Sarah Elisa Etz

Doctoral Researcher C02
Pronouns: she/her
Since 02/2024 Universität Zürich, PhD in Empirical Cultural Studies, Dissertation project: Mehr als ein Museum? Potentialität und Transformismus im Wandel des Berliner Naturkundemuseums (working title)
10/2016 – 04/2021 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, European Ethnology, M.A., Thesis: Analoge Aisthetik. Eine ethnografische Untersuchung kontemporärer, non-professioneller Filmfotografie
10/2012 – 09/2016 Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Social Sciences, B.A., Thesis: Gewohnte Dinge. Zur Bedeutung von Alltagsgegenständen im urbanen Wohnen
Professional ExperienceSince 10/2022 Doctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre 1512 “Intervening Arts” in the research project “Futurity as Intervention”
08/2021- 09/2022 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Research assistant in the interdisciplinary research project "Museum Space Knowledge“
06/2021 - 09/2022 Technische Universität Berlin, Coordinator for Science Communication of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces“
06/2019 - 03/2021 Technische Universität Berlin, Student Assistant in the office of the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces“
06/2018 - 03/2020 Technische Universität Berlin, Student Assistant in the project "Methods Lab“ at the Collaborative Research Center 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces“
11/2017 - 12/2018 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Student Assistant in the research project "ArchitekturenExperimente“ at the Cluster of Excellence “Image Knowledge Gestaltung”
Winter Semester 2023/2024 Radical Futures? Museums, collectives and public(s) as places of intervention, together with Hana Ćurak and Janette Helm
2024 Etz, Sarah, Séverine Marguin und Henrike Rabe. “Refiguring Museums.
Investigating Tensions in Exhibition Spaces.” Museum & Society 22, no. 1 (2024): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v22i1.4563
Etz, Sarah, Séverine Marguin, and Henrike Rabe. “Visiting the Modern Wunderkammer:
Social-spatial Inequalities in Ways of Knowing.” Museum & Society 22, no. 1 (2024): 67–93.
https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v22i1.4356
Etz, Sarah, Séverine Marguin, and Henrike Rabe. "Welche Rolle spielt der Raum im refigurierten Museum?" In Nach der Natur : Laborbuch zur Ausstellung im Humboldt Labor, edited by Heide Barrenechea, Bastian Herbst, Max Illner.
Diaphanes, 2024: 268-271.
07/09/2025 Lecture at the conference Kulturanalyse als ganzheitliche Perspektive,
19th DGEKW PhD Student Conference at the University of Saarbrücken,
titled: "Hoffen auf mehr als ein Museum? Figurationen gesellschaftlichen
Zukunfts-Machens auf dem Feld der Museumskonzeption“
05/30/2025 Lecture at the conference Infrastructural Turn. How Materiality Shapes Exhibitions
about Difficult Pasts, hosted by the German Historical Instiute Warsaw,
titled: "Where Uncertain Futures and Difficult Pasts Mingle: The Case of (Redesigning) the Berlin Natural History Museum"