Christian Morgner

Christian Morgner studied sociology at the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena and at the University of Essex, Colchester. In 2003, he graduated with a dissertation on the semantic development of trust and distrust.

From 2004–2007 Christian Morgner was a PhD student at the Graduate School »Transnational Media Events« at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen. His PhD thesis focused on the development of a theory on world media events. During that time, he visited media archives in the United States and Singapore for several months. Since 2007, he has been working on a project about art and world society and thus went on to become an Affiliate Researcher at the University of Cambridge in 2008. This ongoing project has already included field work in South-Korea as well as in Brazil and will be continued in New York and Yokohama.

In 2009, Christian Morgner joined the sociological department of the University of Luzern. Nonetheless, he is a member of the advisory board of the Korean Art Journal »NOON: Journal for Contemporary Art and Visual Culture« and is a guest lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute London. In 2010, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.