Silke Guelker

Silke Guelker received her doctoral degree (Dr.phil) in political science from the Free University in Berlin, Germany, and her habilitation in sociology from the University of Leipzig. She has been working in the field of science studies for many years and is interested in the relationship between science and religion from a sociology of science and a sociology of knowledge perspective. For her recent book Transzendenz in der Wissenschaft, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in two stem cell research labs, one in the United States and one in Germany. Currently, she is working on a project about constructions of ‘(un-)availability’ of health and disease based on case studies in the United States, Brazil, and Germany.