Anne Waldschmidt [SEP] occupation
Anne Waldschmidt
Anne Waldschmidt (born 1958) is a German sociologist. She is a professor at the University of Cologne and teaches disability studies and sociology and politics of rehabilitation. She holds the first university position for disability studies in German-speaking countries.
Waldschmidt studied social sciences at the universities of Bremen, Germany, and Edinburgh, Scotland (1978–84). She worked as a social worker for a non-governmental charity organisation (1985–88), at the German Parliament as a scientific consultant in the field of genetic
universities of Siegen and Dortmund (1996-2000). Her second book "Self-Determination as a Construction: Subjective Theories of Women and Men with Disabilities" was published in 1999. In 2000-02 Anne Waldschmidt served as a professor of social sciences at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg. In 2002 she was appointed to a professorship of sociology of disability at the University of Cologne (Germany). In 2004 Waldschmidt established iDiS, the International research unit Disability Studies. In December 2008 the Faculty of Human Sciences