Robert Dorschel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University. He is a sociologist of class and inequality, with a particular focus on class relations in the context of digitalization. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tilburg University and a Research Affiliate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Previously, Robert has analyzed how the growing middle class fraction of tech workers cultivates a subjectivity that departs from the ideal of the entrepreneurial self, opening the potential both for a new ‘spirit of capitalism’ and for a culture that might resist processes of capital accumulation. In his most recent work, Robert examines the rise of the green tech industry as well as ecological class divides and the new forms of distinction that correspond to them.
Robert completed his PhD in sociology at the University of Cambridge after studying sociology and political science at Duke University, Humboldt-University Berlin, and the University of Kiel.
