Christine Leuenberger

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Dr. Christine Leuenberger is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist trained in International Relations, Sociology and Science &Technology Studies. She has published various edited volumes and books and her work has appeared in many academic journals, edited volumes, and popular news outlets. Her most recent co-authored book was published with Oxford University Press entitled: The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine (2020). She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fulbright Specialist, a National Science Foundation Awardee, an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow (STPF), and an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignee at the National Science Foundation.

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Cornell University

Education

  • 1995 
    University of Konstanz, Germany, PhD in Social Sciences
  • 1989 
    University of York, UK, MA in Sociology of Contemporary Culture

Publications

  • 2023
    Constructing Facts on the Map: The 2020 Vision for Peace Conceptual Maps of Israel/Palestine, Journal of Borderland Studies
  • 2020
    The Politics of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of Israel/Palestine (with Izhak Schnell). , Oxford University Press
  • 2019
    The Politics of Maps: Mapping the West Bank Barrier, The Brown Journal of World Affairs 25/2
  • 2016
    First we take Berlin then we take Jerusalem: The Geopolitics of Mapping Divided Cities and their Separation Walls, Geoforum Perspektiv 27
  • 2015
    Building a Neo-liberal Palestinian State under Closure: The Economic and Spatial Implications of Walls and Barriers (with Ahmad El-Atrash), Economic Sociology European Electronic Newsletter 16/2
  • 2013
    Map-Making for Palestinian State-Making, Arab World Geographer 16/1

Grants and Contracts

  • 2012
    Map Wars: The History and Sociology of Mapping Practices in Israel and the Palestinian Territories
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    National Science Foundation

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