Ute Tellmann has been Professor of General Sociology/Sociological Theory at TU Darmstadt since April 2019. She was previously Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Erfurt/Max Weber College. She studied sociology and political theory in Berlin, Bielefeld, Toronto (Canada) and at Cornell University (USA). After completing her doctorate at Cornell University, she taught general sociology at the University of Basel and the University of Hamburg.
She is interested in cultural sociological and historical perspectives that emphasise the close connection between the sociological discipline and the history of political thought, geography, anthropology and philosophy. Her way of theorising is characterised by close links with the history of knowledge and exemplary case analyses.
