Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert

Mirco Göpfert is Professor for Social and Cultural anthropology and Deputy Head of Department. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2014 and taught at the University of Konstanz before coming to the Goethe University in 2018.

Also, Mirco (he/him) is a first generation academic, so please get in touch if you need help or seek advice!

• Humour and satire (as epistemic practices)
• Anthropology of the state and bureaucratic practice / violence and security / crime and punishment / power and resistance
• Relational ontology / phenomenological approaches in anthropology / practice theory
• Heuristic and methodology of ethnographic research 

• Humour as an Epistemic Practice of the Political Present [NoJoke]
• DFG Programme Point Sud