Academic Career

• 10/2016 Juniorprofessor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin

• 09/2016 – 07/2017 Forschungsfellow, NIAS Amsterdam (European Institutes of Advanced Studies) (abbrev.)
  

• 08/2014 - 05/2015 Associated Visiting Scholar, Center for Social and Democratic Studies, Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta, Indonesia
• 05/2013 - 08/2016 Project Director 'The Researcher's Affects'
• 10/2008 - 04/2013 Research Associate, Cluster of Excellence 'Languages of Emotion', FU Berlin

 

Academic Qualifications

• 05/2013 Dr. phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
• 10/2004 M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Media and Communication Studies, Georg-August Universität Göttingen

 

Awards and Grants

• 01/2017 - 03/2018 Work Package Leader "Knowledge Complexity (K-PLEX, EU Horizon2020)
• 05/2013 - 07/2017 Project director “The Researchers’ Affects” (funded by Volkswagen Foundation)
• 10/2009 - 09/2013 Project director “Are Germans really green-eyed monsters?” (Cluster of Excellence, funded by DFG)
• 01/2007 - 04/2008 Research grant (doctorate) funded by DAAD
• 01/2005 - 04/2005 Research grant Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, FG: Emotions as bio-cultural processes

 

Memberships

• European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)        
• European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) 
• European Association for South East Asian Studies (EuroSEAS)        
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA; Vorstand)        
• AG Psychologische Anthropologie, DGSKA     
• Engaged Anthropology Working Group am Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, FU Berlin        
• Mauerpark Institute Berlin e.V.

Fieldwork

Java, Indonesia (42 months); Timor Leste (2 months)

 

Research interest

psychological anthropology, social inequalities, marginalization, stigmatization, childhood, youth, life stories, affect and emotion, critical epistemologies, mental health and illness, alternative economies, visual anthropology

Regional focus: Southeast Asia, Europe

Books

upcoming 2019. Emotionen auf Expeditionen (mit Oliver Lubrich). Bielefeld: transcript.

upcoming 2019. Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork (with F. Thajib & S. Dinkelaker). New York: Springer.

upcoming 2018. Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche (mit Katja Liebal & Oliver Lubrich). Bielefeld: transcript.

2017 Coming of Age on the Streets of Java – Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness. Bielefeld: transcript. (Review Current Anthropology)

2014 Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia (ed. with B. Röttger-Rössler). Campus. Frankfurt/New York.

Journal Articles

Jörg Lehmann, Elisabeth Huber, Thomas Stodulka. forthcoming. Lost in Datafication? - An Attempted Typology of (Emotion) Data Contextualization, in: Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science.

forthcoming 2018. A “steady eye” in “a moving world”: Comparative perspectives on travel writing and narrative ethnography in V.S. Naipaul and Andrew Beatty (with Jörg Lehmann). Journeys - The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 19(2). 

forthcoming 2018. Die Formatierung der Emotionen: Paratexte in der Ethnographie (with Jörg Lehmann & Oliver Lubrich). Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. VS, Springer.

forthcoming 2018 (with Nasima Selim & Dominik Mattes) Affective Scholarship: Doing Anthropology with Epistemic Affects, Ethos, Journal of the SPA.

2017 Yogyakarta Street Careers –Feelings of Belonging and Dealing with Sticky Stigma. Antropologia, Vol. 4, Numero 2, pp. 145-163.

2017 (with O. Lubrich & K. Liebal) Affekte im Feld – Ein blinder Fleck der Forschung?. In: Hartung G., Herrgen M. (eds) Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie. pp. 179-197. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

2015a Emotion work, Ethnography and Survival Strategies on the Streets of Yogyakarta. Medical Anthropology 34(1): 84-97.

2015b Spheres of Passion: fieldwork, ethnography and the researcher’s emotions. Curare  - Journal for Medical Anthropology 38(1+2): 103-116.

2014 Feldforschung als Begegnung – Zur pragmatischen Dimension ethnographischer Daten. Sociologus 64(2): 179-206.

2013 Guter Neid, schlechter Neid? Von der ‚Neidkultur’ zu Kulturen des Neides (Good envy, bad envy? From ‘envy culture’ to the cultures of envy), coauthored with Christian von Scheve and Julia Schmidt, in: Emotionen und Politik – Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 32-33, pp. 41-46.

Book Chapters

forthcoming 2019. Orders of Feeling. In: C. von Scheve & J. Slaby, Affective Societies: Key Concepts. London: Routledge.

forthcoming 2018. Zauberformel, Scharlatanerie, Projektion? Empathie als Methode und Emotion als Erkenntnis ethnographischer Forschung. In: M. Liebelt et al., Empathie und Sprache.

forthcoming 2018 (with S. Dinkelaker & F. Thajib). “The Empirical Affect Montage.” In Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies, edited by Antje Kahl. London: Routledge.

upcoming. Emotions in the Field (with J. Davies). The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Social Research Methods.

2017 Towards an integrative anthropology of emotion – a case study from Yogyakarta. In: A. Storch (ed.), Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating emotion in the public space. pp. 9-34. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

2017 Storms of slander – Relational dimensions of envy in Java, Indonesia. In: R. Smith, M. Duffy and U. Merlone (eds.), Envy at Work and in Organizations, pp. 297-320. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2016 Coming of Age on the Streets. In: L. Manderson, A. Hardon and E. Cartwright (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, pp. 85-88. Routledge: London.

2014 The Emotional Make-up of Marginality and Stigma (with B. Röttger-Rössler), in: T. Stodulka & B. Röttger-Rössler (eds.), Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia, pp. 11-29. Campus. Frankfurt/New York.

2014 ‘Playing it Right’ – Empathy and Emotional Economies on the Streets of Java, in: T. Stodulka & B. Röttger-Rössler (eds.), Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia, pp. 103-127. Campus. Frankfurt/New York.

2009 “Beggars” and “Kings”: Emotional Regulation of Shame Among Street Youths in a Javanese City in Indonesia. In: Röttger-Rössler, B. und H.J. Markowitsch (eds.), Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes, pp. 329-349. Springer. New York.
 

Online-publications

Jörg Lehmann, Thomas Stodulka, Elisabeth Huber. H2020 Project K-PLEX: WP4 Report on Data, Knowledge Organisation and Epistemics . [Research Report] Freie Universtät Berlin. 2018. 〈hal-01761214〉

2016 About Ethnolab, with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia. http://ethnolab.kunci.or.id/about/

2016 Editorial. Ethnolab, with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia. http://ethnolab.kunci.or.id/2016/02/06/editorial-note/

2016 Behind the Scenes: Reflective Accounts on Ethnolab,  with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia. http://ethnolab.kunci.or.id/2016/02/11/reflective-accounts

Documentaries

2003 Augenblicke (Moments, with Sebastian Baller). Mini-DV. Colour. 43 Minutes. Oral histories of three anarchists from three different generations.

2002 Mimpi manis, Paris! (Sweet Dreams Paris!, with Dr. Janna Bégué). Hi8. Colour. 43 Minutes. Life on the Streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Nominated for Student Award at the Göttingen International Film Festival (GIEFF).

2001 Tonspuren (Soundtracks, with mit Dr. Nils Meyer-Abich and Dr. Sven Ismer). Hi8. Colour. 44 Minutes. Music, Migration and Identity. Thesis Film of Visual Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Advisor: Dr. Beate Engelbrecht. Audience Award at Göttingen Short Film Festival, Kino Lumière Göttingen, 2002

 

Research Report

Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Elisabeth Hiber, Rihards Kalnins, Jörg Lehmann, Mike Priddy, Thomas Stodulka. 2018. Big Data and Complex Knowledge - Observations and Recommendations for Research from the Knowledge Complexity Project. Trinity College Dublin.