PD Dr. Anne Tittor

Anne Tittor studied sociology, political science and peace and conflict research in Marburg and studied a year abroad in Santiago de Compostela/Spain. She completed her doctorate in political science in Kassel on the driving forces of commodification in the health sector in Argentina and El Salvador and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Bielefeld on a project on the valorization of nature in Central America. She has conducted many research stays in Latin America, especially in Argentina, Nicaragua and El Salvador. From 2016-2022, Anne Tittor worked in the BMBF junior research group "Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Interdependencies and entanglements in the bioenergy sector from a transnational perspective", which she also headed as a parental leave substitute. At the beginning of 2023, she completed her habilitation in sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In the summer semester of 2023, Anne Tittor was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. 

Her research interests are development theory, transnational entanglements and globalization, environmental, social and health policy, social inequality, extractivism, political ecology, social movements with a regional focus on Latin America.

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Lectures

  • Tittor, Anne: Die Umkämpftheit der Postfossilen Transformation. Zur Widersprüchlichkeit aktueller Klima- und Wirtschaftspolitik in Südamerika und Westeuropa, Lecture at the spring conference of the DGS Section on Environmental and Sustainability Sociology, Klima gekippt?! Umkämpfte Transformation, Greenlash und (Post-)Apokalypse, Frankfurt am Main. (30.03.2026)

  • Tittor, Anne: ¿Descarbonización a costo de quién? Desigualdades sociales en la transformación socio-ambiental, Book presentation and participation in the panel discussion, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. (11.03.2026)

  • Tittor, Anne: Wie die geopolitische Wende den Globalen Süden trifft: Risiken und Handlungsspielräume, Presentation at the event „Macht, Ressourcen und Wirtschaftswandel: Geoökonomie, Geopolitik und die ungleiche Transformation“, online. (04.03.2026)

  • Tittor, Anne: Transformationskonflikte weltweit: Zwischen Transformationsängsten, Umweltgerechtigkeitsforderungen und dem Hoffen auf grüne Wertschöpfung, WSI- Herbstforum 2025, Berlin. (12.11.25)

  • Tittor, Anne: Dekarbonisierung auf wessen Kosten? Soziale Ungleichheiten in der sozial-ökologischen Transformation, Ringvorlesung, Universität Gießen. (14.10.25)

  • Tittor, Anne: Participation in the DGS Ad Hoc Group on Structural Change of Poperty, German Sociological Association, Duisburg. (25.09.25)

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