Dr. des. Kathrin Meißner

Short CV

• since 2024 Scientific Coordination of the DFG Research Training Group 2892 „Societal Transformation and Spatial Materialisation of Housing“
• 2024 Dr phil. in Historical Urban Studies ‘Stadterneuerung als sozialistischer Aushandlungsprozess? Anspruch und Realität an Kommunikation am Beispiel Prenzlauer Berg 1971–1989‘ at the Center for Metropolitan Studies/Technische Universität Berlin
• since 2020 Editorial board member of ‘Stadtgeschichte(n)’ der Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierungsforschung (GSU)
• 2019 Guest Researcher at the Center for Urban History/University of Leicester
• 2017–2020 Research assistant on the SAW research project ‘MedPlan – The Mediatisation of Urban Development Planning and Changes to the Public Sphere‘at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS)
• 2017 Research assistant on the DFG research project ‘Städtebau unter Franco und Salazar“ at the Technical University of Berlin
• 2016 Research assistant on the archive project of the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany „Reformansätze im DDR-Bauwesen? Zugänglichmachung und Vermittlung einschlägiger Archivbestände“ at the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS)
• 2015 M.A. Modern History at the Freie Universität Berlin
• 2012 B.A. History, Human Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Research focus

• socialist planning culture
• visual and communicative negotiation processes around urban design
• history of planning/urban renewal
• GDR social history
• practices of spatial appropriation

Recent projects

• strategies for equality and equal opportunities in the academic context
• labour law in university structures
• awareness raising for work cultures against abuse of power