About Anne Scheer

MICRO-BIO

  • Born and raised in Berlin, Germany, I hold a Master's degree in Sociocultural Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Sociology form Freie Universitaet Berlin. Following my MA research about a legal-political conflict concerning indigenous land rights in New Ze...More

EXPERIENCE

  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    • Postdoctoral Fellow
    • Office of Population Science and Policy
    • May 2017 to Present
  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    • Project Manager
    • Sociology
    • October 2009 to July 2010
  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    • Junior Consultant
    • Civil Economics Department
    • July 2008 to January 2008
  • Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
    • Pedagogic Assistant
    • in-home care of foster children
    • April 2003 to June 2008

EDUCATION

  • Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Department of Sociology
    • Ph.D. (summa cum laude)
    • October 2009 to October 2015

    Dissertation focus: Sociology of Childhood, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Education, School Discipline, Michel Foucault (theories of discipline and governmentality studies) Dissertation title: Learning Obsolescence: Urban School Discipline in the Making and Management of Illiberal Subjects Dissertation defense: October 21st, 2015; summa cum laude.

  • Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    • M.A.
    • October 2002 to November 2007

    Major: Sociocultural Anthropology Minor: Communication Studies Minor: Religious Studies Field research-based thesis title: Strategic Uses of Indigeneity in Politics and Law – An Analysis of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Conflict in New Zealand

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