Dr. Barbara Keller, Dipl.-Psych.

Barbara Keller is a post-doc researcher at the Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. She is working for the DFG-funded project: Varieties of Deconversion- Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America.

Contact
Universität Bielefeld
Forschungsstelle biographische Religionsforschung (Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion)
Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie
Postfach 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 521-106-3363
Fax: +49 521-106-8034
Email: barbara.keller //AT// uni-bielefeld.de

Education
Doctoral Dissertation (1994) in Heidelberg
Research project on the psychological aspects of elderly women´s situations as residents in the city 1991-1994.
Research assistant with "Alters-Survey" (Aging survey) Dept. of Psychogerontology, Nijmegen in the Netherlands 1994-1995.
1997/98 teaching assignment at Cologne University, Department of General and Cultural Psychology.
Project with autistic young adults 1999 - 2000, City of Cologne.
2000 - Summer of 2002 University of Technology, Dresden, Department of Developmental Psychology
She is a candidate at the Institut für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie im Rheinland e.V., Köln.

Research Focus
Autobiographical memory and narratives; faith development across the life span
Gender studies
Vocational development

Recent Publications
Keller, B. (2002) Personal identity and social discontinuity: On memories of the "war generation" in former West Germany. In J. D. Webster & B. Haight (eds.) Critical advances in reminiscence. From theory to application. New York etc.: Springer Verlag.

Keller, B. (2003) Gedächtnisse und Erinnerungen: Psychologische Perspektiven. Handlung, Kultur, Interpretation, Interdisziplinäres Themenheft (eds N. Pethes & J.Ruchatz).

Keller, B. (2004) Arbeits- u. Organisationspsychologie. In D.G, Myers Psychologie Heidelberg: Springer

Heinz Streib & B. Keller (2004) The Variety of Deconversion Experiences: Contours of a Concept in Respect to Empirical Research. Archiv für Religionspsychologie 26, 181-200

Fowler, J. W., Streib, H. & Keller, B. (2004). Manual for Faith Development Research, 3rd edition, Atlanta; Bielefeld: Center for Research in Faith and Moral Development; Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. Website:
http://rf.isert-network.com/docs_en/manual_download.htm

Membership in professional bodies
Founding member of the "Heidelberger Institut für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung" e. V. ,http://www.hifi-heidelberg.de
Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Deutschen Stiftung Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Heidelberg
Member of WISE (Women´s International Studies Europe)