Sabina Pultz

Research interests: (un)employment, (in)dignity, (in)equality, social psychology, emotions, comparative studies, marginalization, labor market research.

Bio: Sabina Pultz (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University. She was visiting scholar at MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) housed at MIT Sloan business school in 2015 and currently a member of the Danish Young Academy (2023-2028). As a critical social psychologist Pultz explores unemployment experiences and other experiences of being marginalized on the labor market in Europe and the US. In particular Pultz explores the role of emotions and how they are linked to underlying value system and thus address the intersection between psychology and politics. Her interdisciplinary and comparative work has been published in international journals (International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, Health, risk & society, Theory & Psychology, Journal of Youth Studies, Culture & Psychology). Currently Pultz is co-leading a research project (Indigma) comparing experiences of marginalization in Denmark, France and the US theorizing the concept of (in)dignity. Her upcoming book “Emotionally indebted” published with Palgrave Macmillan investigates the many ways unemployed people are governed in the Danish welfare state and how they govern themselves. 

Photo: Lars Svankjær for The Young Academy

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (update 09.06.2025)