Christine Leuenberger Joins Graduate Minor Field in Peace Studies
Christine Leuenberger, PACS
Prof. Leuenberger (STS) may now serve as a faculty advisor and committee member in the peace studies minor field of study in the Graduate School. The minor graduate field of peace studies and peace science is an academic program of the Reppy Institute. Learn more about the peace studies minor here.
Learn more about Professor Leuenberger:
Dr. Christine Leuenberger is a senior lecturer at the Department of Science & Technology Studies. She is also a faculty member at Cornell in Washington. Her research is specialized in S&TS, qualitative methods, sociology of medicine, classical and contemporary sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, interactional sociology, sociology of culture, transformation studies of Eastern Europe, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace Studies, and the sociology and history of the human and behavioral sciences. Her current research is on the social impact of borders and barriers in a global context and the history and sociology of cartography in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. She is also engaged in peace and educational initiatives in conflict regions in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Learn more about her research:
New book explores maps as tools of political power, Cornell Chronicle
Maps as Politics by Christine Leuenberger, writing in Geography Directions