Carolin Mezes
Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Psy-Disciplines and Medicine, biopolitics and health, psychosomatics and psychoanalysis
Bachelor studies in sociology and psychology at Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich. 2016 M.A. »Gender, Media & Culture« at Goldsmiths University of London. 2018 M.A. Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt. 2018-2022 research assistant at the special research unit »Dynamics of Security« and the working group for political sociology at Philipps-University Marburg. 2023 doctorate in sociology: »Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure«, doctorate award of Philipps-University Marburg. 2023-2025 PostDoc Fellow at InChangE, interdisciplinary research network at Bielefeld University. 2025 Member at Institut für Sozialforschung. 2025 M.A. Clinical Psychology at International Psychoanalytical University Berlin.
Mezes, Carolin, Sven Opitz und Andrea Wiegeshoff (eds.) 2025: Ecologies of disease control: Spaces of health security in historical perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Mezes, Carolin, Sven Opitz and Andrea Wiegeshoff 2025: Introduction. Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective, in: Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz and Andrea Wiegeshoff (eds.): Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 3-24.
Mezes, Carolin 2024: Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accoun-tability, Development and Infrastructure. Frankfurt am Main: campus.
Mezes, Carolin 2023: Long Covid und der 'psychosomatische Verdacht'. Polarisierungen im Problem diagnostischer Unsicherheit, in: Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (ed.): Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld 2022.
Mezes, Carolin 2020: Ambivalenzen der Sorge von Global Health Security und das Problem der response-ability, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization 13(2), p. 40-60.
Mezes, Carolin und Sven Opitz 2020: Die (un)vorbereitete Pandemie und die Grenzen der Preparedness – zur Biopolitik um COVID-19, in: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 48(3), p. 1-26.
Mezes, Carolin 2020: (Nicht-)Wissen und (Un-)Sicherheit in der Pandemie, in: Sicherheit in der Krise, Soziopolis.
Mezes, Carolin 2024: Monitoring Pandemic Preparedness. On Global Health Security's Politics of Accountability, Development and Infrastructure. Frankfurt am Main: campus.
Mezes, Carolin, Sven Opitz und Andrea Wiegeshoff (eds.) 2025: Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Mezes, Carolin, Sven Opitz and Andrea Wiegeshoff 2025: Introduction. Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective, in: Carolin Mezes, Sven Opitz and Andrea Wiegeshoff (eds.): Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 3-24.
Mezes, Carolin 2023: Long Covid und der ›psychosomatische Verdacht‹. Polarisierungen im Problem diagnostischer Unsicherheit, in: Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (ed.): Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld 2022.
Mezes, Carolin 2020: Ambivalenzen der Sorge von Global Health Security und das Problem der response-ability, in: Behemoth. A Journal on Civilization 13(2), p. 40-60.
Mezes, Carolin und Sven Opitz 2020: Die (un)vorbereitete Pandemie und die Grenzen der Preparedness – zur Biopolitik um COVID-19, in: Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft 48(3), p. 1-26.
Mezes, Carolin 2020: (Nicht-)Wissen und (Un-)Sicherheit in der Pandemie, in: Sicherheit in der Krise, Soziopolis.
Mezes, Carolin 2022: Long Covid und der psychosomatische Verdacht. Polarisierungen im Problem diagnostischer Unsicherheit. Ad-hoc Gruppe »(Ent)Polarisierende Psychotherapie? Soziologie und Psychotherapie in gesellschaftlichen Krisenzeiten«, Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Bielefeld, September 28th.
Mezes, Carolin 2021: Long Covid und das Problem diagnostischer Unsicherheit. Workshop »(Un-)Sicherheitsgefühle. Zur sinnlichen Organisation prekärer Ordnung«. Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen/online, June 11th.
Mezes, Carolin 2020: Global Health Security/Covid19. Kolloquium des Arbeitsbereiches Biotechnologie, Natur und Gesellschaft. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, May 7th.
Mezes, Carolin 2019: Ebola 2.0: die Sorge(n) von Global Health Security und das Problem der community. Workshop »Sorgende Sicherheit«. Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, November 29th.
Mezes, Carolin 2019: Infrastructuring Global Health Security. Technicalities of Administrative Technologies. 4S Konferenz. New Orleans USA, September 6th.
Mezes, Carolin and Sven Opitz 2023: Globale Gesundheitssicherheit. Podcast »Mit Sicherheit im Gespräch«
Mezes, Carolin, Sven Opitz and Andrea Wiegeshoff 2021: Securing Epidemic Ecologies. Author workshop at Philipps-Universität Marburg/online, December 09-10th. See programme
Mezes, Carolin, Bernadette Hof, Amina Nolte and Veronika Zink 2021: (Un-)Sicherheitsgefühle. Zur sinnlichen Organisation prekärer Ordnung. Workshop at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen/online, June 10-11th.
Mezes, Carolin and Sven Opitz 2020: META PANDEMIC. Working on pandemics pre- and post-Corona. Social at EASST/4S Conference, online, August 20th.
Mezes, Carolin, Sascha Brünig, Maike Krüger and Amina Nolte 2020: Security, Mobility and Infrastructure. Masterclass with Claudia Aradau. SFB 138 Dynamics of Security, Philipps-Universität Marburg, February 18th.
»Psychosomatics 2.0? Sociology of Science of Psychosomatic Medicine in Germany«, application at German Research Foundation
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