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Welcome to the Faculty of Human Sciences, Prof. Dr. Eva Sänger!

 

 

Prof. Dr. Eva Sänger conducts research and teaches in the field of social sciences at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Cologne. 

 

A few questions for Prof. Sänger...

1. Since when have you been a member of the Faculty of Human Sciences?

Since January 1, 2020.

2. What are the main areas of focus in your professorship?

The focus of my professorship lies in sociological research on technology and organization, as well as in queer-feminist gender studies. I am interested in how technical devices and technologies transform practices and gender relations, shape our daily lives, and how they are developed in relation to social norms and power dynamics.

3. What do you particularly appreciate about the University of Cologne?

Right now, I am enormously impressed by the ability to collaborate and the commitment of everyone involved in maintaining everyday university life despite the measures against the spread of the coronavirus.

4. What is your motto for university teaching?

To inspire a love of reading sociological and gender-theoretical literature, as well as a passion for thinking and discussing these topics. I consider the ability to reflect and the realization that there are no simple truths to be very important.

5. What would you like to impart to your students?

What students ultimately take away is likely to vary greatly. I am pleased when students develop the ability to recognize the conditions for the production of (social) scientific knowledge and can participate in it, but at the same time see that scientific findings are always open-ended and socially situated.

6. Where are you originally from?

I was born in Giessen and grew up in Aachen, Würzburg, and Darmstadt. The region in Germany I feel most connected to is Hesse.

7. What is your attitude toward Carnival?

So far, I have only experienced the extensive impact of Carnival on everyday life in the city and at the university, but I have not yet celebrated Carnival in Cologne myself. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, I would currently be most happy if circumstances arose that allowed people to celebrate together—that is, if collective gatherings were once again possible without posing a health risk to one another.

 

 

Brief Academic Biography: Eva Sänger

As of: 08/2020

 

  • 01/2020: Professorship (W2) in Organization, Technology, and Gender at the Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne Summer Semester 2018: Acting Professor for General Sociology and Sociological Theory, Institute of Sociology, TU Darmstadt
  • 02/2018: Habilitation at the Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • Jan 2017–Dec 2019: Research Associate in the Research Focus Area Biotechnology, Nature, and Society, Institute of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 04/2015 - 09/2016: Acting Professor of Sociology with a focus on Biotechnology, Nature, and Society, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 10/2014–11/2014: Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS), Graz
  • 06/2012: Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 08/2012–12/2012: Research Associate, Project Leader of the research project “Prenatal Diagnostics in Transition? Sociocultural Contexts of the Implementation of New Testing Procedures for Down Syndrome” (HMWK), Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 09/2010 – 03/2014: Research Assistant, DFG Project Lead (“Independent Position”): Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 11/2009 – 08/2010: DFG Fellowship, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology (BGHS), Bielefeld University
  • 11/2007–10/2009: Research Assistant with special teaching responsibilities, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • 01/2007–08/2007: Contract for services in the research project “Ritalin in Everyday Life: On the Self-Image of Boys with an ADHD Diagnosis,” Goethe University Frankfurt/Sigmund Freud Institute Frankfurt
  • 10/2004–12/2006: Postdoctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group “Public Spheres and
    Gender Relations: Dimensions of Experience” (Frankfurt/Kassel)
  • 10/2004: Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) from the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
  • 10/1999–10/2002: Doctoral candidate in the DFG Research Training Group “Public Spheres and Gender Relations: Dimensions of Experience” (Frankfurt/Kassel)
  • 1991–1996: Studied sociology, philosophy, and political science at Justus Liebig University Giessen