{"id":18685,"date":"2025-11-06T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&p=18685"},"modified":"2026-02-26T21:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:54:54","slug":"alina-wandelt","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/alina-wandelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Alina Wandelt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alina is a cultural sociologist specializing in qualitative research methodologies and methods as well as historical sociology.<\/p>\n

Since 11\/2025, she has been a PostDoc at the research project “CryoCultures. Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling”<\/a>. At CryoCultures, her research focuses on ethnographies of the artificial cold, particularly in the domains of food and space cooling. Aiming to explore how cooling technologies unfold in practice, her research pays attention to the historical genealogies and material manifestations of cooling practices as well as the modes through which they are sustained and maintained.<\/p>\n

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Before joining CryoCultures, Alina held positions at the Chair of Interpretative Methods (Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheffer) and the Chair of Sociological Theory and the History of Theory (Prof. Dr. Doris Schweitzer) at Goethe University Frankfurt.<\/p>\n

Alina earned her PhD in Cultural Sociology from the University of Leipzig. Drawing on historical discourse analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, her dissertation<\/a> traces continuities and discontinuities in the discourses, materialities, and practices that have shaped libraries since the mid-19th century \u2013 not only as public institutions of knowledge but as material and architectural environments.<\/p>\n

She is an associated researcher of the Collaborative Research Center \u201cRefiguration of Spaces\u201d (CRC 1265)<\/a> in Berlin, part of the DFG-funded scientific network \u201cLaw in the Anthropocene\u201d (RiA)<\/a> as well as a member of the Network for Architectural Research<\/a> and the Section for Cultural Sociology within the German Sociological Association<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina (2025): Bibliotheken im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung: eine historische Architektursoziologie. Frankfurt \/ New York: Campus Verlag. doi:10.12907\/978-3-593-46149-6.<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina (2024): \u201eWohnen erz\u00e4hlen? Potenziale und Grenzen narrativ-biografischer Interviews
\nzur Erhebung von Wohnbiografien\u201c, in: Wohnen erforschen: Method(olog)ische Zug\u00e4nge und
\nforschungspraktische Reflexionen. doi: 10.14361\/9783839474648<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina (2023): \u201eEditorial\u201c in: Soziologiemagazin. Sonderheft, 8, Soziologien des Wohnens
\nheute: 6-11. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.8131201<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina\/Schmidt-Lux, Thomas (2022): \u201cInfinite Expansion, Unlimited Access, Encompassing Comfort. An Analysis of the Effects of Digitalization in Libraries after 1995\u201d, in: Historical Social Research 47 (3): 202-230. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.12759\/hsr.47.2022.31<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina\/Schmidt-Lux, Thomas (2022): “Architektur als Heilmittel? Corona und die Mikroarchitekturen der Pandemie”, Blog des Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe). https:\/\/recentglobe.hypotheses.org\/770<\/p>\n

Coughlan, Johannes\/Wandelt, Alina (2021): \u201cCollective Review: Current Approaches in Germanspeaking Sociology: Navigating Agency and Experience\u201d, in: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina\/Schmidt-Lux, Thomas (2021): \u201eMikroarchitekturen der Pandemie: R\u00e4ume des Arbeitens in Zeiten von Corona\u201c, in: Covid-19: Sinn in der Krise: Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen der Corona-Pandemie. De Gruyter, S. 183\u2013204. doi: 10.1515\/9783110734942.<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina (2021) \u201eAlgorithmische Gouvernementalit\u00e4t am Beispiel von OKCupid. Forschungsbericht\u201c, online verf\u00fcgbar auf dem Publikationsserver der Universit\u00e4t Leipzig: https:\/\/nbn-resolving.org\/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-757387<\/p>\n

Kellermann, Sascha\/Wandelt, Alina (2019): \u201cReclaim the Smart Home\u201d, in: Kritisch Lesen, 2019 Gebaute Gesellschaft\/Nr. 51.<\/p>\n

Wandelt, Alina (2018): Critique as (preceding) Political Autonomy, in: Phoenix Journal of Philosophy, Jg.\/Issue 1.<\/p>\n

Anheier, Helmut K.\/Koyro, Charlotte\/Heede, Alexis\/Berneaud-K\u00f6tz, Malte\/Wandelt, Alina\/Rheinbay, Janna (2017): Gender Equality Policy in the Arts, Culture and Media. Comparative Perspectives. Forschungsbericht. Berlin: Hertie School of Governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":18015,"template":"","person_category":[277],"class_list":["post-18685","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-forschende"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/18685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=18685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}