Ann-Dorte Christensen is a Danish professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Work at

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Education

In 1982 Christensen graduated as

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. Subsequently, Christensen worked as a postgraduate fellow on the project "The new social movements of the 60s and 70s" at the Department of Education and

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. In 1990, Christensen received her PhD in

from

Career

Christensen was the national coordinator for

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

from 1988 to 1992. In 1992, she was hired as assistant professor of

political sociology Political sociology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerned with exploring how governance and society interact and influence one another at the micro to macro levels of analysis. Interested in the social causes and consequences of how ...

at Aalborg University. Since 1996 she continued as an

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. Since 2008, Christensen has been employed as professor of the

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at the Department of Sociology and Social work at Aalborg University. Christensen's research mainly touches on areas such as

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

masculinity Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there i ...

ethnicity An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people with shared attributes, which they Collective consciousness, collectively believe to have, and long-term endogamy. Ethnicities share attributes like language, culture, common sets of ancestry, ...

radicalization Radicalization (or radicalisation) is the process by which an individual or a group comes to adopt increasingly radical views in opposition to a political, social, or religious status quo. The ideas of society at large shape the outcomes of rad ...

and everyday life. For a number of years, she has worked with analysis of life stories as an input to understanding

social development Social development can refer to: * Psychosocial development * Social change Social change is the alteration of the social order of a society which may include changes in social institutions, social behaviours or social relations. Sustained at ...

. Christensen has been in charge of a number of research projects. These include the MARS project on masculinity, accidents at work and safety,

intersectionality Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these intersecting and overlapping factor ...

and local community, as well as the INTERLOC project on gender, social class and identity. Christensen has been a senior researcher on a comprehensive Danish study on power in the project "Change in Gender power. Power and democratization processes in Denmark". The project was made together with Anette Borchorst and Birte Siim and was conducted in association with the research program GEP, Gender, Empowerment and Politics. Christensen is a member of the Award Committee at the Spar Nord Fund, co-editor of ''Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies'', a board member at Viborg Katedralskole and at Aalborg University, and a member of the Program Board for Gender Research at the Division of Science in the Research Council of Norway and of the Equality Council:

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Christensen, Ann-Dorte 1954 births Living people Aalborg University alumni Academic staff of Aalborg University Danish sociologists Danish women sociologists Danish women social scientists Gender studies academics