Dr. Georgia Samaras

Lecturer

Studies in German Philology, Comparative Cultural Studies and European Ethnology with a focus on Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Regensburg and Humboldt University Berlin (degree 2015). From June 2015 – December 2020 PhD candidate and researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich. September 2020 submission of the dissertation with the title: “Re-Enacting Stress in the Lab. On Environmental Epigenetics, Social Adversity and the Molecularisation of Mental Health.” Since September 2018 research associate in the DFG-funded project “Situating Environmental Epigenetics. A Comparative, Actor-Centered Study of Environmental Epigenetics as an Emergent Research Approach in Three Research Fields” (led by Prof. Ruth Müller).

Dissertation: Re-Enacting Stress in the Lab. On Environmental Epigenetics, Social Adversity and the Molecularisation of Mental Health.

  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)
  • Qualitative methods of social research
  • Anthropology and Epistemology of the Life Sciences
  • Health Policy
  • Politics of Care

  • Samaras, Georgia (2019): „Care Revisited. Behandeln und Begutachten als Spannungsfeld in der psychiatrischen Praxis mit Flüchtlingen.“ In: Binder, Beate et al. (ed.) Care: Praktiken und Politiken der Fürsorge: Ethnographische und geschlechtertheoretische Perspektiven. Opladen, Berlin & Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich, 279-92.
  • Müller, Ruth & Samaras, Georgia (2018): “Epigenetics and Aging Research. Between Adult Malleability and Early Life Programming.” BioSocieties,1-22.
  • Müller, Ruth/ Hanson, Claire/ Hanson, Mark/ Penkler, Michael/ Samaras, Georgia et al. (2107): “The Biosocial Genome? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Epigenetics, Health and Society.” EMBO reports, 18(10), 1677-82.
  • Forschungskollektiv Psychiatrische Praxen (2014): „Psychiatrische Behandlung als vielfältige Praxis.“ In: Bister, Milena D. & Niewöhner, Jörg (Hrsg.): Alltag in der Psychiatrie im Wandel. Ethnographische Perspektiven auf Wissen, Technologie und Autonomie. Berliner Blätter. Berlin: Panama Verlag, Bd.66 / 2014, 22-97.

Selection

  • Environmental Epigenetics and Mental Health Research: Enacting Trauma in the Lab.EASST Conference, Lancaster (Juli 2018).
  • The Plasticity of Epigenetics: An Ethnography of the Enactment of Epigenetic Perspectives in a Psychiatric Research Laboratory. Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Boston (September 2017).
  • Illness and Asylum Policy: Care in a Berlin Psychiatric Clinic.EASST Conference, Barcelona (September 2016).
  • Psychologische Gutachten, Aufenthaltsrecht und Care: Behandeln und Begutachten als Spannungsfeld in der psychologischen Fürsorge für Migrant*innen mit ungeklärtem Aufenthaltsstatus.  Arbeitstagung der Kommission Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv), Hamburg (Februar 2016).