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katrin.amelang@rub.de

Consultation hours on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning; arrangement of dates/times via email.

Katrin Amelang is Interim Professor at the Chair of Cultural Psychology and Anthropology of Knowledge from April to September 2023.

2016-2023:
Research Fellow & Co-Organizer of the Bremen NatureCultures Lab, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, U Bremen

Nov 2022:
Appointed Visiting Scholar of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society, TU Graz, https://www.ifz.at/en/ias-sts/fellows/

2014-2016:
Research Associate, BMBF Research Project “Epidemiological Risk Scores as Instruments of Knowledge Transfer”, Institute of Sociology, U Frankfurt/M., https://wegedeswissens.net/

2012-2014:
Lecturer, Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology, U Göttingen

2014:
Dr. phil., European Ethnology, HU Berlin – dissertation: ethnography on the production of everyday life and normality in the field of liver transplantation; defense Aug. 2012; publication: (transcript 2014).

2007-2010:
Doctoral candidate/scholarship, BMBF-research cluster „Preventive Self. Interdisciplinary Explorations of an Emergent Life Form”, Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin

2004-2007:
Research Associate, EU-Project “Challenges of Biomedicine: Socio-Cultural Contexts, European Governance and Bioethics”, Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin

2004:
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology & European Ethnology and Political Science, U Frankfurt/M.

I am a (feminist) STS-inspired cultural anthropologist who is as interested in processes of normalization and the tediousness and intricacies of everyday life as she is in naturecultures and human-technology relations. Often I work on these issues in the field of biomedicine, body and health. In my recent work, I grapple with people’s every-day encounters with digital technology, processes of datafication and the cultural dimension of software, algorithms and data. Empirically, I am currently researching period trackers (menstrual cycle apps).

Amelang, K (2023): „Wie Apps erforschen? Zum Zusammentreffen neuer Forschungsgegenstände und alter Methoden“. In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie 16, 11-28. [https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hjk/article/view/2073]

Amelang, K (2022): (Not) Safe to Use: Insecurities in Everyday Data Practices with Period-Tracking Apps. In: Hepp/Jarke/Kramp (Hg.): The Ambivalences of Data Power. New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 297-321. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96180-0_13]

Amelang, K; Egermann-Krebs, D; Eisenmann, C; Kehr, J; Kurz, H; Uhlig, M; Voss, E (Hg.) (2020 & 2021): Curare Corona Diaries. A Collection of Diaries in the Strict Sense of the Term. https://boasblogs.org/curarecoronadiaries/.

Amelang, K & Bauer, S (2019): Following the Algorithm. How Epidemiological Risk Scores Do Accountability. In: Social Studies of Science 49:4, 476-502. [https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312719862049]

Gesing, F; Knecht, M; Flitner, M & Amelang, K (Hg.) (2019): NaturenKul­tu­ren. Denkräume und Werkzeuge für neue politische Ökologien. transcript.

Amelang, K (2019): Monatliche Blutflüsse als Gesprächsstoff? Zur Neuverhandlung der Menstruation in digitalisierten Zeiten“. In: Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskun­de / Archives suisses des tradition populaires 115:1, 65-81. [https://dx.doi.org/10.5169/seals-842281]