Clara Heinrich

John F. Kennedy Institute
Sociology Department
Researcher
Office hours
Tuesdays 2pm-3pm (registration via email at least one day in advance is required)
Education
- 2021 - 2022 Master of Science in Political Economy of Europe (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- 2016 - 2020 Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, part of the studies spent at University Bergen, Norway)
Employment
Various research assistant positions
- London School of Economics and Political Science, Departement of International Relations
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Social Sciences
- German Trade Union Confederation (DGB),
- Research Training Group DYNAMICS (Hertie School of Governance & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Summer term 2024: BA/MA Seminar "Power: Its ambiguities and disguises" (syllabus)
- Summer term 2024: BA Introductory tutorials in Sociology
- Winter term 2023/24: BA/MA Seminar "Text Analysis in R" (syllabus)
- Winter term 2023/23: BA Interdisciplinary Colloquium (Economics, History, Political Sciences and Sociology)
- Summer term 2023: BA/MA Seminar "Introduction to Social Sciences Methods: Statistics, text mining and web-scraping in R" (syllabus)
- Winter term 2022/23: BA Seminar "The Political Economy of the USA in comparison" (syllabus)
Research Interests
PhD project: My on-going PhD project focuses on the underinvestment of the German public sector in recent decades and examines its sociological and moral foundations. I therefore study political discourse (including experts and lay people), mass education and patterns of socialization using compatutational text analysis methods as well as historical statistics and archival resources.
General research interests: Economic Sociology and Political Economy, especially
- Fiscal Policy and State Capacity
- Sociological Theory
- Studies of Capitalism
- Theories of Power and Epistemic Authority
- Money & Finance
- Sociology of Morality
- 2022: Book review of The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism, Adrienne Buller (2022), Manchester: Manchester University Press, in economic sociology, Volume 24, Issue 1. Available online.
- 2025: "Beyond formal politics: the epistemic facet of business power." Business and Politics, 27(1), 69–94. doi:10.1017/bap.2024.21. Available online (open access).