Stefanie Graefe is a private lecturer and research associate at the Department of Political Sociology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Within the SFB, she heads the sub-project C02 " The Dynamics of the Reproductive Economy: Forms of Appropriation in Global Fertility Chains". She studied sociology, political science, psychology and educational science at the University of Hamburg, where she completed her doctorate in sociology in 2006 on Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics. She has been working at the Institute of Sociology at FSU since 2008. She completed her habilitation in 2015 with a thesis on the relationship between age(ing) and subjectivity.
Her research focuses on political sociology, subjectivity and social change, critique of growth and capitalism, bio-, health- and age(ing) policies as well as qualitative social research. In addition to the SFB project, she is also leading a research project on the relationship between voluntarism, social reproduction and digitalization together with Silke van Dyk.
