Prof. Dr. Kerstin Rosenow-Williams

Since September 2021 Kerstin Rosenow-Williams (Dr. habil.) has been Professor for Social Sustainability (focus area sociology) at the University of Applied Science Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in the department of Social Policy and Social Security Studies.

Between 2016 and 2021 she worked for UNICEF Germany, where she was responsible for research and monitoring of children’s rights in the advocacy and programming team. Before she worked for three years in the department of civil society engagement at UNICEF Germany.

In January 2017, she was awarded the venia legendi for sociology (habilitation) from Ruhr-University Bochum. Between 2017 and 2021 she co-led with Dr. Katharina Behmer-Prinz the research project “Human Security Standards in Germany's Refugee Regime“ at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr-University BochumGermany, where she also worked from 2011-2016 as a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer.

From 2007-2010 she was awarded a Ph.D. scholarship by the Ruhr-University Bochum Research School funded by the German Research Foundation and worked as a researcher at the Chair of Sociology (Prof. Dr. Ludger Pries). In 2011, she received a Ph.D. in social science (with distinction) for her research on Islamic umbrella organizations in Germany, which she analyzed from an innovative research framework based on organizational sociology. Her Ph.D. research was awarded the second prize of the Deutscher Studienpreis 2012 competition funded by the Körber Foundation, which supports excellent and socially relevant dissertations.

She studied sociology in Arcata, CA, USA, and in Bielefeld and Bamberg, Germany.

Her research focuses on children’s rights, international migration, humanitarian action, climate change and civil society organizations. Rosenow-Williams has published on these topics from a German, European, and transatlantic perspective.

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