Prof. Dr. Stefan Leins

Telefon: +49 7531 88-2892
Raum: F504
E-Mail:
Stefan.Leins@uni-konstanz.de
Sprechzeiten: Immer Montags, 10-13 Uhr
In der Sprechstunde beantworte ich gerne alle kleineren und größeren Fragen zur Lehre, schriftlichen Arbeiten und zum Studium generell. Wenn Sie Gesprächsbedarf haben, sind Sie auch ohne dringendes Anliegen immer willkommen!
Die Sprechstunden finden bis auf Weiteres online statt:
- Buchen Sie auf https://calendly.com/leins einen Termin. Für kürzere Fragen reichen normalerweise 15 Minuten, für die Besprechung von Hausarbeiten, Bachelorarbeiten oder Masterarbeiten 30 Minuten und für größere Anliegen 60 Minuten.
- Am Termin: Betreten Sie den Warteraum meines Zoomraums https://zoom.us/my/stefan.leins. Ich öffne Ihnen zur abgemachten Zeit die virtuelle Tür.
Zur Person
Stefan Leins is assistant professor in anthropology, focusing on cultures of economy. Before joining the department in August 2019, he was a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies of the University of Zurich and a member of the research program Anthropology of Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He taught anthropology at the universities of Liechtenstein, Lucerne, NTNU Trondheim and Zurich.
Leins is interested in theories of capitalism and works on commodity trading, supply chains, financial analysis, forecasting practices, Islamic finance, socially responsible investing, the history of economic knowledge and the narrative dimension of finance. His first book Stories of Capitalism: Inside the Role of Financial Analysts was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018.
From January 2017 to December 2018, Leins co-coordinated and conducted research in the project Valueworks: Effects of Financialization along the Copper Value Chain, which was funded by the Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS). In 2017, he also won the Mercator Award in the category humanities and social sciences.
Stefan Leins regularly publishes in newspapers, blogs and scientific journals on the cultural characteristics and practices in banking and commodity trading. His research has been portrayed several times in German-language newspapers (NZZ, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger Magazin, TAZ, WOZ, Zeit Campus)