Dr. Sarah Lenz
PostDoc
Senior Researcher, Research and teaching
- E-Mail:
- sarah.lenz@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-3322
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Pohlweg 55
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- N2.307
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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).
Is digitalization a problem solver or a fire accelerator? Situating digital technologies in sustainability discourses
S. Lenz, Social Science Information (2021).
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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)