Anne-Sophie Reichert

On Parental Leave from January to March 2026

Anne-Sophie Reichert works at the intersection of Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, and History to research human bodies and minds. Her interests include gender-sensitive health, human-technology interactions and interfaces, somatic and affective forms of knowledge, and processes of learning and entrainment. Sophie’s current research project explores the historical context, contemporary practice, and politics of female technologies.

Sophie studied Political Science, Political Theory, and Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Chicago. She was a visiting researcher at the Universities of California, Berkeley, and Davis, and received her PhD from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on bodily learning and habituation in movement research. Before joining the MPIWG, she worked as a research associate at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam.

Her work has been published in History of Intellectual Culture, CACHE, and Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. She frequently collaborates with artists and scientists on multimodal and public research outputs. Recent collaborations include a multi-sited interactive performance on human–plant relationality with dancer Angela Vitovec, as well as workshops on gender-sensitive health and a series of "hug machines" with writer and artist Esther Vorwerk.