Meta Cramer
Senior Researcher
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Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin |
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Schönhauser Allee 10-11 Raum 4.43 |
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| Personal Website | https://metacramer.owlstown.net/ |
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Vita
Meta Cramer works on the relationship between publication practices and national evaluation systems from a global perspective in the “Predatory Publishing Practices” project.
I am particularly interested in questions about structures of inequalities in academia and the (self-)governance of science. This includes thinking about research evaluation regimes and how they affect the work practices of scholars, disciplinary and regional publishing cultures, entrenched institutional and global inequalities and in doing so, building on social theory that is attentive to relations of power.
After a bachelor's degree in sociology, political science and economics in Friedrichshafen, Tel Aviv and Oxford, I studied social sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin and in London. I then completed my PhD at the University of Freiburg on the negotiation of colonial legacies and global inequalities by Anglo-Caribbean social scientists.
Research Interests
- (self-)governance of science
- publishing cultures
- global sociology (post-, decolonial and southern theory)
- social theory
- sociology of social sciences
Research Projects
2024-2028
Publications
Forthcoming/ Preprints
- Cramer, M. (2025) Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean. Negotiating Social Knowledge Production in Research and Career-Making. Bristol University Press. Pre-Order Here
- Cramer, M. & Reinhart, M. (preprint) Understanding the Governance of Science from a global Perspective: A heuristic of Research Evaluation Regimes, zenodo, https://zenodo.org/records/14961710
Published
2024
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Cramer, Meta (2024) Lektionen aus der New World Group: Anglophon-karibische Sozialwissenschaften in den 1960er Jahren aus wissenschaftssoziologischer Perspektive. in Santos, Fabio; Ruvituso, Clara (Hrsg.) Globale Soziologie. Vergessene Theorien, verflochtene Geschichten. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44022-0_4
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Cramer, Meta (2024) Lyrisches Theoretisieren kolonialer Herrschaft bei Trutz v. Trotha. in Annicker, Fabian; Armbruster, André (Hrsg.) Die Praxis soziologischer Theoriebildung. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44055-8_4
2023
- Cramer, Meta (2023) Colonial Scholars and Anti-Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid-20th Century. in Sociology Lens 36(2), p. 208–222 (Open Access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/johs.12417
2022
- Cramer, Meta (2022) Theorising the Caribbean against the grain. How West Indian social scientists established the Caribbean as a space of knowledge production in the 1950s. in Sociedade e Estado 37(3) p. 835-859 (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-6992-202237030004
Talks
2024
- ‘Ontological Sovereignty’ and Regional Sovereignty: S. Wynter’s Early Work and Education between London and the West Indies. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2024, Montréal, Canada, 12.08.24
- Negotiation Zones of Knowledge: Theorising Colonial legacies and research and career-making in the South. Inaugural British Journal of Sociology Conference 2024, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 16.04.24
- Negotiation Zones of Knowledge: A sensitising concept of global social knowledge production. Invited Talk Seminaire ”Vers des sciences sociales non-hégémoniques”, Université de Paris-Cité, Paris, France, 23.01.24.
2023
- Circular academic mobility: Caribbean social scientists’ moving between the University of the West Indies and metropolitan institutions. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2023, Philadelphia, USA, 21.08.23.
- Building a Research Tradition Against the Grain: The Historical Development of Caribbean Social Sciences. Making Space. Thinking against the grain in historical sociology CHS Mini-Conference at the ASA Annual Meeting 2023, Philadelphia, USA, 17.08.23.
- Epistemic sovereignty in the West Indies: The New World Group in the 1960s. South-South Intellectual Exchanges: Networks, Actors, Theories, Impact; Session of RC08, History of Sociology XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 30.06.23, online.
- Institutionalizing and Decolonizing Anglophone Caribbean Social Sciences 1950-1990: Four Generations of Transnational Knowledge Production. Transnational Histories of Sociology; Session of RC08, History of Sociology XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, 29.06.23, online.
- Negotiation zones of knowledge: Colonial legacies, research and career making by Caribbean social scientists.Invited Talk Robert K. Merton Center for Science Studies, Berlin, 22.02.23
2022
- Colonial scholars and anti-colonial agents: Academic mobility between the West Indies and the British Metropole in the mid-20th century. Bucerius Young Scholars Forum ’Histories of Migration’. German Historical Institute, Pacific Office, Berkeley, US. Workshop funded by the ZEIT Bucerius Stiftung, 10.- 13.10.22.
- Herausforderungen einer postkolonialen Soziologie der Wissensproduktion. 44. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft fu ̈r Soziologie, Bielefeld. Sektionsveranstaltung der Sektion Kultursoziologie, ”Postkoloniale Perspektiven in der Kultursoziologie“, 27.09.22 (”Challenges of a postcolonial sociology of knowledge production”)
- Decolonising the British Caribbean and its research in the 1960s: The ‘New World Group’ between activism and intellectualism. Governing (by) expertise. The politics of social scientific knowledge production Workshop at ENS Paris-Saclay, France. organised by IDHES ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS and DFG-Network Political Sociology of transnational fields, 28.-29.04.22
2021
- Epistemic Injustice Put in Social Context: Practices of Social Knowledge Making in a Post-colonial Academic Order. Thinking at the Border: Post- and decolonial theory and epistemic injustice. Department of Education, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 23.09.21 (online)
- Theorizing the making of social knowledge and academic careers in the Global South. HERSS Summer School 2021, ’Making Theory Work’. Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS), University of Hannover, Germany, 08.09.21 (online)
- Organisationswechsel. Universität(sformen) im Austausch von Studierenden. Mitschriften. Formate universitärer Kritik. Workshop organised by M. Lehmann, Toepfer Stiftung, 28.11.17, Gut Siggen, Germany
University Courses
WiSe 2024/ 25
Introduction to Classical Sociological Theory, University of Potsdam (Fall Term 2024/25)
WiSe 2016/2017
Instructor, Introduction into Quantitative Methods and R, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen (Fall Term 2016/17)
Awards/Prizes
2024
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Travel Grant for Congress Trips for attendance of the 119th ASA Annual Meeting, Montréal, Canada (08.-13.08.2024)
2022
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Travel Grant for PhD Students for fieldwork in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad (January-March 2022)
2021
Best Presentation Award, HERSS Summer School 2021, LCSS Hannover, Germany (September 2021)
2020
- Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2016-2020)
- Fellow of the interdisciplinary ”College of Europe”, German Academic Scholarship Foundation, DAAD & Töpfer Stiftung (2018-2020)
2017
- Book Prize of St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, awarded for ”excellent work in sociology” (November 2017)
- Udo J. Vetter Scholarship for exchange studies, Zeppelin University (January 2017)