Friederike Schmidt

Friederike Schmidt is a German educational scientist specializing in ethnographic childhood and youth research, social science food research, pedagogical epistemes, and reflexive anthropology. Since 2020, she has served as an academic councilor (PartTime Lecturer) at the University of Siegen, following visiting professorships at Bielefeld University and Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her scholarly trajectory includes a doctorate from the Free University of Berlin (2017) with a thesis on "Implicit Logics of the Pedagogical Gaze" and a habilitation at the University of Cologne (2020) on "Human Arrangements in Pedagogy."

Research Focus:

• Ethnographic childhood and youth research
• Social science food research
• Analysis of pedagogical epistemes
• Reflexive anthropology
• Cultural studies of popular music

Publication Trends: Her recent work explores intersections of youth culture, social normalization processes, and spatial pedagogy through case studies of gangsta rap and digital media interactions. This reflects her broader interest in cultural epistemologies and bodily practices in educational contexts.