Smilla Ebeling is a science researcher. Her research and teaching focus on gender and science studies, science studies, animal studies and museum research.

After studying biology, Smilla Ebeling completed her doctorate in the history of science at the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2001; she wrote her dissertation in the DFG Research Training Group Genesis, Structures and Consequences of Science and Technology at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld University. Smilla Ebeling has worked as a research assistant and guest researcher at various universities: Centre For Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota (Winter 1998/1999), International Women's University(ifu) at the University of Hanover (Summer 2000), Historical Seminar of the TU Braunschweig in the project Mathematics of Life - Constitution and Gender Coding of a New Concept of Life through Artificial Life Research (2001 - 2002), Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Basel (2002 - 2003) and Institute of Material Culture, School III, University of Oldenburg in the research project New Heritage Museums as Institutions of Knowledge Production (2013 - 2015). From 2003 - 2009, Smilla Ebeling worked as a junior and associate professor for Gender, Biotechnologies and Society: Body Discourses and Gender Constructions at the Institute of Sociology and at the Institute of Cultural Studies: ART - TEXTILE - MEDIA at the University of Oldenburg. In addition, Smilla Ebeling has taught as a lecturer, lecturer and visiting professor at various institutes at universities in Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Zurich and Hamburg. In the non-academic field, Smilla Ebeling ran the cultural café café munck (Hamburg; 2011 - 2012).

• together with Sigrid Schmitz: Gender and Biology. From critical analysis to reflexive intervention. In: Barbara Rendtorff, Birgit Riegraf, Claudia Mahs, Minika Schröttle (eds.): Erkenntnis, Wissen, Intervention. Perspectives from gender studies. Weinheim Basel: Beltz Juventa, 2015, 37-52.
• Beastly bourgeois. Musealisation of nature and gender in regional museums. In: FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Re-Visionen des Museums. Practices of visualisation in the field of the political, no. 58 (2015), 76-88.
• Sexing the Rotifer: Reading Nonhuman Animal's Sex and Reproduction in 19th-Century Biology. In: Society & Animals 2011, 305-315.
• together with Bonnie Spanier: What made those Penguins Gay? Gender and Sexuality Politics in the Zoo. In: Jill A. Fisher (ed.): Gendering Difference. Studies in Contemporary Science and Medicine. New Brunswick New Jersey London 2011, 126-144.
• Heteronormativity in zoology. In: Bettina Fritzsche, Kristina Hackmann, Ulrike Hänsch, Jutta Hartmann, Christian Klesse & Peter Wagenknecht (eds.): Heteronormativity. Empirical studies on heterosexuality as a social power relationship. Wiesbaden 2007, 79-93.
• Ed. together with Sigrid Schmitz: Geschlechterforschung und Naturwissenschaften - Einführung in ein komplexes Wechselspiel. Wiesbaden 2006.
• The Reproduction of Gender Relations. The metaphorical field of parthenogenesis in evolutionary biology. talheimer 2002.

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