Jennie Germann Molz
Professor

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).
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.