Dr. Xenia Steinbach
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- 2024–present: Postdoctoral researcher in the CRC 1665 “„Sexdiversity – Determinants, Meanings and Implications of Sex Diversity in Socio-Cultural, Medical and Biological Landscapes” at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine, Hannover Medical School
- 2024–present: Teaching Assistant at the Professorship in Science and Technology Studies, University College Freiburg
- 2023–2024: Teaching Assistant at the Chair of the History of Science and Technology, Technical University of Braunschweig
- March 2023: Completion of a Dr. phil. in the History of Science (University of Braunschweig, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bettina Wahrig)
- 2015–2017: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Chair for Sociology of Science, Technical University of Munich
- 2013–2014: Teaching and Research Assistant at the Department of Biological and Differential Psychology, University of Freiburg
- 2013: Diploma in Biology and Anthropology (University of Freiburg)
Dr. Xenia Steinbach’s interests lie at the intersection of history, sociology and biology. She wrote a book about the emergence of theories around hormones and the human psyche in the first half of the 20th century and is currently looking at the path dependencies of past and current endocrinological experimental systems in sex development research, in order to critically question the gendered conditions of this research from a feminist STS perspective.
Dr. Xenia Steinbach is involved in teaching the course Students and Other Knowers in Context in the foundational year.
- Steinbach, Xenia (2023). Hormone und Psyche – Eine Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte psychoendokriner Vorstellungen, 1900-1950. Bielefeld: transcript.
- Steinbach, Xenia & Maasen, Sabine (2018). Oxytocin: Vom Geburts- zum Sozialhormon. Zur hormonellen Regulation von Soziabilität aka Gesellschaft. NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 26(1), 1–30.