Sigrid Quack
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Sigrid Quack | |
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| Alma mater | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology of organisations, Sociology of regulation and law, Comparative and transnational sociology |
| Institutions | University of Duisburg-Essen, Brown University, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, |
Sigrid Quack (born 17 July 1958) is a German social scientist working in the field of comparative sociology. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she is the Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research.[1] Quack was a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University.[2][3]
Quack studied sociology in Paris and Berlin. Her doctorate was awarded by the Free University of Berlin in 1992 on the topic of dynamics of part-time work,[4] and she subsequently worked at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.[5] In 2007, she received her habilitation for scholarship on cross-border institutional development, and became a professor at the University of Cologne based at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies from 2007 until 2013.[6]
