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Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz

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Prof. Dr. Gisela Welz is Professor of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt.









Consultation hours during the summer term 2021:

02.03. - 06.04.2021: Tuesday 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Starting from 13.04.2021: Tuesday 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Appointments need to be made beforehand thorugh the secretary's office.

Gisela Welz was trained as a cultural anthropologist and European ethnologist at Frankfurt University (M.A. 1984) and received her Dr. phil. in 1990. Her doctoral thesis was an ethnographic study of urban restructuring in Brooklyn, NY. („StreetLife. Alltag in einem urbanen Slum“, Frankfurt 1991). She held teaching positions in Frankfurt (1985-89) and Tuebingen (1989-96), where she received her postdoctoral degree (Habilitation) in Empirical Cultural Studies for a book on the cultural politics of urban diversity („Inszenierungen kultureller Vielfalt“, Berlin 1996). She was appointed as professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1998 and became the successor of Prof. Dr. Ina-Maria Greverus. She worked as a Visiting Scholar at New York University 1992/93, was a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles in 1996, a Heisenberg Research Fellow of the German Research Council DFG at Humboldt University Berlin 1997/98. Short-term teaching as visiting professor brought her to the University of Cyprus (2004), ISCTE Lisbon (2007) and the University of Manchester (2009). She conducted research in the United States, Cyprus and Portugal. Much of her fieldwork and the MA and PhD projects that she supervises are based in fieldwork in Germany, especially in the Rhein Main metropolitan area.