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Dr. Kathleen Schlütter

Dr. Kathleen Schlütter

Research Fellow

Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
Strohsackpassage
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04109 Leipzig

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Abstract

Kathleen Schlütter is a researcher at the Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe). She is working on the shifts in knowledge production under the global condition, currently studying the example of “area studies” in Germany. She wrote her doctorate at the University of Leipzig in Global Studies on French higher education and research policy under Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy (publication 2024). She gained substantial adminstrative and intercultural expertise by working as deputy head of unit in French-German higher education management for several years.


Her research interests include Higher education and research policy within the knowledge-based economy, digital humanities, transnationalization, cultural transfer, History of Science and French History (20th/21st century).

Professional career

  • since 04/2023
    NFDI4Memory: Co-Measure Lead “Area Histories” (Task Area 4 “Data Literacy”)
  • since 07/2022
    Researcher within the project "Die Produktion von Weltwissen im Umbruch" at ReCentGlobe, University of Leipzig
  • 06/2012 - 03/2022
    Officer, deputy and acting head of unit at the Franco-German University (Deutsch-Französische Hochschule / Université franco-allemande), in Saarbrücken and Berlin
  • 06/2014 - 12/2019
    Editor/author of the news section "France" on the information and news portal Kooperation International (https://www.kooperation-international.de/)
  • 06/2010 - 06/2012
    Scientific officer at the Kompetenzschule ELSYS (Research Academy Leipzig)

Education

  • 10/2011 - 05/2022
    PhD in Global Studies, Title: "French Higher Education and Research Policy 2002-2012: Between global ambitions and national implementations" ("Die französische Hochschul- und Forschungspolitik 2002-2012: zwischen globalem Anspruch und nationaler Umsetzung", summa cum laude), International PhD training program "Global and Area Studies"
  • 10/2003 - 07/2010
    Magistra Artium in Kulturwissenschaften, Frankreichstudien and Journalism at the University of Leipzig and the Université de Provence

  • NFDI4Memory
    Middell, Matthias
    Duration: 03/2023 – 12/2026
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Global and European Studies Institute; Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
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  • Die Produktion von Weltwissen im Umbruch
    Middell, Matthias
    Duration: 10/2021 – 09/2025
    Funded by: BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
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more projects

  • Rozo Higuera, C.; Schlütter, K.
    The production of world knowledge transformed. First results on the dynamics of Area Studies in Germany (2003-2025) (2024)
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.36730/2024.1.dhdl.2
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  • Ommert, E.; Schlütter, K.
    Digital Monolingualism, Archives at Risk, and Global Views on Open Access
    Trafo. 2024.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.58079/vym1
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  • Schlütter, K.; Rozo Higuera, C.
    Area studies in Germany: Investigating research topics, denominations and structures in continuous change (2023)
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  • Schlütter, K.
    Exzellenz und Égalité. Die französische Hochschul- und Forschungspolitik zwischen globalem Anspruch und nationaler Umsetzung (2002 bis 2012)
    Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2024.
    ISBN: 978-3-525-30218-7
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  • Schlütter, K.
    Pandémie et recherche française : le nouveau chapitre d’une crise sans fin ?
    AOC. 2021.
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more publications

  • Vortrag
    A research community in the global condition: Preliminary results on the dynamics of Area Studies in Germany (2003-2025)
    Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
    Event Organiser: Rozo Higuera, Carolina; Schlütter, Kathleen
    16/11/2023
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  • Panel
    The production of world knowledge transformed: Area studies in Europe
    Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
    Event Organiser: Schlütter, Kathleen
    28/06/2023
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  • Vortrag
    Mapping the Production of World Knowledge in German Academia
    Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe)
    Event Organiser: Schlütter, Kathleen
    13/04/2023 – 13/04/2024
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