Prof. Dr. habil. Tatiana Zimenkova

Tatiana Zimenkova is Vice President for Internationalization and Diversity and she holds the position of a professor of sociology.  She received her doctorate and habilitation in sociology at Bielefeld University. As a member of the university Board she is responsible for questions of democracy, science diplomacy, international cooperation and antidiscrimination. Her research interests include political participation, sexual citizenship, diversity, norms and urban cohesion. She is actives consultant in transfer projects in the area of promoting and protecting LGBTQI* and minority rights in the context of communities, local governance, authorities, police and NGOs. Her current sphere of expertise and research touches upon the questions of democracy, inequality and participation from the perspective of the university governance.

• Amelina, A., Molitor, V., Schäfer, J., Vasilache, A., & Zimenkova, T. (2026). Vulnerable (im)mobilities between imperial legacies and colonial logics of war. Mobilities, 21(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2605054.
• Zimenkova, T., & Molitor, V. (2024). Queerness als Herausforderung? Institutionelle Notwendigkeiten und Exklusionen in der Polizeiarbeit. In M. S. Staller & S. Koerner (editors), Diversität und Polizei (pp. 133–148). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42565-4_7.
• Aunkofer, S., Fröhlich, M., Hinterhuber, E. M., Müller, K. A., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). Ungleichheiten aufdecken, Chancen entdecken: Gender and Diversity Studies und Hochschulentwicklung in der Pandemie. In Hochschulen in der Pandemie (pp. 182–199). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459843-012.
• Angenent, H., Petri, J., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). Things will never be the same again. In Hochschulen in der Pandemie (pp. 10–19). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459843-001.
• Angenent, H., Petri, J., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). Abbildungen. In Hochschulen in der Pandemie (pp. 446–448). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459843-028.
• Angenent, H., Petri, J., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). Hochschulen in der Pandemie. Impulse für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung von Studium und Lehre. transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839459843.
• Eelmaa, S., Grishina, Y., Hinterhuber, E. M., Odinokova, V., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). Reporting child sexual abuse: media guidelines (pp. 1–25). https://doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.19563.00804.
• Locker-Grütjen, O., Kleuters, J., & Zimenkova, T. (2022). International Students as Valuable Assets to the International Academic Community on Campus and Beyond, Experiences at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. In J. Kercher (editor), Internationale Studierende in Deutschland (pp. 12–22). DAAD.
• Zimenkova, T., & Molitor, V. (2022). Die Aushandlungen von Differenznarrativen: zwischen Essentialität und Exklusionspotential. In Dis/Ability in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Betrachtungen an der Intersektion von Behinderung, Kultur und Religion in Bildungskontexten (pp. 42–55). Verlag Julius Klinkhardt. https://doi.org/10.35468/5937-03.
• Zimenkova, T., & Molitor, V. (2022). Lokalexpertise und Narrative des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts: Aushandlungen in einem partizipativen Forschungsprojekt. In Raum, Resilienz und religiös begründete Radikalisierung (pp. 157–172). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839461075-009.
• Zimenkova, T., Petri, J., & Angenent, H. (2022). Hochschulen in der Pandemie. Impulse für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung von Studium und Lehre. transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839459843.
• Brandt, K., Durczak, M., Tiefenthal, G., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Deliberative Räume als Gegenentwurf zu rechten Räumen — das Projekt ZuNaMi. In Rechtes Denken, rechte Räume? (pp. 223–244). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451083-011.
• Karber, A., Sevdiren, G., Heberle, K., Schröter, A., Bartz, J., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Hochschuldidaktische Betrachtungen differenzreflexiver Lehrer*innenbildung. In I. van Ackeren, H. Bremer, F. Kessl, H.-C. Koller, N. Pfaff, C. Rotter, D. Klein, & U. Salaschek (editors), Bewegungen. Beiträge zum 26. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (pp. 567–579). Verlag Barbara Budrich. https://doi.org/10.25656/01:19269.
• Quinan, C. L., Molitor, V., Van den Brink, M., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Framing gender identity registration amidst national and international developments: Introduction to ‘Bodies, identities, and gender regimes: Human rights and legal aspects of gender identity registration’. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.19164/ijgsl.v1i1.971.
• Quinan, C. L., Molitor, V., van den Brink, M., & Zimenkova, T. (2020). Bodies, identities, and gender regimes: Human rights and legal aspects of gender identity registration. International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law. https://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/IJGSL/issue/view/92
• Rohde-Abuba, C., Vennmann, S., & Zimenkova, T. (2019). The Destruction of the Heterosexual Family? The Discourse of Opponents of the Gender Mainstreaming Educational Curriculum in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Sexuality & Culture, 23(3), 718–736. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09588-5.
• Schröter, A., & Zimenkova, T. (2019). Norm und Normalität. Herausforderung Lehrer*innenbildung - Zeitschrift zur Konzeption, 2(3), 47–62. https://doi.org/10.4119/hlz-2455.
• Zimenkova, T., & Jeliazkova, M. (2017). Beyond description. Country reports on Civic and political education in post-communist, post-authoritarian and “old liberal” Europe in dialogue. Journal of Social Science Education, 2. https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/issue/view/155
• Olson, M., & Zimenkova, T. (2015). Normativity in Social Science Education and History Education. JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 14(1), 2–5. https://doi.org/10.2390/jsse-v14-i1-1434.
• Zimenkova, T. (2015). Educating “Supermen” and “Superwomen”: Global Citizenship Education. In Childhood and Nation (pp. 229–252). Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477835_12.
• Zimenkova, T. (2014). Draft instrument for detecting post-Soviet and post-authoritarian dependencies in social sciences and humanities education. InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, 5(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.4119/indi-997.
• Zimenkova, T. (2014). Still an issue? Approaching post-socialist and post-authoritarian education. InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, 5(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.4119/indi-990.
• Zimenkova, T. (2014). Minority learners – Excluded from the narrative of ‘celebrating diversity’? Citizenship Teaching & Learning, 9(2), 201–222. https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl.9.2.201_1.
• Zimenkova, T. (2011). Between European and National Citizenship Identities: Challenges, Problems, and Soft Practices of Identity Building in Educational Policies. In J. L. de Sales Marques, R. Seidelmann, & A. Vasilache (editors), States, Regions and the Global System (1 ed., pp. 199–229). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845228501-199.
• Hedtke, R., & Zimenkova, T. (2008). The Talk-and-Action Approach to Citizenship Education. An Outline of a Methodology of Critical Studies in Citizenship Education. JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 7(1), 5–35. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/jsse-v7-i1-1054.
• Zimenkova, T. (2008). Citizenship Through Faith and Feelings: Defining Citizenship in Citizenship Education. An Exemplary Textbook Analysis. JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 7(1), 81–111. https://doi.org/10.4119/unibi/jsse-v7-i1-1058.
• Hedtke, R., Zimenkova, T., & Hippe, T. (2007). A Trinity of Transformation, Europeanisation, and Democratisation? Current Research on Citizenship Education in Europe. JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 6(2), 5–20. https://doi.org/10.2390/jsse-v6-i2-1044.
• Zimenkova, T. (2007). Die Praxis der Soziologie: Ausbildung, Wissenschaft, Beratung. Eine professionstheoretische Untersuchung. transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839405192.
• Zimenkova, T. (2007). 1. Soziologie ist... Das Besondere am soziologischen Gegenstand. In T. Zimenkova (editor), Die Praxis der Soziologie: Ausbildung, Wissenschaft, Beratung. Eine professionstheoretische Untersuchung (pp. 21–70). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839405192-001.
• Zimenkova, T. (2007). 3. Das soziologische Sprachproblem: Identitätsstiftung, Exklusivitätsbehauptung, Professionalitätsdokumentierung. In T. Zimenkova (editor), Die Praxis der Soziologie: Ausbildung, Wissenschaft, Beratung. Eine professionstheoretische Untersuchung (pp. 221–292). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839405192-003.
• Zimenkova, T. (2007). 2. Soziologie zwischen Disziplin und Profession: Konstitutionsprobleme. In T. Zimenkova (editor), Die Praxis der Soziologie: Ausbildung, Wissenschaft, Beratung. Eine professionstheoretische Untersuchung (pp. 71–220). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839405192-002.