PD Dr. Lena Inowlocki is research consultant in the EthnoGeneration project “The Chances of the Second Generation in Families of Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Intergenerational and Gender Aspects of Quality of Life Processes“.

Previously, she was also part of the team that applied for and cooperated in the EU project on “Self employment activities concerning women and minorities: Their success or failure in relation to social citizenship policies“, Frankfurt University and 7 partner universities (1997- 2000).
She coordinates two international projects, in cooperation with the department of social sciences at J. W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt:

“Trans-Atlantic Perspectives on Adolescence and Immigration: Building an Inter-University Study-Group on Research Strategies and Policy Recommendations“, with the University of Houston/Texas and the Graduate Center of City University of New York (2004-5), funded by German American Science Relations in the Donors’ Foundation for German Science,
“Les conjugalités mixtes des descendents d’immigrés en Allemagne et en France“ (2004-5), the German part of a comparative study on intercultural couples and families, social participation and citizenship with Dr. Beate Collet, Université Lumière Lyon 2, funded by Prof. Dominique Schnapper, recipient of the Prix Balzan.

Her main areas of research are migration, gender, biography, family, adolescence and processes of cultural transformation, policies and citizenship.

Between April 2002 and February 2004, she was acting professor for the sociology of family and youth at the department of social sciences at Frankfurt University. From April 2001 until March 2002, she developed a research focus on conflict resolution in democracies at the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt/Main. From 1994 until 2000, she was assistant professor at the chair of Prof. Dr. Ursula Apitzsch, at the department of social sciences at Frankfurt University. Before that, she was researcher and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
She received her degrees at the University of Magdeburg (Privatdozentin in Sociology) and the University of Kassel (Dr. phil.).
She is active member and on the extended board of the Section Biographical Research of the German Sociological Association and has planned several international conferences of the Section. Since 1990, she is board member of the Research Committee “Biography and Society” in the International Sociological Association (ISA) and has regularly planned sessions at the ISA world congresses. Together with colleagues at the Moscow Academy of Sciences, she edits a bilingual russian-english social science journal („INTER“).
Recent publications:
“Interculturality in the University: what’s new in Germany”, with Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar and Felicia Herrschaft, in: Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat, Ursula Apitzsch (Hrsg.): Biographical methods and professional practice: an international perspective. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2004
“Quest and Query: Interpreting a Biographical Interview with a Turkish Woman Laborer in Germany”, with Nevâl Gültekin and Helma Lutz, FQS - Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung 4(3) 2003 (Forum: Qualitative Social Research, http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs.htm)
Kritische Theoriebildung zu Antisemitismus, Rassismus und Reaktionen auf Einwanderung“, in: Alex Demirovic (Hrsg.): Modelle kritischer Gesellschaftstheorie. Traditionen und Perspektiven der Kritischen Theorie. Stuttgart Weimar: Metzler Verlag, 2003
„Was bedeuten Geschichte und Religion nach der Shoah? Paradoxien und Reflexivität in Bildungsprozessen“ ZBBS 2/2002
Traditionalität als reflexiver Prozeß: Großmütter, Mütter und Töchter in jüdischen Displaced-Persons-Familien. Eine biographieanalytische und wissenssoziologische Untersuchung. Habilitationsschrift, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, April 2001 (forthcoming at Philo-Verlag, Berlin)
Jugendgewalt und Rechtsextremismus (with Volker Teichert), in: Friedensgutachten 2001. Reinhard Mutz, Bruno Schoch and Ulrich Ratsch (eds.), Münster: LIT 2001
Sich in die Geschichte hineinreden. Biographische Fallanalysen rechtsextremer Gruppenzugehörigkeit. Frankfurt/M: Cooperative Verlag, Reihe Migration und Kultur, 2000
Biographical analysis: A ‚German‘ school? (with Ursula Apitzsch). In: Prue Chamberlayne, Joanna Bornat and Tom Wengraf (Hg): The Biographical Turn in Social Science: comparative issues and examples. London, New York: Routledge 2000
Doing ‘Being Jewish’: Constitution of ‘Normality’ in Families of Jewish Displaced Persons in Germany. In: Roswitha Breckner, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Ingrid Miethe (eds.): Biographies and the Division of Europe. Experience, Action and Change on the ‘Eastern Side’. Opladen: Leske+ Budrich 2000
Hard Labor. The ‚Biographical Work‘ of a Turkish Migrant Woman in Germany (with Helma Lutz). Women in Transit. Between Tradition and Transformation. Special Issue of the European Journal for Women´s Studies. London: Sage, 2000