Dr Iris Wigger

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I joined the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University in January 2007, where I work as a lecturer in Sociology. Before that, I was a lecturer in the Sociology Department at University College Dublin (2005-2006), and a researcher and project-coordinator in the History Department of the University of Hamburg (2004-2005).

Following a training and work as a social worker in the late 1980’s, I took a BA in sociology and a MA in socio-economics at the University of Hamburg. I continued my studies at the University of Essex, from where I graduated with an MA in sociology in 1998. After working as a teaching assistant in its Sociology Department in 1999, I did a PhD in the historical sociology of racism at the University of Hamburg.

My main research and teaching interests are in the areas of Historical Sociology; Sociological Theory, Racism, Nationalism, and Imperialism; and the historic interlinks of Race, Gender, Nation, Culture, and Class as categories of social inclusion and exclusion.