Dr. Kristian Naglo
Scientific staffE-Mail: kristian.naglo@serbski-institut.de
Areas of research
- Cultural sociology of sport
- Sports stars as cultural phenomena
- Football culture
- Sociolinguistic research into multilingualism
- German Studies
Research projects
CV
- Since 2024 Scientific staff, Sorbian Institute, Bautzen
- 2023-2024 Scientific staff, Research Network ‘Empower’, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz. Project: Community Lab: Sport, Migration, and Health
- 2020–2023 RScientific staff, German Sport University Cologne, Institute for European Sport Development and Leisure Research
- 2016–2019 Scientific staff, University of Marburg, Institute for Sociology
- 2011–2016 Scientific staff, University of Giessen, Institute for Sociology
- 2008–2010 Teaching assistant, University of Lancaster (German & European Studies), UK
- 2002–2007 Doctorate “The roles of language in identity formation processes in multilingual societies in Europe. A comparative study of Luxembourg, South Tyrol, and the Basque Country” at LMU Munich in the international doctoral program “Language Theory and Applied Linguistics (LIPP)”. Funded by a doctoral scholarship from the Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg.
- 1994-2001 Studied political science, psychology, and Spanish philology at the University of Trier and the Universidad de Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Lectureship
Teaching at the universities of Lancaster (UK), Innsbruck (Austria), Potchefstroom (South Africa), Giessen, Göttingen, Siegen, and the German Sport University Cologne in the fields of European Studies & German Studies, Language Policy & Sociolinguistics, and Cultural Sociology of Sport & Sports Policy
Publications
Monographs
- Naglo, Kristian/Porter, Dilwyn/Mittag, Jürgen (eds.) (2019): Small Worlds: Football at the Grassroots in Europe. Special Issue for Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movement, 61/2019
- Waine, Anthony/Naglo, Kristian (eds.) (2014): On and Off the field. Fußballkultur in England und Deutschland –Football Culture in England and Germany. Wiesbaden: Springer VS
- Naglo, Kristian (2007): Rollen von Sprache in Identitätsbildungsprozessen multilingualer Gesellschaften in Europa. Eine vergleichende Betrachtung Luxemburgs, Südtirols und des Baskenlands. Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang
Articles
- Naglo, Kristian (2025): Football in German schools and the role of the German FA in the context of a discourse of ‘crisis’ and the World Cup 2006’. In: Soccer & Society, pp. 1–15. DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2025.2481795
- Brandt, Christian/Naglo, Kristian (2025): Patrons in German lower league football: a qualitative case study. Soccer & Society, 1–12. DOI: 10.1080/14660970.2024.2446057
- Naglo, Kristian/Krossa, Anne Sophie (2024): (Un-)Möglichkeiten demokratischer Bildung: Einheit und Differenz in sozialen Räumen des organisierten Fußballs. In: Wie gelingt partizipative politische Bildung für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene im Fußball? Herausgegeben von Fabian Fritz / Birger Schmidt / Simon Walter / Markus Zwecker. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 151-165
- Naglo, Kristian/Krossa, Anne Sophie (2022): Perceptions of Integration in the Glocal World of Football. In: Beyer, Peter (ed.): Globalization/Glocalization: Developments in Theory and Application: Essays in Honour of Roland Robertson. Brill: Leiden, 218-236
- Naglo, Kristian (2020): The Social World of Elite Youth Football in Germany – Reinvention, Optimization Strategies and the Role of Schools. In: Sport in Society. DOI: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1769958
- Kristian Naglo/Christian Brandt/Jochem Kotthaus (2020): Facetten des Amateurfußballs. In: Brandt, Christian/Kotthaus, Jochem/ Naglo, Kristian (eds.) (2020): Amateurfußball – Fußball der Amateur_innen. Special Issue for Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft – FuG, 1/2020, 3-21
- Naglo, Kristian/Porter, Dilwyn (2020): Amateurfußball im Wandel: Krise, Transformation und soziales Unternehmertum im deutsch-englischen Vergleich. In: Brandt, Christian/Kotthaus, Jochem/ Naglo, Kristian (eds.) (2020): Amateurfußball
– Fußball der Amateur_innen. Special Issue for Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft – FuG, 1/2020, 42-64 - Naglo, Kristian (2020): Event und die Herstellung von Globalität im lokalen Kontext: Ein Jugendfußballturnier. In: Hitzler, Ronald /Reichertz, Jo/Schröer, Norbert (eds.): Kritik der Hermeneutischen Wissenssoziologie Problematisierungen, Entwicklungen und
Weiterführungen. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz Juventa, 326-338 - Zifonun, Dariuš/Naglo, Kristian (2019): Core Activity, Event and Crisis: Making the Small Worlds of Amateur Football. In: Naglo, Kristian/Porter, Dilwyn/Mittag, Jürgen (eds.): Small Worlds: Football at the Grassroots in Europe. Special Issue for Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, 61/2019, 61-82
- Naglo, Kristian/Mittag, Jürgen/Porter, Dilwyn (2019): Defining, Interpreting and Comparing Small Worlds of Football. An Introduction to the Aims and Objectives of this Special Issue. In: Kristian Naglo/Jürgen Mittag/Dilwyn Porter (eds.): Small Worlds:
Football at the Grassroots in Europe, Moving the Social 1/2019, Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, 5-11 - Krossa, Anne Sophie/Naglo, Kristian (2019): Integration durch Fußball!? Integrationsideale und -realitäten in einem Sportangebot für Geflüchtete. In: Zeitschrift für Fußball und Gesellschaft, 1/2019, 69-89
- Naglo, Kristian (2019): Steffi Graf and Boris Becker: German Tennis, National Identity and the Mash of Media Images. In: Lake, Robert (ed.): The Routledge Handbook of Tennis: History, Culture and Politics. London: Routledge, 76-86
- Naglo, Kristian (2018): Social Change, Astro-Turfs, and Entrepreneurial Activities in the Context of German Non-Elite Football: The Example of Lower-Division Club BSV Bielstein. In: Vamplew, Wray/Porter, Dilwyn (eds.): Entrepreneurial Activity and
Sport: Opportunities, Alternatives, Choices. Special Issue for International Journal of the History of Sport, 35:7-8, 789-802, DOI: 10.1080/09523367.2018.1544554 - Naglo, Kristian (2017): Soccer’s Small Worlds. In: Aspiration and Reflection: Sport Historians on Sports History. In: Dichter, Heather/Vamplew, Wray (eds.): Special Issue for International Journal of the History of Sport, 34:5-6, 414-419, DOI:
10.1080/09523367.2017.1378185