{"id":23,"date":"2014-10-01T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T08:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielajauk.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2025-10-21T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:38:56","slug":"startseite-about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danielajauk.com\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of Akron and a Certified Clinical Sociological Practitioner. I am interested in the intersections of gender inequality and sustainability in the criminal legal system with qualitative and community-engaged methodologies. <\/strong>Most recently, I have started a new research project with a reproductive justice lens on system-impacted women.\u00a0I am also engaged in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and higher education didactics <\/strong>and co-host the podcast Why Sociology<\/a>? Qualitative methodology allows me the opportunity to interject marginalized group members\u2019 voices and experiences into literature traditionally lacking their firsthand accounts.<\/p>\n

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August 2023, Pic: Petra Gruber<\/p>\n

I moved to back to Ohio in Fall 2017,\u00a0 after leaving a 2 year appointment as assistant visiting professor at the University of Graz, Department of Education Studies<\/a>.\u00a0 I continued my professional journey as full-time Research Specialist at Oriana House, Inc.<\/a> from June 2018 to June 2019.\u00a0I helped initiate a new gardening program in a women’s facility together with community partners (Let’s Grow Akron<\/a>, OSU Extension Office<\/a>) and exploratory and evaluation work on this project has been published. I work closely and comparatively with Dr. Sharon Everhardt<\/a> and her prison garden team at Troy University, Alabama and together we published a book on Gardening Behind Bars: Clinical Sociology and Food Justice in Incarcerated Settings<\/a> with Springer in 2024.<\/p>\n

\"Daniela<\/a>June 2019<\/p>\n

I am also a freelance sociologist, specializing in qualitative methodology and can be booked as a research consultant for feminist\/social science projects. Since 2014 I\u00a0 am a research associate of the fabulous Institute for Masculinity Research<\/a> and Gender Studies at the Association for Men and Gender Issues Styria, Graz, Austria.<\/p>\n

I emcee feminist and\/or sociological\u00a0events and conferences, and am experienced in facilitating workshops and innovative educational formats in adult education settings (such as DisQSpace, World Cafe, etc).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>March 2017, Pic: Andreas Graf<\/p>\n

From 2013\u00a0 to 2017 I lived back in Austria (2-year Fulbright home residency requirement) after a 6 year stint in Ohio for my graduate work and was blessed to take frequent strolls through the forests with my daughter Amani (*Dec 4, 2013) and work for my Alma Mater and other Austrian universities. Life and family are took me back to Ohio permanently in Fall 2017.<\/p>\n

I have 20+ years of experience in teaching in the US and in Europe and believe in student centered, non-disciplinary, and inclusive pedagogy.\u00a0 I taught<\/a> a variety of courses in qualitative methodology, sociology, and gender studies at the University of Akron, OH at the Universities of Graz,\u00a0 Klagenfurt, Salzburg, and the Academy for Fine Arts in Vienna. I have just received the University of Akron Achievement Award for “Outstanding Teacher” Award (March 2022) and produce two unique teaching podcasts. More about my teaching here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>As guest speaker for an event by the Equal Opportunities Ombud,
\nGraz 2015<\/p>\n

I\u00a0earned my\u00a0Master in Sociology from the University of Graz\/Austria (2002) and have worked as feminist social worker (1996-2002), elected independent women representative to the city council of Graz (2002-2004), and project manager for a European 6th framework program at the Department of Sociology Graz (2004-2007). I\u00a0was elected delegate to the UN for Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS)<\/a> from 2011-13, and have recently gotten back into the CSW arena in 2022.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>At the UN General Assembly, Internship 2010<\/p>\n

I\u00a0graduated in sociology from the University of Akron\/OH in 2013 as a Fulbright student with my\u00a0dissertation entitled GLOBAL GENDER POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN THE UN: A SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF THE POLITICS, PROCESSES, AND LANGUAGE.<\/p>\n

\"2014-12-28The love of my life, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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