Anne Nassauer

Anne Nassauer is a Professor of Sociology, especially Political Sociology, at the Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences of the University of Erfurt. She is a member of the diversity advisory board in the university's presidium and specializes in situational dynamics of violence, collective behavior, and video data analysis.

• Key Research Areas: Protest violence, school shootings, police use of force, video-based methodology, racial biases in policing, and ethical consumption tactics.
• Recent Publications: Focused on gun culture in school shootings (2025), dehumanization in police shootings (2024), and video data analysis challenges (2023).
• Awards:
  • 2021: Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award (American Sociological Association)
  • 2020: Charles Horton Cooley Book Award (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
  • 2020: Honourable Mention, Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology (American Sociological Association)
• Media Engagement: Regularly appears in podcasts (e.g., Back to School Shootings, 2025), documentaries (Terra X, 2023), and international media (Wall Street Journal, FiveThirtyEight, WIRED).