Stefan Wellgraf is currently working at the Institute for European Ethnology at HU-Berlin within the framework of a Heisenberg Fellowship. He studied Social and Cultural Sciences in Frankfurt/Oder (2002-2007) and was subsequently a fellow at the Research Training Group "Berlin-New York" at TU Berlin (2008-2010). He worked as a research assistant at the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich (2013-15), at the European University Viadrina (2012-13, 2015-2018) and at the CRC Affective Societies (2018/19). He then substituted for a professorship in cultural anthropology at the University of Hamburg for three semesters. In his research, he ethnographically studied Berlin secondary schools (Hauptschulen) for several years and most recently action-oriented football subcultures.

Monographs:

Ausgrenzungsapparat Schule. Wie unser Bildungssystem soziale Spaltungen verschärft, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2021.

Schule der Gefühle. Zur emotionalen Erfahrung von Minderwertigkeit in neoliberalen Zeiten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2018.

Hauptschüler. Zur gesellschaftlichen Produktion von Verachtung, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2012.

Migration und Medien. Wie Fernsehen, Radio und Print auf die Anderen blicken, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2008.