Christoph Maeder Unterer Schulweg 3 8280 Kreuzlingen Switzerland +41 71 678 56 45 christoph.maeder@unisg.ch www.phtg.ch/forschung http://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/export/IMG/Christoph_Maeder.img professor Lecturer in Sociology at the Universities of St. Gallen & Basel Professor at the University of Teacher Education Thurgau, Kreuzlingen Research Director since 2007 Sociology of Knowledge, Education, Organizations and Work, Social Problems, Ethnography and Qualitative Methods 1989-1995 Research Assistant at the Sociological Institute, University of St. Gallen; 1996-2000 Researcher at the HFS School for Social Work of Eastern Switzerland; 2001-2002, 2008 Guest Professor at the University of Vienna, Institute of Sociology; 2001-2004 Chief Researcher at the Institute of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen President of the Swiss Sociological Association 2006-2009; Member of the Board RN "Qualitative Methods" of the European Sociological Association since 2006; Member of the Board of the American Association of Applied and Clinical Sociology 2007 Member of the Scientific Board of the Swiss Competence Center for Social Research (FORS) President of the Publishing house SEISMO in Zurich