Elisabeth Pönisch

Elisabeth Pönisch is a sociologist and researcher at the chair of Sociology of markets, Organizations and Governance at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and wrote her dissertation at the Institute of Sociology at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg im Breisgau. Her dissertation is titled “Die Ordnung der Zwangsgemeinschaft. Ein- und Ausgeschlossen im ‘Judenhaus’” (eng.: “The Order of the Forced Community. Included and excluded in the ‘Judenhaus’”). She was a fellow of the Leo Baeck Programme, organized by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Leo Baeck Institute London, and received a Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Study from the Claims Conference. Additionally, she was a fellow at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich between January and April 2015. Her research interests include the sociology of culture and organization, research on violence, research on camps, the sociology of Antisemitism, National Socialism and the Holocaust, and social theory.