Gertraud Koch

Gertraud Koch (* 1964 ) is Professor of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg .

Life

Gertraud Koch studied cultural anthropology and European ethnology , political science as well as theater, film and television studies at the universities in Frankfurt and Tübingen. She produced a documentary and wrote an academic paper on film as a medium and source of cultural studies. In 1999 she did her doctorate in European ethnology with Wolfgang Kaschuba at the Humboldt University in Berlin on the genesis of technology as a cultural process using the example of artificial intelligence . She then worked in adult education and designed a mentoring program for female students at the University of Konstanz . In 2001 she became a research assistant at the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences in the Technology and Gender Competence Center. In May 2003 she became professor for communication science and knowledge anthropology at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen. She has been Professor of Folklore / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg since 2013. She is a member of the Expert Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German Commission for UNESCO.

Publications

• On the culturality of the genesis of technology. Practices, policies and knowledge cultures of artificial intelligence. Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 2005 ISBN 3-86110-381-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gertraud Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gertraud Koch on the website of the University of Hamburg