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About Sarah Lenz

Curriculum Vitae

01.07.2026 - 31.12.2026: Feodor Lynen Fellowship / Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, School of Communication and Culture, Department of Digital Design and Information Studies (Host: Prof Jussi Parikka), Aarhus University

Since 01.04.2025: Research Associate (Post doc), Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Paderborn

Since 2020: Associate Researcher, Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin

03/2026: Habilitation Sociology at Hamburg Universitys Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

2019 - 2025: Research Associate (postdoc) DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies Futures of Sustainability

06.02.2024 - 10.09.2024: Visiting Professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Graz, Austria

01.03.2023 - 01.05.2023: Stipendium, London School of Economics and Political Science, London (LSE), Vereinigtes Königreich

2018 - 2019: Research Associate, Departement of Sociology, Social Inequality, University of Basel

2015 - 2018: Research Associate DFG project Popular Views on Inequality and Justice in Germany, Goethe University Frankfurt

2017: Dissertation Ethische Geldinstitute. Normative Orientierungen und Kritik im Bankenwesen, Institute of Sociology, Goethe University Frankfurt

2013 - 2015: Research Associate Die Berufsmoral der Banker. Milieubildungen und Professionsethiken im globalen Finanzwesen, Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, Goethe University Frankfurt

2012 - 2013: Researcher, Economic Sociology, University of Trier

2005 - 2012: Magister degree in Sociology and German language and literature, University of Trier

Research

Research Interests

  • Sociology of technology
  • Economic sociology
  • Culture and morals of economy
  • Analysis of capitalism
  • Social inequality
  • Pragmatism
  • Sustainability
  • Digitalisation
  • Qualitative research

Publications

Selected Publications

Sustainability, Climate Change and Convention Theory

S. Lenz, in: Handbook of Economics and Sociology of Conventions, 2025.


Analyzing Infrastructures in the Anthropocene

P. Degens, S. Lenz, I. Hilbrich, Historical Social Research (2022).


Digitalisierung und Nachhaltigkeit

S. Lenz, A. Henkel, in: Handbuch Umweltsoziologie, 2023.



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Teaching


Current Courses

  • Wut, Werte, Wandel. Moral in Kultur, Gesellschaft und Geschichte
  • Soziologische Zeitdiagnosen
  • Soziologie der Kindheit (digital) II (MA)
  • Soziologie der Kindheit (digital) I (BA)