Prof. Dr. Anne Nassauer

• Violence, Crime, and Policing
• Collective Behavior and Social Movements
• (Symbolic) Interaction, Emotion, and Social Psychology
• Video Data Analysis (VideoDataAnalysis.com)
• Social Science Methods & Research Ethics

Current

• „Integrating a cognitive and collective behaviour perspective on behavioral contagion: developing decision models for artificial agents in VR” (SCIoI Grant with Marcel Brass, Jens Krause, and Pawel Romanczuk, Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Using 21^st century video data for social science research: Advancing Video Data Analysis (research project in cooperation with Nicolas Legewie, University of Erfurt)
• Rampage School Shootings in the United States
• A Human Inhibition to Violence? Studying Violent Confrontation in Humans and other Great Apes

Finished

• An Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Footage of Officer-involved Shootings (research project as a visiting fellow at Yale University 2019 & 2020, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
• Collective Violence in Germany and the United States: Protests, Riots, and the Police (junior professor research project at Freie Universität Berlin)
• Failed Interaction Rituals: Analyzing Armed Store Robberies Caught on CCTV (postdoctoral research project at Freie Universität Berlin)
• Developing a Methodological Framework for Video Analysis in the 21^st Century (with Nicolas Legewie, University of Pennsylvania)
• Subterranean Politics in Germany: Occupy, Anonymous, Guttenplag (with Helmut Anheier, Hertie School of Governance)
• National and Transnational Diffusion of Social Movement Tactics (with Bogdan Vasi, University of Iowa, research project as a visiting scholar at Columbia University 2010 & 2011, funded by the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences)

• 2021 Outstanding Recent Contribution in Social Psychology Award from the American Sociological Association‘s Section on Social Psychology for "Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes" (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• 2020 Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology 2020 Honorable Mention from the American Sociological Association's Section on Political Sociology for "Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes" (Oxford University Press, 2019).
• 2020 Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) for "Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes" (Oxford University Press, 2019).

• Featured as expert on violence and collective behavior in Terra X documentary „Schlaue Schwärme - Rätselhafte Kräfte“ (“Smart Swarms - Mysterious Forces“, ZDF, director Iris Gesang), research by and interviews with Anne Nassauer from min 30, 12.03.2023, available in the ZDF-Mediathek.
• Research featured in Wall Street Journal, article: “The Trump Organization’s Political Prosecution”, June 02, 2021.
• Interview with States, Power, and Societies - ASA Political Sociology Section Newsletter, article: “Interview with Dr. Anne Nassauer, Honorable Mention Distinguished Contribution to Scholarships Award for her book ‚Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes‘ (Oxford 2019)”, 20 December 2020.
• Interview with FiveThirtyEight, article: „De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway“, 01 June 2020.
• Interview with WIRED, article: „Curfews Can Quell Violence—but Also Spark More Protests“, 04 June 2020.
• Twelve books that give context to current protests [reading list], Oxford University Press Blog, discusses among other books “Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other surprising outcomes” by Anne Nassauer, 03 June 2020.
• “Order, breakdown and the dynamics of protest violence”, 45-minute live interview on “Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and Other Surprising Outcomes” (Oxford University Press, 2019) on US radio show “This is Hell”, Sept 21, 2019.
• Research featured in Commercial Appeal (USA Today Network), “Experts raise questions about police response to Frayser protest”, June 12, 2019.
• Article in Zócalo Public Square (featured in Smithsonian Online Magazine): “How Scientists Can Learn About Human Behavior From Closed-Circuit TV”, September 07, 2018.
• Interview with DIE ZEIT, article: “Vorbild Berlin?” (on protest policing and violent clashes at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany), July 12, 2017.
• Interview with FU-student magazine FURIOS, article: “Es gibt keine simple Erklärung” (“There is No Simple Explanation”, on the occurrence of rampage school shootings), July 10, 2017.
• Interview with Wall Street Journal, article: “Rating a Semi-Accidental President” (on Donald Trump’s emotion expression on election night), April 25, 2017

• Nassauer, Anne & Nicolas M. Legewie (2022). Video Data Analysis: How to Use 21st Century Video in the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
• Nassauer, A. (2019). Situational Breakdowns: Understanding Protest Violence and other Surprising Outcomes. New York: Oxford University Press.

• William N.S. Arlidge, Robert Arlinghaus, Ralf H.J.M. Kurvers, Anne Nassauer, Rodrigo Oyanedel & Jens Krause (2023). "Situational Social Influence Leading to Non-compliance with Conservation Rules. Trends in Ecology and Evolution." DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.08.003.
• Nicolas Legewie & Anne Nassauer (2023). "Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis." Sociological Methods & Research 52 (3), 1107-1119.
• Nicolas Legewie & Anne Nassauer (guest editors, equal contribution, 2023). Special Issue: "The Present and Future of Video-based Social Science Research". Sociological Methods and Research, Volume 52, Issue 3.
• Nassauer, Anne (2023). Two processes of dehumanization: an in-depth study of racial biases in real-life officer-involved shootings of black citizens. Ethnic and Racial Studies.Online first: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2210654.
• Nassauer, Anne (2022). “Situation, Context, and Causality – On a Core Debate of Violence Research.” Violence: An International Journal 3(1):40-64
• Nassauer, Anne. 2022. “Video Data Analysis as a Tool for Studying Escalation Processes: The Case of Police Use of Force.” Historical Social Research 47(1):36–57.
• Krause, J., P. Romanczuk, E. Cracco, W. Arlidge, A. Nassauer & M. Brass (2021) “Collective Rule-Breaking.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 25 (12): 1082-1095. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.003.
• Nassauer, Anne (2021). “Whose Streets? Our Streets! Negotiations of Space and Collective Violence”Social Problems 68 (4): 852–869. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa051.
• Nassauer, A. & Legewie, N. M. (2021, equal authors). “Video Data Analysis: A Methodological Frame for a Novel Research Trend.” Sociological Methods and Research, 50(1): 135–174  (online first since 2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124118769093.
• Nassauer, A. & Legewie, N. M. (2020, equal authors). "Methodologische Entwicklungen in der Gewaltforschung - Videodatenanalyse, Mixed Methods und Big Data." (Methodological Developments in Violence Research - Video Data Analysis, Mixed Methods, and Big Data). Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 45:135–156.
• Nassauer, A. & Legewie, N. M. (2019, equal authors). “Analyzing 21st Century Video Data on Situational Dynamics—Issues and Challenges in Video Data Analysis” Social Sciences 8(3):100.
• Nassauer, A. & Legewie, N. M. (2018, equal authors). "YouTube, Google, Facebook: 21st Century Online Video Research and Research Ethics." Forum: Qualitative Social Research. 19:03, Art. 32.
• Nassauer, A. (2018). “Situational Dynamics and the Emergence of Violence During Protests.” Psychology of Violence. 8(3):293-304.
• Nassauer, A. & Vasi, I. B. (2018). “On Carrots and Mobs. The Transnational Diffusion of a Collective Ethical Consumption Tactic.” Acta Sociologica. 61(4): 356-373.
• Nassauer, A. (2018). “How Robberies Succeed or Fail: Analyzing Crime Caught on CCTV.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 55(1): 125-154.
• Nassauer, A. (2016). „Theoretische Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Gewalt in Protesten: Eine situative mechanismische Erklärung.” Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 25, 491–518.
• Nassauer, A. (2016). “From Peaceful Marches to Violent Clashes: A Micro-Situational Analysis.” Social Movement Studies. "15:5, 515-530".
• Nassauer, A. (2015). ”Effective Crowd Policing: Empirical Insights on Avoiding Violence”, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 38:1, 3-23.
• Nassauer, A. (2010). “From Hate to Collective Violence - Research and Practical Implications.” Journal of Hate Studies, Vol. 9 (1).

• Nassauer, Anne. 2022. “School shootings: the social dynamics of mental disorder” in Marta Elliott (Ed.), Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Nassauer, Anne. 2022. “Eskalation bei Großdemonstrationen. Wege in die Gewalt und Möglichkeiten der Gewaltvermeidung” (Escalation at Large-Scale Protests: Pathways into Violence and Options for Violence Avoidance) in Bernd Bürger (Ed.) Die Rolle der Polizei bei Versammlungen: Theorie und Praxis. Wiesbaden: Springer.
• Nassauer, A. & Nicolas M. Legewie (2020, equal authors). “Violent Livestreams as Data? The 2019 Christchurch Attack Livestream as a Case Study in Research Ethics”, in Shing-Ling S. Chen and Zhoujun J. Chen, Nicolas Allaire (Eds.), Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming. Oxford: Lexington Publishing.
• Nassauer, A. & Nicolas M. Legewie (2020, equal authors). „How COVID-19 Could Help Social Science Researchers“, Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World (OUPBlog).
• Nassauer, Anne (2019). “Documenting Dissent: US Mainstream Media Reports versus Activists’ Capture and Representation of Protests”, in Ulla Haselstein, Frank Kelleter, Alexander Starre, and Birte Wege (Eds.), American Counter/Publics. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag.
• Legewie, N. M., A. Nassauer & M. Stuerznickel (2019). “Opportunities for Analyzing Visual Data in the 21st Century. Report from the 2019 Blankensee-Colloquium on Capturing and Analyzing Social Change.” Social Science Research Network (SSNR) 1–28.
• Nassauer, A. (2019). “Raum und kollektive Gewalt” („Space and Collective Violence“), in Fabien Jobard and Daniel Schönpflug (Eds.), Politische Gewalt im urbanen Raum. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Nassauer, A. (2019). „Video surveillance footage shows how rare violence really is“, Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World (OUPBlog).
• Nassauer, A. (2019) „Once More with Feeling: A Review of James Jasper’s ‘The Emotions of Protest’”, Soziopolis.
• Nassauer, A. (2017). “Polizei und Protest - Einsatzplanung und situative Strategien zur Gewaltvermeidung” (Police and Protest – Operation Planning and Situational Strategies to Avoid Violence), in Annelie Molapisi, Michael Neumann, Rainer Prätorius (Ed.), Die Freunde der Helfer. Polizeipolitik in unsicheren Zeiten. Frankfurt: Verlag für Polizeiwissenschaft.
• Nassauer, A. (2015). „Developing a Micro-Situational Theory of Crowd Violence“ in Elizabeth Crespo Kebler (Ed.), Cultures, Social Bonds and the Dynamics of Violence. Oxfordshire: Inter-Disciplinary Press.
• Nassauer, A. (2015). “Forward Panic and Police Riots” in Marco Gerster, Steffen Krämer, and Daniel Ziegler (Eds.), Framing Excessive Violence – Discourse and Dynamics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Nassauer, A. & Anheier, H. (2015). „The ‘Swarm Intelligence’ and Occupy: Recent Subterranean Politics in Germany“, in Kaldor, Mary and Sabine Selchow (Eds.), Subtearranean Politics in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Nassauer, A. (2012). Violence in Demonstrations: A Comparative Analysis of Situational Interaction Dynamics at Social Movement Protests. Dissertation, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
• Nassauer, A. & Labigne, A. (equal contribution). (2012). „Violence in Civil Society. Insights from the CIVICUS Civil Society Index Databases“, in Wolfgang Dörner and Regina List (Eds.), Civil Society, Conflict and Violence. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) / American Sociological Review / American Journal of Sociology / Sociological Methods and Research / Social Problems / European Sociological Review / Oxford University Press / University of California Press / Sociological Theory / Current Sociology /  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health / Social Movement Studies / Journal of Peace Research / Time & Society / Policing & Society / Deviant Behavior / The British Journal of Politics and International Relations / Journal of International Studies / Psychology of Violence / Violence: An International Journal / Police Practice and Research: An International Journal / Civil Wars / Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism / Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology / Qualitative Criminology / Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Democracy and Security / Peace and Conflict Studies / Anthropology: Southern Africa / Visual Studies / Applied Sciences / Recent Patents in Engineering / Berliner Journal  für Soziologie.