Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm

Room 216
14195 Berlin
Current positions
Since 2014 Head of the Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Since 2011 Professor of Sociology with a focus on Eastern Europe at the East European Institute and the Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
Academic career
Studies and academic degrees
2004 Habilitation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
1987 Doctoral degree, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1979 – 1984 Studies of philosophy and sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
1983 – 1984 Guest student, studies on history of social science in the 1920th at the Lomonosov MSU, Moscow
Positions held
2008 – 2011 Professor of economic sociology, Universität Osnabrück
2008 – 2009 Member of the managing board of the SFB 580, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena and head of the project on economic elites in Germany, Poland and Hungary
2007 – 2008 Guest researcher, WZB, Berlin
2004 – 2008 Assistant professor of economic sociology and co-manager of the project on East and West German business elites (SFB 580), Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
2001 – 2004 Research fellow, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
1997 – 2000 Research position funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Institute of Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
1990 – 1993 Research fellow, Georg-August-Universität (Institute of Sociology and SOFI), Göttingen
1987 – 1990 Research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Science, Berlin (GDR)
Scholarships
1994 – 1997 Post-Doc-Scholarship from the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, research group ʻInstitutionelle Transformation in the New German Länder’ (Prof. Wiesenthal, based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
International cooperation/International research experience
March 2017 Visiting Scholar at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow
Nov. 2016 – Jan. 2017 Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ISEES) at the State University of California, Berkeley
2004 – 2012 Cooperation with colleagues from the Corvinus University Budapest (G. Lengyel and B. Janky) and the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw (K. Jasiecki): See subproject A2, SFB 580.
2004 – 2008 Collaboration with colleagues from the Kings College, UK (SFB 580)
2000 – 2002 Collaboration with colleagues from France, Italy, Netherlands and Austria in the EU project (5th framework)/project coordination
1999 – 2000 Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge M.A.
Honorary positions and memberships
Since 2017 Member of the academic advisory board of the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
Since 2016 Member of the advisory board of the Institute for European Politics (IEP) Berlin
Since 2016 Member of the international advisory council of the Strategic Academic Unit for Social Development of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow
Since 2016 Member of editorial board of the Springer Serial ‘Societies and political orders in transition’ of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Since 2011 Students’ person of trust, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
Since 2011 Editor of the online journal ʻEmployment and economy in Central and Eastern Europe’ (emecon)
Since 2011 Member of the supervisory board of the journal ‘Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology’ (WFES)
2006 – 2009 Board member of the section ʻArbeits- und Industriesoziologie’ der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Member of the German Sociological Association (DGS) and the section of ʻArbeits- und Industriesoziologie’ and ʻWirtschaftssoziologie’ for many years, as well as a member of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Research Priorities:
- Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe
- Economic Elites in International Comparison
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Cohesion
- SME in East-West Comparison
Selection of Publications
Monographies
2007 Bluhm, K.: Experimentierfeld Ostmitteleuropa? Deutsche Unternehmen in Polen und der Tschechischen Republik. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
Editorship
2014 Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V. (eds.): Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe. Routledge. 272 S.
2010 Best, H.; Bluhm, K.; Fritsch, M., Silbereisen R.K. (eds.): Transitions – Transformations: Trajectories of Social, Economic and Political Change after Communism / Transitionen – Transformationen: Trajektorien des sozialen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Wandels nach dem Kommunismus. Historische Sozialforschung (HSR), 35 (2).
Refereed Journals
2016 Bluhm, K.: Modernisierung, Geopolitik und die neuen russischen Konservativen, in: Leviathan, Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaften 44 (1), 36-64.
2011 Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V.: Business Elites and the Role of Companies in Society. A Comparative Study in Poland, Hungary and Germany, in: European-Asia Studies, 63 (6), 1011-1032.
2010 Bluhm, K.: Theories of Capitalism Put to the Test: Introduction to a Debate on Central and Eastern Europe, in: HSR, 35 (2), 197-217.
Articles in Journals and Anthologies
2017 Bluhm, K.: Zur Genese des neuen russischen Konservatismus, in: Russland-Analysen, Nr. 330 (2017), 2-7.
2016 Bluhm, K.: Machtgedanken. Ideologische Schlüsselkonzepte der neuen russischen Konservativen. In: Mittelweg 36, Zeitschrift des Hamburger Instituts für Sozialforschung 25 (6), 56-75.
2016 Bluhm, H. & Bluhm, K.: „Bürokratischer Kältetod“ – Max Webers sozialwissenschaftliche Diagnose und sein anti-progressistischer Dekadenzglaube. In: Lehnert, Detlef (Hg.): Max Weber 1864-1920. Politik - Theorie - Weggefährten. Köln: Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie (Historische Demokratieforschung. Schriften der Hugo-Preuss-Stiftung und der Paul-Löbe-Stiftung, 10), 217-246.
2015 Bluhm, K.; Trappmann, V.: Corporate Social Responsibility and Executives’ Attitudes in Germany, Poland and Hungary, in: Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology 6:2 (12), 7-36.
2014 Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V.: The long shadow of the ´German model`: business leaders in social and institutional change. in: Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V. (eds.): Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe. Routledge, ch. 4.
2014 Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.: From ´deputy revolution`to markets for executives? Social origin, careers and generational change of business leaders twenty years after regime change. in: Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V. (eds.): Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe. Routledge, ch. 5.
2014 Bluhm, K.; Trappmann, V.: Varying concepts of corporate social responsibility: beliefs and practises in Central Europe. in: Bluhm, K.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V. (eds.): Business Leaders and New Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Europe. Routledge, ch. 7.
2014 Bluhm, K.: The social role of business in Central Europe, in: Aspen Review Central Europe, 3/2014, 72-75.
Working Papers
2015 Bluhm, K.: Economic Actors and Liberal Dependent Capitalism, in: Journal of Economic Sociology, 16 (4), 138-147.
2008 Bluhm, K.; Demmler, P.; Martens, B.; Trappmann, V.: Fach- und Führungskräfte in mittelständischen Unternehmen: Bedarf, Rekrutierung und Bindung. Institut für Soziologie, Working Papers: Economic Sociology Jena, 6/2008, FSU Jena.
2008 Bluhm, K.: Interessen in der globalisierten Arbeitswelt. Tagungsbericht der Sektion Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie, in: Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, 17 (3), 225-227.