About the Person
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Academic and Professional Background
| Since 06/2026 | Research Employee in the Department of Sociology of Diversity |
| Since 01/2026 | Member of the steering committee of the “Crisis and Socio-Ecological Transformation” research network at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation |
| April 2026 | Ph.D. at Department 09—Agricultural Sciences, Ecotrophology, and Environmental Management at JLU Giessen (Dr. agr.) (summa cum laude) - Funded by a doctoral fellowship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation |
| 04–11/2025 | Fellow (Planetary Agency and Politics), Panel on Planetary Thinking, JLU Giessen |
| 02–04/2024 | Research visit with Prof. Dr. Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) |
| 2020/2021 | Parental leave |
| since 2020 | Associate member of the doctoral college “Crisis and Socio-Ecological Transformation” at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation |
| July 2019 | Award for the best master’s thesis of the year, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (FB11), University of Kassel-Witzenhausen |
| 2019 | Master of Science in Ecological Agricultural Sciences, University of Kassel |
| Since 2019 | Lecturer, including at the Universities of Giessen, Hamburg, and University of Kassel |
Dr. Sophie von Redecker is also consistently involved in practical agriculture and active in the small-scale farming movement, such as the Working Group for Peasant Agriculture (AbL), La Via Campesina (LVC), the Emancipatory Agriculture Network (ELAN), the Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, and the QueerEcologiesCollective (https://queerecologiescollective.org/).
She also leads workshops and gives lectures outside of academia on farmers’ relationships with the land, hegemonic and counter-hegemonic human-nature relationships, queer and agriculture, and farming against the Anthropocene (including at BuchBasel, the Brecht Days in Berlin, the AbL Soil Congress, the Feminist Futures Festival I and II, the annual conference of the Kulturlandgenossenschaft, and many more).