Jennie Germann Molz

Montserrat Cluster Director (Core Human Questions), Professor

Sociology & Anthropology
Ethics, Society, and the Institution of Business

Contact

jmolz@holycross.edu

Areas of Expertise

critical hospitality studies, digital nomads, emotion and affect, family travel, future studies, global citizenship, mobile lifestyles, mobile methods, mobile technologies and online platforms, tourism mobilities, worldschooling

Education

Ph.D., Lancaster University

Biography

Jennie Germann Molz is a Professor of Sociology. She received her PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in England where she subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe). Her research interests include tourism mobilities and mobile technologies; digital nomads; mobile families and educational travel; hospitality and the ethics of welcoming strangers; global citizenship, home, and belonging; food, consumption, and identity; and mobile methodologies. She is co-editor of the journal Hospitality & Society. Her publications include Travel Connections: Technology, Tourism and Togetherness in a Mobile World (Routledge), Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities (Palgrave Macmillan), The World is Our Classroom: Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling (NYU Press), and most recently, Affect and Emotion in Tourism, edited with Dorinar-Maria Buda (Routledge).

Sample Courses

  • The Sociological Perspective
  • Development of Social Theory
  • Sociology of Emotion
  • Sociology of Travel & Tourism

Select Publications

Books

Dorina-Maria Buda & Jennie Germann Molz. Eds. 2023. Affect and Emotion in Tourism. Routledge.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2021. The World is Our Classroom: Extreme Parenting and the Rise of Worldschooling. NYU Press.

Soile Veijola, Jennie Germann Molz , Alexander Grit, Olly Pyyhtinen & Emily Höckert. 2014. Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests: Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities. Palgrave Macmillan.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2012. Travel Connections: Tourism, Technology and Togetherness in a Mobile World. Routledge.

Journal Articles

Jennie Germann Molz. 2024. Worldschooling Is Catching On. Here’s What You Need to Know. Scientific American, 21 October, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worldschooling-is-catching-on-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

Claire D’Attoma ’22 & Jennie Germann Molz. 2024. Mothering in Liminality: Toward a Definition of Third Culture Parenting. Family Relations, 73(4): 2435-2454.

Fabiola Mancinelli & Jennie Germann Molz. 2024. Moving With and Against the State: Digital Nomads and Frictional Mobility Regimes. Mobilities, 19(2): 189-207.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2023. Gaze, Dwelling, Nomad: Metaphors for a Mobile Imagination. Transfers, 13(1-2): 109-127. 

Jennie Germann Molz. 2021. Tout (est) Mobile: Convergence et distinction dans les modes de vie mobiles des familles pratiquant l’éducation par le voyage//Mobile Everything: Convergence and Distinction in the Mobile Lifestyles of Worldschooling Families. Anthropologie et Sociétés, 44(2): 61-86.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2018. Discourses of Scale in Network Hospitality: From the Airbnb Home to the Global Imaginary of “Belong Anywhere.” Hospitality & Society, 8(3): 229-251.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2017. Learning to Feel Global: Exploring the Emotional Geographies of Worldschooling. Emotion, Space and Society, 23(May 2017): 16-25.

Jennie Germann Molz. 2017. Giving Back, Doing Good, Feeling Global: The Affective Flows of Family Voluntourism. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 46(3): 334-360.

Jennie Germann Molz.2016. Making a Difference Together: Discourses of Transformation in Family Voluntourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 24(3): 805-823.