Dr Astrid Schrader

Astrid works at the intersections of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Human-Animal Studies and Feminist and Poststructuralist Theories.

She joined the University of Exeter in the autumn of 2013 as a HASS Research Fellow and became a lecturer in SPA in 2016. She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at York University, Toronto, the University of Pittsburgh and the Pembroke Center at Brown University and taught Science, Technology & Society Studies at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. Astrid received her PhD in History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She also holds a MSc (UC Santa Cruz) and a Diplom (TU Berlin) in physics.