Comedy and satire, aesthetics and artistic practices, activism, crime and punishment, the state and bureaucracy, police work, experimental forms of ethnography and ethnographic writing
West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo) | Material culture, ethnological museums, consumption, migration and mobility, as well as globalization.
India (Odisha), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) | Islam and Hindu religions, religion and materiality, kinship and “relatedness,” resources and cultural practices, speech and authority, anthropology of plants
Latin America (esp. Central Mexico), U.S.-Mexico border region (esp. California) | Anthropology of violence and feminist ethnology, vigilance, coloniality of power, racism, gender, migration, intersectionality, affects, indigenous perspectives
Prof. apl. Dr. Susanne Fehlings
Post-Soviet space, Black Sea region/South Caucasus, and connections to China | Trade, markets, economic exchange, entrepreneurship, space and the city, funeral culture, ideology and history, multi-species research
Melanesia, particularly Papua New Guinea (Southern Highlands Province, West New Britain Province), Indonesia, Australia | Processing of cultural encounters with the foreign, intercultural and intracultural conflicts, anthropology of religion, museology, theory and methodology of anthropological fieldwork
Political anthropology, humor, environment, urban anthropology | Latin America, particularly Mexico and Brazil
Transnationalism, migration and border processes, belonging and citizenship, state and bureaucracy, categorizations and differences, political subjectivity, activism, phenomenological approaches and lifeworld research | Germany, Ghana
Dr. Sophia Hornbacher-Schönleber
Indonesia (esp. Java) | Political anthropology, anthropology of ethics and morality, subjectivity, activism and social movements, power and resistance, Marxism, Islam, Critical Agrarian Studies, political ecology, history and memory
Humor and comedy as epistemic practice; heuristics and methodology of artistic practices in anthropology; ontology and epistemology / phenomenological approaches in anthropology; anthropology of the senses and emotions, anthropology of art, cosmopolitanism
Indigenous North America | Representation, material culture, historical photography, museum anthropology, tourism, anthropology of art (contemporary art), repatriation, indigeneity/ethnicity
(Post-)digital, multimodal, and visual anthropology; mobility, (post-)migration, transnationalism; securitization of Islam and anti-Muslim racism; critical and decolonial perspectives, theory of practice | Regional focus on German-speaking contexts and Senegal
Feminist and Queer Studies; Desire and Performance; Indigenous Food Cultures; Collaborative Research Methods
North Africa, Western Sahara | Migration, Identity, Material Culture, Cultural Heritage