Monograph

Autopornography. An autoethnography of mediatized bodies . Berlin: De Gruyter 2019.

Editorships

Unexpected un/abilities. The flip side of body-sociological competence orientation . Special Issue of the Austrian Journal of Sociology, 44 (3) (2019) (with Philip Lambrix)

Articles in specialist journals

(* with double blind peer review)

* Psychosocial Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Children with Chronic Health Conditions in Germany – A Qualitative Interview Study. BMJ British Medical Journal open Aug 13;15 (2025) (with Sophie Lukes, Tim Schäfer, Elena Dessauer, Christiane Diefenbach, Michael S. Urschitz and Florian Hammerle)

Re-orientations in sociological methods training. Additions to a debate from the perspective of qualitative social research . SOZIOLOGIE, 53 (1) (2024): Pp. 46-59 (with Tobias Röhl and Daniela Schiek)

* Meet “Me” in the Field(-notes): The Selves and Self-Relations of Autoethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 2023

* Body Boundary Work: Praxeological Thoughts on Personal Corporality. Human Studies 43 (2020): 585-602 (with Sophie Merit Müller)

* Unsuspected un/abilities – Editorial. Austrian Journal of Sociology 44 (3) (2019): 261-267 (with Philip Lambrix)

Articles in collections

(* with double blind peer review)

* Sexual Independence as Collective Performance in Sex Education and Assistance for Disabled People. In: Backhausen, E./Kreuser, M./Wihstutz, B. (eds.): Independence and Collectivity. Configurations of Dis/ability Performance. London/New York: Routledge (i. E. 2025) (with Miriam Brunnengräber)

Forms and degrees of human differentiation in Social Pedagogy and activist helping relationships. In: Hirschauer, S., Hofmann, P., Friedrichs, A., Schabacher, G. (eds.): Human differentiation in comparison. Weilerswist: Velbrück (2025) (with Heike Drotbohm)

Researching with the body: from approaches and/or applications. In: Poferl, A./Schröer, N. (eds.): Leib-Körper Ethnographie. Explorations on body-being and body-having. Essen: Oldib 2023, pp. 19-38

Becoming ‘(Ab )Normal’: Normality, Deviance, and Doing Life Course Transitions. In: Walther, A./Stauber, B./Settersten, R. Jr. (eds.): Doing Transitions in the Life Course – Processes and Practices. Springer 2022, pp. 169-183

“Changes” of bodies with disabilities in sexuality-related discourses. In: Meuser, M./Keller, R. (eds.): Die Körper der Anderen: Body Knowledge III. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022, pp. 139-160 (with Miriam Brunnengräber)

“Pornography”. In: Gugutzer, Robert/Klein, Gabriele/Meuser, Michael (eds.). Handbook of the sociology of the body. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022, pp. 345-357

* Picture Me Naked. Embodying Images On Screen and Off . In: Abidin, C./Cambre, C./Warfield, K. (eds.): Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media. London: Bloomsbury 2020, pp. 247-262

Un/doing Differences. On the theory and empiricism of a research program. In: Hirschauer, S. (ed.): Un/doing Differences. Practices of human differentiation. Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2017, pp. 7-26 (with Stefan Hirschauer)

Media-bound lifeworlds and observing with different eyes. In: Schröer, N./Kreher, S./Poferl, A./Hinnenkamp, V. (eds.): Lebenswelt und Ethnographie. Essen: Oldib 2012, pp. 411-424

Visual items and the (re)production of immediacy: In: Hägele, U./Ziehe, I. (eds.): Visuelle Medien und Forschung, Visuelle Kultur, vol. 5, Münster: Waxmann 2011, pp. 219-231 (with Larissa Schindler)

Miscellanies and reviews

On the way to the queer phase of life. In: DJI Impulse 1/2018: 10-12

Social practices with skin and hair. Everyday semiotics and the practical ontology of bodily peripheries . In: Sozialmagazin. The journal for social work 42 (1-2) (2017): 20-26

Review of Benkel, T./Akalin, F. (eds.): Soziale Dimensionen der Sexualität, Gießen: Psychosozial: In: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 23 (4) (2010): 393-396

Review of “What does normal mean? On the relationship between sexuality and society”. SWS-Rundschau issue 3/2008. in: Journal for Sexual Research 22 (4) (2009): 375-378

in the current semester:

1. Kolloquium: BA/MA-Kolloquium Körpersoziologie
   Instructor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Boll
2. Kolloquium: Das Spektrum der Mainzer Soziologien
   Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Hirschauer; Prof. Dr. Petra Ahrweiler; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Boll; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sascha Dickel; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marina Hennig; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Kalthoff; PD Dr. Marc Mölders; Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic; Univ-Prof. Dr. Gunnar Otte
3. Seminar: On Fieldwork
   Instructor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Boll
4. Vorlesung: Einführung in die Körpersoziologie
   Instructor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Boll

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