Department of Science and Technology Studies

Research Interests

Dr. Christine Leuenberger's research is specialized in Science & Technology Studies, qualitative methods, sociology of medicine, classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, interactional sociology, sociology of culture, gender studies, transformation studies of Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace Studies, and the sociology and history of the human and behavioral sciences. Her current research projects focus on the social impact of the West Bank Barrier and on the history and sociology of the human sciences in the Middle East.

Recent Courses Taught

• Spring 2013 - (BSOC/STS 3111) Sociology of Medicine
  MW: 1:25-2:15, 4 Credits
  
  
• Spring 2013 - (STS 4301) Social Studies of Space, Technologies and Borders
  W: 10:10-12:05, 4 Credits
  
  
• Spring 2012 - (BSOC/STS 3111) Sociology of Medicine
  MWF: 11:15-12:05, 4 Credits
  
  
• Spring 2012 - (STS 4531) Knowledge and Society
  W: 10:10-12:05, 4 Credits.
  
  
• Fall 2011 - (STS 4531) Knowledge and Society
  W: 10:10-12:05, 4 Credits
  
  
• Fall 2011 - (STS 4951) Social Studies of the Human Sciences W: 2:30-4:25, 4 Credits
  
  
• Spring 2011 - (STS 4951) Social Studies of the Human Sciences
  W: 2:30-4:25, 4 Credits
  
  
• Spring 2011 - (STS 6311) Qualitative Research Methods for Studying Science
  W: 10:10-12:05, 4 Credits
  
  
• Fall 2010 - (STS 1118) FWS: Health, Risk and Society:
  MW: 2:55-4:10, 3 Credits
  

Selected Publications

• The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences. Osiris, 22, (co-edited with Greg Eghigian and Andreas Killan).  Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.
  http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2007/22/1
  
  
• Erving Goffman. Rede-Weisen: Formen der Kommunikation in sozialen Situationen (co-edited with Hubert Knoblauch and Bernt Schnettler).  Konstanz: UVK Verlagsgelsellschaft, 2005.
  
  
• "From the Berlin Wall to the West Bank Barrier: How material objects and psychological theories can be used to construct individual and cultural traits", in Katharina Gerstenberger and Jana Braziel (eds.) (2011) After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan).
  http://us.macmillan.com/aftertheberlinwall/KatharinaGerstenberger#toc
  
  
• "The West Bank Wall as Canvas: Art and Graffiti in Palestine/Israel," Palestine-Israel Journal: Jerusalem - In the Eye of the Storm, 17 (1&2), 2011.
  http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=1350
  
  
• "The Politics of Maps: Constructing National Territories in Israel" (with Izhak Schnell), Social Studies of Science, 2010: 40/6: 803-842.  Also published Online First, September 1, 2010 as doi:10.1177/0306312710370377.
  http://sss.sagepub.com/content/40/6/803.abstract
  
  
• Cultures of Categories: Psychological Diagnoses as Institutional and Political Projects Before and After the Transition from State Socialism in 1989 in East Germany," Osiris, 22.  Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521748
  
  
• "Introduction: The Self as a Political and Scientific Project in the 20th Century" (with Greg Eghigian and Andreas Killan), Osiris, 22.  Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007.
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521740
  

• "Constructions of the Berlin Wall: How Material Culture is used in Psychological Theory", Social Problems. 53/1. February 2006: 18-37.
  http://www.jstor.org/stable/4488150