Anna Perlina

Predoctoral Research Fellow

Excellence Cluster 264 „Topoi“

Residence: September 1, 2008 - March 31, 2012

Profile

Current work:

The research project focuses on the emergence and establishment of applied social psychology in the North American, West European, and Soviet academic culture in the period between 1910 and 1970. The realization of the first socio-psychological investigations on individual-group and inter-group relationships not only induced the institutionalization of a new academic discipline, but also led to the introduction of new cooperation procedures between academic social science and society. Major aims of the project are, firstly, to delineate the varying local architectures of socio-psychological concepts and practices determined within the triangle of academic cultures, context-based geopolitical, economic and cultural conditions, and science-maker biographies. Secondly, the mutual interrelation between the international spread and the local transformation of knowledge and practices will be investigated.

Research interests:

·       Epistemic history of social science

·       Transformation of psychological concepts

·       Interrelations between science and society in the 19th and 20th century

·       Intellectual migration

·       Academic cultures and institutionalization of science

·       Transfer and transformation of knowledge systems