ Sociology of Financial Markets, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

• 2009-2012

  Fellow in the Young Researchers Network of the German Research Foundation (DFG): "The political economy of the global processes of financialisation"

• since 2009

  Schumpeter Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation and Director of the future scientist group 'Sustainability and Financial Markets'

• 2007-2009

  Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Researcher [Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin], and Assistant Professor [Akademische Rätin a.Z.) at the Department of Sociology II and in the Research Training Group (German Research Foundation) 'Markets and Social Systems in Europe' at the University of Bamberg

• 2005-2007

  Researcher [Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin] at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne

• 2006

  Winner of the PhD Award of the University of Bamberg

• 2005

  Ph.D. in Sociology [Dr. rer. pol.] at the University of Bamberg [summa cum laude]

• 2002-2005

  Ph.D. student in the Research Training Group 'Markets and Social Systems in Europe' at the University of Bamberg

• 2004

  Marie Curie Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick, UK

• 2003

  DAAD Visiting Research Fellow, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

• December 2002

  MA [Diplom] Political Science at the University Frankfurt am Main

• September 2002

  MSc Econ [Diplom] Economics at the University Frankfurt am Main

• 1994-2002

  Studies in Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Law, and South Asian Studies at the Universities in Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg

Featured Publication

Activities

• RG Sustainability

• RG Visualisation

Publications

• The Politics of the Financialization of Sustainability

  Stefanie Hiß. In: Competition and Change 17(3): 234-247.

• Credit Rating Agencies

  Stefanie Hiß/Sebastian Nagel. In: Mügge, Daniel (Hg.): Europe and the Governance of Global Finance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 127-140.

• Responsible Investing as Social Innovation

  Stefanie Hiß. In: Osburg, Thomas/ Schmidpeter, René (Eds.): Social Innovation. Solutions for a Sustainable Future. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 229-237.

• Konfligierende Rationalitäten - wie Nachhaltigkeit die Rationalitätsordnung des Finanzmarktes irritiert

  Stefanie Hiß. In: Engels, Anita/ Knoll, Lisa (Hg.): Wirtschaftliche Rationalität: Soziologische Perspektiven. Wiesbaden, SpringerVS, 2012, 85-107.

• Warum übernehmen Unternehmen gesellschaftliche Verantwortung? Ein soziologischer Erklärungsversuch

  Stefanie Hiß, Frankfurt am Main, Campus, 2006.

• From Implicit to Explicit Corporate Social Responsibility - Institutional Change as a Fight for Myths

  Stefanie Hiß. In: Business Ethics Quarterly, 2009, Vol. 19(3), 433- 451.

• The Role of Ratings in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis: The Art of Corporate and the Science of Consumer Credit Rating

  Akos Rona-Tas, Stefanie Hiß. In: Lounsbury, Michael/ Hirsch, Paul M. (eds.) Markets on Trial. The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2010, Vol. 30A: 115-155.

• Globale Finanzmärkte und nachhaltiges Investieren

  Stefanie Hiß. In: Groß, Matthias (Hg.): Handbuch Umweltsoziologie, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag, 2011, 651-670.

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