Dr. Julia Böcker is an adjunct researcher in the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded │ H2R, sub-project 3 Ethnography of Human Reproduction in Single Case Studies in Threshold Areas at the University of Zurich.

Julia’s research interests lie in the fields of cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge, medical anthropology, personhood, body and emotions. In her PhD project on pregnancy loss, she has explored how miscarriages and stillbirths are socially acknowledged as deaths and losses of (unborn) children. Following up on this, she pursues research on other reproductive losses like unsuccessful fertility treatment and on laws affecting reproductive experiences and rights. 

Education

• PhD (“summa cum laude”), Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany (2021)
• Magistra Artium (M.A.) in Cultural Sciences, Psychology and Indology, Leipzig University, Germany (2012)

Work and Research experience

• Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation, Leuphana University Lüneburg (since 2013)
• Lecturer in Qualitative Methods of Public Health Research, Professional School, Leuphana University Lüneburg (since 2020)
• Visiting Scholar, Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), Department of Sociology, Cambridge University, UK (2021)
• Research Assistant and Lecturer, Institute of Cultural Sciences, Leipzig University (2012)
• Ethnographic Fieldwork in Goa, India, funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (2011)