Professor Annett Steinführer was appointed to the Chair of Sociology in Rural Areas in May 2025. The chair is based on an joint appointment with the Thünen Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry, and Fisheries.
Board memberships
Co-lead of the Working Group “Small-town housing: real estate markets, segregation patterns and housing practices” at the ARL – Academy for Territorial Development of the Leibniz Association (since 2025)
Appointed member of the German Small-Town Academy (since 2025)
Elected member of the German Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (ARL) (since 2018)
Elected member of the executive committee of the German Rural Sociology Group (DGS) (since 2016)
Elected member of the executive committee of the German Rural Geography Group (since 2013)
Appointed member of the Advisory board of the scientific journal “European Countryside” (since 2014)
Co-editor of the book series “Rural areas: Issues of local and regional development” (LIT, Berlin/Münster/London/Wien/Zürich) (since 2016)
