Dr. Jan Hinrichsen
Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Dr. Jan Hinrichsen
Georg-August-University
University Medical Center Göttingen
Department for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Tel.: +49(0)551 39 69008
Mail: jan.hinrichsen(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Office: 2.109
Jan Hinrichsen is an anthropologist of knowledge and science and has been a research fellow at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen since November 2022. Previously, he was a university assistant at the Institute of History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck, a Research Fellow at the University of Virginia, a research associate at the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen, and coordinator of the Exploration Fund “Discomforting Heritage”.
He received his doctorate in the context of the Tübingen Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Orders – Societies Under Stress" with a technology- and knowledge-historical thesis on technologies of avalanche defense in the Alpine region. His theoretical focus is on science and technology studies (STS) and historical anthropology of knowledge. As a cultural scientist, the interweaving of technology, science and society is always at the center of his interest. Currently, he working on the practices of producing valid data on the immunogenicity of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Furthermore, he is concerned with morality and ethics as everyday cultural practices, which are raised in his current research especially in questions of "informed consent" in the context of emerging biotechnologies.
Career
Since November 2022: Postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen.
2020-2022: Postdoctoral university assistant at the Department of History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck
2020: Research fellow at the Department of Anthropology/Chair of Bioethics, University of Virginia, USA
2019: Doctoral degree (Dr. rer.soc.) from the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Tübingen
2017-2020: Postdoctoral research associate/lecturer at the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen
2016-2017: Coordinator of the Exploration Fund “Discomforting Heritage”
2011-2015: Research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 “Threatened Orders — Societies under Stress”, Project B03 “Avalanches as a Threat to Social Order”
2003-2010 Studies in Historical and Cultural Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Tübingen
Research areas
- Science and Technology Studies
- Historical anthropology of sciences and knowledge
- Moral/ethical anthropology
- Praxiography
Publications (selection)
Monography:
- Unsicheres Ordnen. Lawinenabwehr, Galtür 1884-2014. Tübingen: MohrSiebeck 2020.
Edited Volumes:
- Diversities. Theories and Practices. Festschrift für Reinhard Johler. Tübingen: TVV 2020 (mit Jan Lange und Raphael Reichel).
- Forme(l)n des guten Lebens. Ethnografische Erkundungen alltäglicher Aushandlungen von Glück und Moral. Tübingen: TVV 2019 (mit Monique Scheer).
Articles:
- Eigensinnige Bedrohungsdiagnosen. Oder: Wie aus der Katastrophe „kulturelles Erbe“ wird, in: Krisen anders denken. Wie Menschen mit Bedrohungen umgegangen sind und was wir daraus lernen können, hrsg. von Ewald Frie u.a.. Berlin: Propyläen 2022 (in Arbeit).
- Vorwurf als Diagnose? Über Ethik, Schildkröten und unangenehme Gleichzeitigkeiten. Eine Replik auf Eges „Ethisierung als Diagnose und Vorwurf“, in: Stadt – Migration – Moral. Analysen der lokalen Moralisierung der Migration, hrsg. von Jan Lange/Manuel Dieterich. Tübingen: TVV 2022, S. 231-239.
- Regime des Atmens und die Sorge um Immunität. Kulturtheoretische Sondierungen, in: Welt.Wissen.Gestalten. 42. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in Hamburg 2019 (=Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie. Band 13), hrsg. von Gertraud Koch/ Johannes Moser/Lara Hansen/Stefanie Mallon. Hamburg 2021, S. 382-392.
- Assemblagen des Raumes und Topographien der Unsicherheit. Raumordnung und Gefahrenzonierung als Techniken der Erzeugung von Evidenz alpiner Naturgefahr, in: Wissensmedien des Raums. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven (= Zürcher Beiträge zur Alltagskultur, 23), hrsg. von Jean Louis Georget/Christine Hämmerling/Richard Kuba/Bernhard Tschofen, Zürich: Chronos 2020, S. 185-204.
- Moralische Problematisierungen, oder: Wozu soll eine Ethnografie des guten Lebens gut sein?, in: Forme(l)n des guten Lebens. Ethnografische Erkundungen alltäglicher Aushandlungen von Glück und Moral, hrsg. von Jan Hinrichsen/Monique Scheer, Tübingen: TVV 2019, S. 5-41.
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