Professor Monika Krause

Monika Krause studied sociology and political science at the University of Munich, Cambridge, and LSE. Her PhD in Sociology is from New York University. She has been a Junior Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld and a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She served as an elected member on the Executive Council of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). She currently serves as the Chair of the Culture Section of the American Sociology Association and on the Council of the Section on the Sociology of Human Rights of the ASA. She is the recipient of the 2019 Lewis A. Coser Award for Theoretical Agenda Setting in Sociology.

Key expertise: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, Knowledge, Expertise, Social Theory, Culture

Monika Krause's research addresses comparative questions about forms of expertise, professions, organisations and fields of practice.

Her book Model Cases. On Canonical Research Objects and Sites (Chicago University Press 2021) asks about the concrete material research objects behind shared conversations about classes of objects, periods and regions in the social sciences and humanities.

In The Good Project. Humanitarian NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason (Chicago University Press 2014) she examined the shared space of humanitarian relief NGOs.

She has also written on journalists, playwrights, psychoanalysts, conservation NGOs, and human rights NGOs. Her theoretical work develops concepts for sociological analysis and seeks to apply insights from a sociology of the social sciences to sociological practice.

Monika is part of the Politics and Human Rights research cluster.

Monika convenes courses on Key Concepts: Advanced Social Theory, Seeing like an NGO: Human Rights in Practice, Classical Social Thought and Modern Social Thought.