Dr. Kornelia Engert

Fields of Interest

Theories of Practice and Interaction
Social Studies of Science
Communication and Media Studies
Sociology of Knowledge
Qualitative Methods

 

Academic Education

05/2019 Dr. phil. in Sociology, University of Mainz
Dissertation: The Body of Knowledge. Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
2008 Research Assistant at the Department of Sociology, Institute of Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
2008 Master of Arts
Master's Thesis: Die Sozio-Logik (natur-)wissenschaftlicher Praxis. Situiertheiten und Verfasstheiten von Wissen (The socio-logic of (natural-) scientific practice. Situatedness and constitution of knowledge)
2006-2008 Master of Arts in Communication and Cultural Management, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
2005 Dipl. Ing. (for Media)
Diploma Thesis: Multimodale Medienrezeption als Herausforderung für die Medienwirkungsforschung (Multimodal media reception as a challenge for media impact research)
2000-2005 Studies of Media and Information Engineering and Design at Offenburg University and Studies of Media Arts at University of Western Sydney, Australia.

 

Professional / Academic Positions

since 2021 Member (Post-Doc) in the DFG Research-Project "Universitäre Urteile"/"Academic Judgements"
2016-2019 Member in the DFG Research Group: Un/doing Differences. Practices in Human Differentiation. Project: Non-school evaluation. Universities and free schools between the requirement of differentiation and institutionalized contrasts
2014-2016 Parental leave
since 2008 Research Associate, Institute of Sociology at the Department of Knowledge, Education and Qualitative Methods, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
2005-2006 Trainee at Weischer.Mediagroup (elbbergmedia), Hamburg

Publications

Monographs and Edited Volumes

The Body of Knowledge. Fieldwork and Conceptualization in Social Inquiry. London/New York: Routledge 2022. Access
Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation. Nature + Culture, 16 (1), März 2021. (Special Issue with Christiane Schürkmann). Access
Komplexe Regionen. Regionenkomplexe. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag 2009 (ed. with Marissa Hey). Access

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Zwischen Kontingenz und Curricula. Bewertungsprozesse in der universitären Lehre. In: Soziale Welt 74(3), 2023 pp. 335-361 (with Herbert Kalthoff). Access

Introduction: Posthuman? Nature and Culture in Renegotiation. In: Nature + Culture, 16 (1), march 2021 , pp.1-10 (with Christiane Schürkmann). Access

Das lesende Schreiben und das schreibende Lesen. Zur epistemischen Arbeit an und mit wissenschaftlichen Texten (Reading Writing/Writing Reading. On Epistemic Work with Scientific Texts.) In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 42 (5), 2013, pp. 366-384 (with Björn Krey). Access

Chapters in Edited Volumes

The Panopticon of Evaluation in Educational Organizations. In: Anne Krüger, Thorsten Peetz, Hilmar Schäfer (eds.): The Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society; Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge, 2023 (with Herbert Kalthoff) (to appear).

Instruktion und ihre Teilnehmer: Was ist in einem Seminar? In: Daniel Meyer/Julia Reuter/Oliver Berli (eds.): Ethnographie der Hochschule. Bielefeld: transcript, 2022, pp. 83-106. Access

Universitäre Bewertung. Die Geschichtswissenschaft und die Einsätze ihrer Mitglieder. In: Frank Meier/Thorsten Peetz (Hg.): Organisation und Bewertung. VS Springer, 2021, pp. 239-270. (with Herbert Kalthoff). Access

Soziologie als Praxis. Von den Eigenheiten ein Habitat zu beforschen, zu dem man selbst gehört. In: Reiner Keller/Angelika Poferl (eds.): Wissenskulturen der Soziologie. Bad Langensalza: Beltz Juventa, 2018, pp. 40-71. Access

Einleitung: Von Komplexitäten und Regionen. In: Marissa Hey/Kornelia Engert (eds.): Komplexe Regionen - Regionenkomplexe. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 2009, pp. 9-17 (with Marissa Hey et. al.). Access

Reviews

"Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises.", Book Review in Symbolic Interaction 46(2), 2023, pp. 239-243.

Teaching Experiences

Qualitative Methods

Research training Universitäre Urteile/Academic Judgements (winter term 2021/22 until summer term 2022)
Seminar Sociology of (Higher) Education, co-teaching with Tristan Dittrich (summer term 2019)
Seminar Focus group research and interviewing experts, co-teaching with Dr. Christiane Schürkmann (summer term 2017)
Seminar Interview research, co-teaching with Miriam Chebbah (summer term 2013)
Seminar Camera Research (WS 2020/21)
Research Training Knowledge and Creative Work. Ethnographic explorations into the ‘New’ I/II
(summer term 2012 until winter term 2012/13 for master’s degree) (four hours a week)
Seminar Qualitative Methods (winter terms 2008/09, 2010/11, 2018719, 2019720 summer terms 2009 and 2012)

General and Special Sociology

Seminar Reading Goffman (in English, summer term 2013)
Seminar Social Studies of Science, co-teaching with Herbert Kalthoff (summer term 2012)
Seminar Sociology of Gesture (summer term 2011)
Seminar Theories of Interaction (winter term 2010/11)
Seminar Reading Goffmann (summer term 2009)

Sociology of Education

Lecture Society and Socialization (summer term 2018, winter term 2019/20, winter term 2020/21)
Seminar Society and Socialization (winter terms 2008/09 and2017/18)
Research Training Research workshop (Ethnography, Grounded Theory) for master’s degree in Education II (winter term 2016/17)
Seminar Communication and Interaction (summer terms  2009, 2010 and 2016, winter term 2009/10)
Seminar Social Differences in Education (winter term 2008/09, summer term 2016)
Seminar Going to school with Goffman (summer term 2001)

 

Invited Lectures and Conference Papers

„The field – a concept between sociological, ecological, and methodological readings”, paper presented at the concept workshop “Re: Constructs | Exchanges between STS and Sociology”, University of Essex, Dezember, 07.-08., 2023

„Medien und Formate der Selbstvergewisserung: Methodenstreit, (Auto-) Ethnographie und reflexive Wende“, Jubiläumstagung der Sektion für qualitative Methoden at the Universität Mainz, June, 22.-23., 2023

„The hidden side of teaching. Bewertungspraktiken in der akademischen Lehre“, Kommunikationswissenschaftliches Kolloquium at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, June, 21., 2023

„Multiple Übersetzungen. Lesen und Schreiben in der qualitativen Forschung“. Ad-Hoc-Group „Materiale Übersetzung, Textproduktion und Darstellungsprobleme in der qualitativen Sozialforschung“ at the 41th Congress of the German Sociological Asociation „Polarisierte Welten“, Bielefeld, September 26-30, 2022 (with Björn Krey)

„Academic valuation: Assessing student’s achievements in Higher Education”. Paper presented at the Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference, New College, University of Oxford, September 12-14, 2022

"Manuskripte im Entwurf: Von der Empirie zur Darstellungsleistung. " Ad-Hoc-Group "Wissenschaftliche Repräsentationsarbeit - Darstellung und Legitimation empirischer Forschung in Publikationen" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA)/Austrian Sociological Association (ÖGS) "Post-Corona-Gesellschaft?", Wien, August 23-25, 2021

"Returning To And Taking Up Classic ‘Studies’ Of Scientific Practice – A Domestication Of What?" Paper presented in panel "Classic STS Papers, Re-Incorporated, Reimagined, Re-enacted" at the 4S Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US, 2019

"'Seeing sociologically' in action. Towards a praxeology of sociological observations". Paper presented in the section of ‘Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis’ at the 114th ASA Annual Meeting, New York, US, 2019

„Zur (Un-)Wahrscheinlichkeit selbstreflektierender Interessiertheit“. Paper presented in Ad-hoc-panel „Ende des multiparadigmatischen Friedens? Soziale Bedingungen aktueller Kontroversen theoretischer Soziologe”, at the 39th DGS Congress, Göttingen, 2018

"'Entschulte' Bewertung: Höhere Bildung zwischen 'Credits' und akademischen Anforderungen". Congress of the section Sociology of Organisation on the topic "Organsiation and valuation", Bremen University, February 08-09, 2018

"Potenziale des Wissens und reflexiver Selbstbezug". Congress: "Selbstsein als Sich-Wissen? Zur Bedeutung der Wissensgeschichte für die Historisierbarkeit des Subjekts". International Congress at Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, January 26-28, 2017

"The site of the social sciences. Sociology in sight". Ad-hoc-group "Soziologie der Wissenskulturen. Zur Spezifik soziologischer Wissensproduktion" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA) "Routinen der Krise, Krise der Routinen", Trier, October 06-19, 2014 (with Björn Krey)

"Textual orders and orderings. The case of social scientific writing". 10th Conference of the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA), University of Fribourg, Switzerland, July 10-14, 2011 (with Björn Krey)

”Seeing writing. Zur Sichtbarkeit und Sichtbarmachung textualer Praktiken und Artefakte". Congress "Visuelle Daten Analysieren, Analyzing Visual Data", Methods of Qualitative Social Research/German Sociological Association (GSA), Universität Klagenfurt, June 3-4, 2011 (with Björn Krey)

„Ethnographie der Soziologie“. Lecture as part of the series "Grass trifft…“, Universität Münster, May 12, 2011

”Writing Sociology. Praktiken soziologischen Schreibens und ihre textualen Artefakte". ”Transnationale Vergesellschaftungen" at the Congress of the German Sociological Association (GSA), Frankfurt, 2010 (with Björn Krey)

 

Conferences and Sessions Organized

2019: Co-organizer of the 4th Symposium of Social and Cultural Studies, Mainz: "Posthuman. New Perspectives on Nature/Culture" (with Cress, Torsten; Huff, Tobias, Murawska, Oliwia; Schlitte, Annika; Schürkmann Christiane), Conference with international guests at SoCuM (Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies), Johannes Gutenberg University. https://posthuman.uni-mainz.de/

2018: Co-organizer ad-hoc-panel: “Koexistenz. Neue Perspektiven der Humandezentrierung” (with Cress, Torsten; Schürkmann, Christiane), at the 39 th DGS-Kongress, Göttingen

 

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

since 2022 Member of the DFG-Network "Textual performance in qualitative social research"
2019 DAAD-Travelgrant for ASA Annual Meeting, New York, USA
since 2017 Member of the Junior Research Group AG 3: Posthuman, Research Center of Social and Cultural Studies (SoCuM), Mainz
2010 Fellow of the 1st Summer School of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS): “Handling gesture: Theory and Method in Gesture Studies” at European University Viadrina, funded by Volkswagen Foundation (Volkswagen Stiftung)
2006-2008 Scholarship student at Zeppelin University with a Master Stipend from the German Magazine “planung&analyse”
1996-1997 Scholarship student of the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) at Tolleson Union High School in Phoenix, Arizona