Sophia Wagemann

Sophia Wagemann

Research Fellow

Vice-Rector for Excellence Development: Research and Transfer
Rektoratsgebäude
Ritterstraße 26, Room 212
04109 Leipzig

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

  • Hormonal Contraception: an Object between the History of Pharmacy, Gender History and History of the Body (Winter 2022)

  • Regional Anthropology: Asia. "South Asia" (Summer 2018)

  • Regional Anthropology: Asia. "South Asia" (Summer 2017)

Research fields

Federal Republic of Germany, Anthropology, Gender studies, History, Gynaecology, Cultural studies, History of medicine, Psychosomatic medicine

Specializations

  • 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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