Lilith Dieterich, M.A.

​Research Associate


Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Department of Social Sciences
Institute for Sociology

PEG-Building Campus Westend
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Room 3.G 043
Phone 069/798-36635
E-mail: dieterich@soz.uni-frankfurt.de



Office Hours

During the summer term 2023/24, office hours will take place online. If you want to come to the office hours, please confirm via email (dieterich@soz.uni-frankfurt.de).

Vita

since 02/2023

Associate of the project Tokenization and Financial Markets (ToFi) at ZEVEDI, Darmstadt

09/2022–12/2022

Research stay at UC Irvine, USA

since 03/2020       

PhD candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, with Focus on Organization and Economy
(Prof. Barbara Brandl)

06/2022

Participation in the New Political Economy Graduate Summer Institute, UC Berkeley

02/2020–03/2020

Research stay at University of Edinburgh, Scotland

10/2017–01/2020 Master of Arts, Sociology of Labor, Industry and Economy
(Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and UC Berkeley)

10/2013–10/2017

Bachelor of Arts, Social Work
(HTWK Leipzig)

09/2009–08/2013            Bachelor of Arts, Arabic Studies
(University of Leipzig)

Scholarships

06/2022    Stipend for New Political Economy Graduate Summer Institute, UC Berkeley

08/2019–12/2019        Promos Scholarship of the DAAD

Fields of activity

Economic and Financial Sociology, Political Economy, Sociology of Technology (especially Blockchain, DLT), Labor Sociology

Publications

  • Brandl, Barbara/Dieterich, Lilith (2021): The Exclusive Nature of Global Payments. The Significance of Centralized Intermediaries and the Role of Tech-driven Companies. Review of International Political Economy. Online first. 

Conference contributions and workshops

  • Finanzregulierung als technologischer Innovationsprozess? ZEVEDI Tagung zur e-Aktie. 15. Mai 2023 [Berlin]. Digital technology transforming finance? SASE 34rd Annual Meeting. July 9–11, 2022 [Amsterdam].
  • Project Development Workshop, Warwick Critical Finance Group, June 18–20, 2022 [Brussels].
  • Blockchain as financial infrastructure. DGS-ÖGS-Soziologiekongress. August 23-25, 2021 [online].
  • Regulating the Blockchain technology: the Quiet Politics of Finance. SASE 33rd Annual Meeting. July 2-5, 2021 [online].
  • Regulating Blockchain in the Financial Sector: The Visionary Dream Is Over. First Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 24-26, 2021, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy [online].
  • Manuscript Development 2.0, Warwick Critical Finance Group, Februar 18, 2021, University of Warwick [online].

Vita

since 02/2023

Associate of the project Tokenization and Financial Markets (ToFi) at ZEVEDI, Darmstadt

09/2022–12/2022

Research stay at UC Irvine, USA

since 03/2020       

PhD candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, with Focus on Organization and Economy
(Prof. Barbara Brandl)

06/2022

Participation in the New Political Economy Graduate Summer Institute, UC Berkeley

02/2020–03/2020

Research stay at University of Edinburgh, Scotland

10/2017–01/2020 Master of Arts, Sociology of Labor, Industry and Economy
(Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and UC Berkeley)

10/2013–10/2017

Bachelor of Arts, Social Work
(HTWK Leipzig)

09/2009–08/2013            Bachelor of Arts, Arabic Studies
(University of Leipzig)

Scholarships

06/2022    Stipend for New Political Economy Graduate Summer Institute, UC Berkeley

08/2019–12/2019        Promos Scholarship of the DAAD

Fields of activity

Economic and Financial Sociology, Political Economy, Sociology of Technology (especially Blockchain, DLT), Labor Sociology

Publications

  • Brandl, Barbara/Dieterich, Lilith (2021): The Exclusive Nature of Global Payments. The Significance of Centralized Intermediaries and the Role of Tech-driven Companies. Review of International Political Economy. Online first. 

Conference contributions and workshops

  • Finanzregulierung als technologischer Innovationsprozess? ZEVEDI Tagung zur e-Aktie. 15. Mai 2023 [Berlin]. Digital technology transforming finance? SASE 34rd Annual Meeting. July 9–11, 2022 [Amsterdam].
  • Project Development Workshop, Warwick Critical Finance Group, June 18–20, 2022 [Brussels].
  • Blockchain as financial infrastructure. DGS-ÖGS-Soziologiekongress. August 23-25, 2021 [online].
  • Regulating the Blockchain technology: the Quiet Politics of Finance. SASE 33rd Annual Meeting. July 2-5, 2021 [online].
  • Regulating Blockchain in the Financial Sector: The Visionary Dream Is Over. First Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 24-26, 2021, International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy [online].
  • Manuscript Development 2.0, Warwick Critical Finance Group, Februar 18, 2021, University of Warwick [online].

NEWS

Prof. Dr. Barbara Brandl writes a Post for the LSE-Blog about „How the cashless revolution worsens inequality“

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Barbara Brandl writes for the e-fin blog about the connection between the digitalisation of money and social inequality.

› Go to blog post (German)

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The article The challenges of assets: Anatomy of an economic form by Ute Tellmann, Veit Braun and Barbara Brandl was published in Economy and Society. 

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The Socio-Economic Review publishes the article Small money, large profits: how the cashless revolution aggravates social inequality (Brandl, Hengsbach & Moreno, 2024).

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Prof. Dr. Barbara Brandl spoke at  Finance Watch's event The Digital Euro: Steps to Success (October 25th, 2023) on the topic 'The Digital Euro: What For and Why Now'. 

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Contact

Prof. Dr. Barbara Brandl

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Department of Social Sciences 03
Institute for Sociology

Chair of Sociology with a Focus on Organization and Economy

Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Room 3.G 080
Phone 069 798-36597

brandl@soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Office Hours

During the summer semester 2024, office hours will take place on the following days:

22.4., 6.5., 13.5., 3.6., 17.6., 24.6.

each at 9.30 a.m. via Zoom. 

If you want to come to the office hours, please confirm via email with Doreen Molnar (Molnar@soz.uni-frankfurt.de). She will then send you the Zoom link.