Nina Schuster is a sociologist and deputy professor for Urban and Regional Sociology at HafenCity University Hamburg. Her teaching and research focus on urban and cultural sociology, social inequality and difference, social conflicts and practices, feminist and queer theory as well as qualitative research methods. For many years, she has been working as an academic staff member at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University, where from 2018-21, she has conducted a DFG research project on conflicts and the everyday negotiation of difference in urban allotment gardens (published in the monography “Grüne Öffentlichkeiten. Soziales Miteinander in städtischen Kleingärten”, transcript 2024). Currently, she works on urban conflicts and property from a conflict theory perspective, focusing on the distribution, access and use of urban space and the specific interests depending on the social position of the actors involved (together with Philipp Kadelke, TU Dortmund, and Jenny Künkel, Universität Duisburg-Essen). In 2022 she was a visiting professor at TU Wien. She has also worked at Universität Duisburg Essen, Universität Kassel and Philipps-Universität Marburg. She is a co-founder and member of the editorial collective of sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung (www.zeitschrift-suburban.de).
