König, Gudrun M.

Gudrun M. König ist Professorin am Institut für Kunst und Materielle Kultur der TU Dortmund. Sie promovierte und habilitierte an der Universität Tübingen. Forschungsschwerpunkte/-interessen: Mode-, Konsum-, Wissenschafts- und Museumsgeschichte.

Dr. Gudrun M. König is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sports Sciences at TU Dortmund University and a professor of material culture anthropology. She studied European ethnology, sociology, and political sciences at the University of Tübingen and wrote her doctoral thesis on the cultural history of landscape and outdoor recreation. Gudrun König has been a research fellow in the Margarete von Wrangell Program and scientific assistant at the University of Tübingen, where she also completed her habilitation on material culture and consumption. She works on many genres of material culture such as clothing and fashion, has edited a book on things of everyday life and the handling of scientific objects and co-edited a publication taking an analytical approach to fashion studies.