Profile
Abstract
Sophia Wagemann is currently a research associate at the Leipzig Lab "Global Health" and is doing her doctorate on the topic "Risk Prevention: The Pill and Its Side Effects 1961-1990". She studied Cultural Anthropology at Leipzig University. She received the pre-doctoral scholarship from the Global and Area Studies Graduate School and a state graduate scholarship in Saxony from 2020-2023. She taught at Leipzig University in Cultural Anthropology, the Medical Faculty and in Comparative Cultural and Social History.
Professional career
- since 10/2023
Research Assistant at the Interdisciplinary Research Group Global Health - since 04/2023
Research Assistant at the Project „Risky Hormones, pregnant patients and the contested science of birth defects: the rise and fall of hormone pregnancy tests in the FRG and UK, 1950–81“ (DFG/AHRC)
Education
- 10/2017 - 03/2020
Master of Arts Anthropology, University of Leipzig - 10/2014 - 09/2017
Bachelor of Arts Anthropology, University of Leipzig
History of the Body and Gender History
History of Drug Safety and Risk Communication
History of Hormones and Reproduction
Holistic Discourses in German Medicine after 1945
Actor-Network Theory, Science and Technology Studies
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Hormonal Contraception: an Object between the History of Pharmacy, Gender History and History of the Body (Winter 2022)
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Regional Anthropology: Asia. "South Asia" (Summer 2018)
mit PD Dr. Claudia Lang
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Regional Anthropology: Asia. "South Asia" (Summer 2017)
mit Prof. Ursula Rao