After graduating with her MA in 2004, Annette Tezli returned to Berlin, Germany where she worked as an intern for Infratest dimap (TNS Infratest group), an institute specializing in electoral and political research. Subsequently, she interned at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin. In 2006, she moved to Canada to pursue a PhD in Sociology at the University of Calgary. Annette's dissertation research, which she successfully defended in November 2013, ethnographically explores the experience of sheltered homeless families living in one of Canada's economically most prosperous regions. Her research seeks to contextualize individual poverty experiences by delineating how a broad range of structural factors such as developments in the local housing market, economic changes and wage trends, social policies, governmental funding for homeless shelters and shelter organization interact with individual level challenges homeless families face and thereby produce instances of extreme poverty in an industrialized country. She now has a tenure-track Instructor position at the University of Calgary.
