Elvira Sheikh

Elvira Scheich (* 1953 in Hanau ) is a German physicist and sociologist .

Life

Scheich first studied physics at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Diploma 1980). In 1989 she completed her doctorate there with a dissertation on the Control of Nature and Femininity: Forms of Thought and Phantasms of Modern Natural Sciences . After completing her habilitation with an analysis of the sociological understanding of science, she worked at the TU Berlin from 2004 ; partly she worked as a visiting professor . She is professor for the history of science and the theory of science in physics, with a special focus on gender studies, at the Faculty of Physics at the Free University of Berlin . Her current focus is on gender studies in physics and the history of physics, in particular on gender dimensions in the history of objectivity, on gender relations in scientific specialist cultures and in the cultural and political contexts of energy issues. Elvira Scheich also taught at the Center for Gender Research at Uppsala University . Sheikh was a member of the editorial team of the journal Wechselffekt - Technik, Naturwissenschaft, Gesellschaft , which was published in Berlin for several years .

Web links

• FU Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see entry of the dissertation in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/931352010
2. ↑ Elvira Scheich: From "Researcher's Conscience" and "Peace Women": The Political Memory of West German Post-War Society and the Science of Physics. On the political context and the historical conditions of the sociological understanding of science, TU Berlin 2003.
3. ↑ Appointment 2004
4. ↑ Elvira Scheich, Karen Wagels (ed.): Body Space Transformation. Münster 2011.
5. ↑ see interview with Elvira Scheich, Barbara Orland and Reinhard Behnisch on March 9, 2016 at the ETH Zurich on interaction (PDF), published in "After work - Zurich yearbook for the history of knowledge (2016)