Lisa Suckert

Lisa Suckert is an Associate Professor of Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the University of Antwerp’s Department of Sociology, affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research bridges economic, political, and cultural sociology, focusing on contemporary capitalism’s political and social dimensions, particularly decarbonization, climate crisis, and future imaginaries. She holds a PhD from Otto Friedrich University Bamberg and previously served as a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne. Suckert’s work emphasizes mixed methods, combining discourse analysis, interviews, and quantitative text analysis to explore economic imaginaries and their role in societal transitions.

Education:

• PhD in Sociology, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg (2014)
• Studies in European Economics and Business Administration, Otto Friedrich University Bamberg (2003–2008)

Research Interests: Sustainable development, climate crisis dynamics, temporality in capitalism, and decarbonization controversies. Her ERC-funded REIMAGINE project investigates economic imagination’s role in European decarbonization strategies.

Awards:

• ERC Starting Grant (2024)
• Article of the Year Award, The Sociological Review (2023)

Teaching: Courses on crisis sociology, temporal order of capitalism, and economic sociology at BA/MA/PhD levels. Institutions include University of Antwerp, Sciences Po Paris, and University of Wuppertal.