Priska Gisler has been a research fellow at the Collegium Helveticum since 2003 and is project director of the research project “Tracking the Human: Technologies of Collecting, Ordering and Comparing or The Problem of Relevant Knowledge” since November 2007.After her studies in Sociology, Social and Economic History and Modern History at University of Zurich, she completed a discourse analytical dissertation on gender politics (Universities of Bern and Potsdam) in 1999. From 1998 to 2003 she was a senior scientist at the Chair for Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich. Priska Gisler has been a lecturer at ETH Zurich, the Universities of Zurich, Basel and Vienna, and the Zurich University of Fine Arts.
Priska Gisler’s academic interests lie in Sociology of Science, Cultural Studies and Gender Studies. She is currently doing research on biomedicine and society; biological materials and notions of personhood; practices of collecting and exhibiting; the discursive production of legal norms and social problems.