Clelia Minnetian

Researcher at Bielefeld University in the DFG-funded project “On the institutionalization of rankings. Discourse careers of tabular performance comparisons, 1850–1980”. Before she was a doctoral researcher at the graduate school “Innovation Society Today” at TU Berlin. Her PhD focuses on governmentality and subjectivation in vocational orientation. Her research interests include political theory – especially poststructuralist theory, discourse theory and governmentality studies, discourse analysis, subjectivation analysis and historical sociology. In her current research she focuses on the discursive institutionalization of rankings in competitive sports in the 19th and 20th century.