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Oliver Dimbath is Professor of General Sociology at the Institute of Sociology within the Department of Educational Sciences at Universität Koblenz, formerly known as Universität Koblenz-Landau, contributing to the Social Science discipline. He obtained a Diplom in Business Administration from Fachhochschule München in 1992, a Diplom in Sociology, Social Psychology, and Social and Economic History from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1998, a doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.) from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 2002, and a Habilitation with venia legendi for Sociology from Universität Augsburg in 2012. His professional career began as a research associate at the Chair of Sociology, Philosophisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Augsburg in 2003, advancing to academic councilor (a.Z.) in 2007. He held a temporary W3 professorship for General Sociology and Social Theory at Bergische Universität Wuppertal for one semester in 2011, a temporary W3 professorship for Social Developments and Structures at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for two semesters in 2013, and served as academic senior councilor (a.Z.) at Universität Augsburg from 2014. In 2017, he was appointed Professor of General Sociology at Universität Koblenz. He currently serves as Dean of Fachbereich 1.

Dimbath's research specializations include general sociology and sociological theory, sociology of knowledge and social memories, sociology of science, film sociology, cultural sociology, and methods of qualitative empirical social research. He is a board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) Section on Sociology of Knowledge since January 2023 and a member of DGS sections on Sociological Theory, Media Sociology, and Youth Sociology, as well as the Working Group on Social Memory, Remembering and Forgetting, Working Group on Youth Travel Research, Working Group on Film Sociology, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Evaluation, and Deutscher Hochschulverband. Dimbath engages in editorial contributions as a peer reviewer for journals including Human Studies (Springer), Qualitative Sociology Review, Space and Culture (Sage), Memory Studies (Sage), Zeitschrift für Soziologie (de Gruyter Brill), and Soziale Welt (Nomos). Key publications comprise Social Memory: Classical Theories and New Perspectives (2022, co-edited with Michael Heinlein, BRILL/Fink), Oblivionism: Forgetting and Forgetfulness in Modern Science (2022), the two-volume Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung (2023), Gesellschaftstheorie: Eine Einführung (2021), and Handlungstheorie: Eine Einführung (2020).