Publications

Monographs

Lower League Football in Crisis. Issues of Organisation and Legitimacy in England and Germany. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (Dissertation/PhD thesis)

Reclaiming the Game? Soziale Differenzierung und transformative Prozesse in der Fußballkultur Englands. Berlin: WVB, 2011. (Magisterarbeit/Master thesis)

Edited Volumes

Protest: Forms, Dynamics, Functions, CHAT: Chemnitzer Anglistik/Amerikanistik Today, Vol. 9, Trier: WVT, 2021. (with Mandy Beck and Cecile Sandten).

Journal Articles

"A Product Thirty Years in the Making: The Champions League, Organisational Legitimacy, and the Disenfranchisement of Europe’s Football Supporters". In: Soccer & Society, 2023, DOI:10.1080/14660970.2023.2194517. 

"The ‘East’ Strikes Back: Ultras Dynamo, Hyper-Stylization and Regimes of Truth". In: Sport in Society, 21(6), 2018, 883-901. DOI:10.1080/17430437.2017.1300389.

Contributions to Edited Volumes

"Red Bull's Investment in German Football: A Game Changer for the Bundesliga?". In: Chadwick, Simon, Widdop, Paul, and Goldman, Michael M. (eds.): The Geopolitical Economy of Football: Where Power Meets Politics and Business. Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2024, 167-175.

"From Kick-Off Times to Globalisation Critique: Moving Against Modern Football". In: Beck, Mandy, Cecile Sandten and Daniel Ziesche (eds.): Protest: Forms, Dynamics Functions. Trier: WVT, 2021, 75-91.

"Introduction. Protest: Forms, Dynamics Functions". In: Beck, Mandy, Cecile Sandten and Daniel Ziesche (eds.): Protest: Forms, Dynamics Functions. Trier: WVT, 2021, 1-10.

"Well Governed? Stakeholder Representation in German Professional Football Clubs". In: García, Borja and Jinming Zheng (eds.): Football and Supporter Activism in Europe: Whose Game is it?. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 89-120.

"Alive and Kicking? Fußballvereine in Deutschland und England als Orte von Vergemeinschaftung und Vergesellschaftung". In: Schürmann, Volker et al. (eds.): Bewegungskulturen im Wandel. Der Sport der Medialen Moderne – Gesellschaftstheoretische Verortungen. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2016, 151-168.

Media Contributions

"Leipzig. Là où tout a commencé", in: Der Fussball. Exploration d'une passion allemande. Guide de Voyage Euro 2024. Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2024, 110-119.

"Einschätzungen zu den Midterm-Wahlen in den USA", interview in TUCaktuell, 10 November 2022. Retrievable via: https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/tu/pressestelle/aktuell/11575.

"Analyse der US-Zwischenwahlen 2022", interview in RadioT, 45min, broadcasted on 20 November 2022.

"Le football en Allemagne de l’Est reflète fortement ce qui vivent les Ossies", interview in So Foot, 6 October 2020. Retrievable via: https://www.sofoot.com/articles/le-football-en-allemagne-de-lest-reflete-fortement-ce-qui-vivent-les-ossies.

Conference presentations and guest lectures

“The End of Coal, Transformational Politics, and Class: Post-Industrial Cultures of Civil Society in Rural England and Germany”, paper presented on 30 June 2023 at Making the City: Transformative Processes in (Post)Industrial Urban Spaces, 29 June-1 July 2023, Chemnitz, Germany.

“Spectres of the Past: Class, Democratic Legitimacy and Perceptions on Active Citizenship in Peripheral Regions in England and Germany”, paper presented on 23 August 2022 at ECPR General Conference, 22-26 August 2022, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

“A Protest Culture in its Own Right? Applying Social Movement Theory to Football Fan Protests”, paper presented on 17 June 2021 at Sport & EU Annual Conference , 14-17 June 2021, University of Rijeka, Croatia (digital conference).

“From the Streets to the Parliament: The ‘Emotional Turn’ in Politics and the Crises of Western Democracies”, paper presented on 12 December 2020, Workshop Managing Crises from below? Civil Society Initiatives and Social Movements in the Context of the Current Crises in Europe, 11-12 December 2020, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (digital conference).

“Towards or Against (Super-)Modern Football? Institutional Alignments and Disalignments in German and English Lower League Football”, paper presented on 4 July 2018 at Sport&EU Annual Conference , 4-6 July 2018, Edgehill University, United Kingdom.

“RasenBallsport Leipzig: A Game Changer for the German Football System?” Paper presented on 24 May 2018 at EASS Annual Conference , 23-26 May 2018, Université de Bordeaux, France.

“‘It’s All About Responsibility’: The Social Value of Lower League Football Clubs in England and Germany”, paper presented on 12 June 2018 at EASS Annual Conference, 10-13 June 2015, Dublin, Ireland.

„Vereinssport der Medialen Moderne: Sportvereine als Orte von Vergemeinschaftung und Vergesellschaftung“, paper presented on 22 November 2014 at Im Wandel: Sport der Medialen Moderne - Abschlusstagung, 20 November 2014, German Sport University Cologne, Germany.

“More Than a Club? Social and Cultural Functions of Football Clubs in Germany”, guest lecture given on 22 October 2014, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

“Clubs in Distress? New Alignments of Stake- and Shareholders in German and English Football Culture”, paper presented on 27 June 2014 at Sport & EU Annual Conference: Sport Systems and Sport Governance in Europe. Changes, Challenges and Multi-Level Perspectives, 26-27 June 2014, German Sport University Cologne, Germany.

“‘… And You’re Destroying Our Game’. RB Leipzig in Public Football Discourse”, paper presented on 25 April 2014 at Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FREE) Conference: From Habermas to Fanblogs: Exploring the Public Sphere of European Football, 24-26 April 2014, Ankara METU, Turkey.

Collaborative Conference Contributions

with Nieland, Jörg-Uwe: „Playing It Safe: Discursive Frames of Safety and Security in German Professional Football“, paper presented 12 March 2016;9th IACS Summit on Communication and Sport, 11-13 March 2016, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.

with Müller-Schoell, Till, Ninja Putzmann: “Sportpolitik als parteipolitisches Handlungsfeld: Deutschland, Spanien und das Vereinigte Königreich im Vergleich“, paper presented on 1 October 2015 at DVS Hochschultag 2015: Moving Minds Crossing Boundaries, 30 Sept -2 Oct 2015, Johannes Guttenberg University Mainz, Germany.

with Nieland, Jörg-Uwe: “Playing It Safe: Deutungskämpfe im Diskurs um die Sicherheit im deutschen Profifußball“, paper presented on 24 September 2015 at Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft Kongress 2015: Vorsicht Sicherheit!, 21 September 2015, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.   

with Michael Groll: “‘Good Governed’? Stakeholder Representation in German Professional Football Clubs”, paper presented on 25 October 2014 at Football Research in an Enlarged Europe (FREE) Conference: Whose Game is it? Supporters and Football Governance, 24-25 October 2014, Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

Teaching

Current and recent courses:

• A Nation Apart? Inequality in the US (BA, Winter 23)
• Back in Control? Britain After Brexit (BA, Winter 23)
• Clinging to the American Dream: White Working Class in US Politics and Culture (BA, Summer 23)
• Cultures of Protest: Social Movements and Political Activism in the UK  (BA, Summer 23)
• The US Culture War(s): Social, Cultural, and Political Impacts (BA, Winter 22)
• The Skeleton in the Cupboard: Class in Britain (BA, Winter 22)
• Unequal Britain: Social and Cultural Divides in Post-Brexit UK (BA, Summer 22)
• The Disunited Kingdom? The State of Devolution in the UK (MA, Summer 22)

Older courses:

• Tracing Brexit: Britain's Political, Social and Cultural Fault Lines
• British Politics in the 21^st Century
• Sport in British Culture and Society
• Organised Sport in International Perspective
• International and European Sport Politics