Short CV


Sophie Schäfer is born in Germany in 1987. She received her Diploma degree in Social Sciences – main focus on Political Science– at the University Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau in 2006-2011, while her thesis concerned the transnational crime in Mexico during the Calderon presidency. In 2009, she studied at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, where she focused on political campaigning and media in politics. In 2010, she did fieldwork for her Diploma Thesis in Mexico. Currently she is PhD Student at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, at the program "Democracy, Knowledge, and Gender in a Transnational World" (IPP Transnational)”. Now, she is working on her dissertation entitled: The Islam of democratic debates. To the discursive construction of internal threats and chances in German Parliament debates, which examines how Islam and Muslims are categorized in selected Parliament Debates as well as in media contexts. Furthermore, her research interests are involved in Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Membership-Categorization Analysis, Talk-in-interaction, Institutional Talk, Political Talk, Ethnography, Democracy, Media Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Culture.



Research Interests


Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Membership-Categorization Analysis, Talk-in-interaction, Institutional Talk, Political Talk, Ethnography, Democracy, Media Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistic, Sociology of Culture