Hi,
I am Meta, an interdisciplinarily trained sociologist interested in the sociology of (social) sciences and social theory from a critical global perspective.
My work revolves around the governance and inequalities of science: Having worked on the intersection of sociology of science approaches (works that conceive knowledge production as a genuinely social process) and post-, decolonial and southern contributions that highlight global inequalities and colonial legacies of knowledge production, I am currently focussing on questions more broadly related to the (self-)governance of science. This includes thinking about research evaluation regimes and how they affect the work practices of scholars, disciplinary and regional publishing cultures, entrenched institutional and global inequalities and in doing so, building on social theory that is attentive to relations of power.
I am a Senior Researcher at the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, working on a collaborative project on "Predatory publishing practices” with Prof. M. Reinhart and an international and interdisciplinary team.
I am also teaching a seminar on "Introduction into classical sociological theory" at the University of Potsdam this semester.
I am Meta, an interdisciplinarily trained sociologist interested in the sociology of (social) sciences and social theory from a critical global perspective.
My work revolves around the governance and inequalities of science: Having worked on the intersection of sociology of science approaches (works that conceive knowledge production as a genuinely social process) and post-, decolonial and southern contributions that highlight global inequalities and colonial legacies of knowledge production, I am currently focussing on questions more broadly related to the (self-)governance of science. This includes thinking about research evaluation regimes and how they affect the work practices of scholars, disciplinary and regional publishing cultures, entrenched institutional and global inequalities and in doing so, building on social theory that is attentive to relations of power.
I am a Senior Researcher at the Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, working on a collaborative project on "Predatory publishing practices” with Prof. M. Reinhart and an international and interdisciplinary team.
I am also teaching a seminar on "Introduction into classical sociological theory" at the University of Potsdam this semester.
In my PhD, I have examined the research and career practices of Anglo-Caribbean social scientists within global inequalities and colonial legacies based on fieldwork and interviews. Supervised by Prof. M. Boatcă, I aimed to advance existing macro-theoretical work by a practice-focussed empirical contribution.
A monograph based on the PhD project will be forthcoming with Bristol University Press in their "Decolonisation and Social Worlds" Series.
Academic Background
I started my academic journey with an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s programme in "Sociology, Politics and Economics" at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. Exchange semesters at the University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2017) and in Tel Aviv (Spring 2017) enabled me to experience different academic cultures first-hand. This inspired me to write my B.A. Thesis on student mobility in academia at the chair for sociological theory, supervised by Prof. M. Lehmann.
After finishing my B.A., I got the opportunity to work as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. There, I gained profound experience researching in a large interdisciplinary team and video and situational analysis via assisting Prof. S. Malthaner in a project on escalation dynamics during the G20 protests in Hamburg in 2017.
Afterwards, I enrolled in the M.A. "Social Sciences" programme at Humboldt University Berlin, where I focussed on the sociology of borders and migration and (postcolonial) urban sociology. Additionally, I gained research experience by working as a student assistant for Prof. S. Mau. During another exchange semester at King's College London (Fall 2019), I further enrolled in Global and area studies courses in which I encountered works from post- and decolonial perspectives that inspired my PhD project. The dissertation furthermore builds on my work in the sociology of science in the context of my M.A. Thesis at the Chair for Science Studies at HU Berlin, in which I analysed the emergence of the German Sociology of Violence as a group.
A monograph based on the PhD project will be forthcoming with Bristol University Press in their "Decolonisation and Social Worlds" Series.
Academic Background
I started my academic journey with an interdisciplinary Bachelor’s programme in "Sociology, Politics and Economics" at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. Exchange semesters at the University of Oxford (Michaelmas 2017) and in Tel Aviv (Spring 2017) enabled me to experience different academic cultures first-hand. This inspired me to write my B.A. Thesis on student mobility in academia at the chair for sociological theory, supervised by Prof. M. Lehmann.
After finishing my B.A., I got the opportunity to work as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research. There, I gained profound experience researching in a large interdisciplinary team and video and situational analysis via assisting Prof. S. Malthaner in a project on escalation dynamics during the G20 protests in Hamburg in 2017.
Afterwards, I enrolled in the M.A. "Social Sciences" programme at Humboldt University Berlin, where I focussed on the sociology of borders and migration and (postcolonial) urban sociology. Additionally, I gained research experience by working as a student assistant for Prof. S. Mau. During another exchange semester at King's College London (Fall 2019), I further enrolled in Global and area studies courses in which I encountered works from post- and decolonial perspectives that inspired my PhD project. The dissertation furthermore builds on my work in the sociology of science in the context of my M.A. Thesis at the Chair for Science Studies at HU Berlin, in which I analysed the emergence of the German Sociology of Violence as a group.
