Sasha Bergstrom-Katz

Dr. Sasha Bergstrom-Katz is a researcher, artist, and writer who works on the history of the human sciences, performance in medicine. Her focus is specifically about the creation, design, and uses of scientific apparatuses which she examines through written critical texts as well as video, performance, installation, and photography. She is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bielefeld having recently completed a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. She received her PhD on the materiality and performance of intelligence test kits from Birkbeck in Psychosocial Studies in 2023. She has an MFA in studio art from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA in art from CalArts. She exhibits her work internationally and publishes in areas such as history of science, psychosocial studies, and STS. She has taught studio and theory courses at the University of California, Irvine, and on BA and MA modules in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck. Her monograph, Unpacking Intelligence, is currently under review and she is co-editing a special issue on the Material Force of Categories for the History of the Human Sciences with Tomas Percival and a forthcoming volume on the intersections between Art & Psychotherapy with Dr. Suzanne Hudson and Dr. Sarah Marks.

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