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.
• Childhood Publics, ERC Connectors Study#mce_temp_url#

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 and Articles

Davies, James & Stodulka, Thomas (2019, forthcoming) Pathways of Affective Scholarship, in: Stodulka, T., Thajib, F. & Dinkelaker, S. (eds.), Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography (pp. 1-7). New York: Springer.

Liebal, Katja, Lubrich Oliver & Thomas Stodulka (2019) Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche zur Ethnographie, Primatographie, und Reiseliteratur [Emotions in the Field: Conversations on Ethnography, Primatography, and Travel Writing] Bielefeld: transcript.

Lubrich, Oliver & Stodulka, Thomas (2019, forthcoming) Emotionen auf Exidition: Ein Taschenbuch für die Ethnographische Praxis. Bielefeld: transcript.

Stodulka, Thomas (2017) Coming of Age on the Streets of Java – Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness. Bielefeld: transcript. (Review in Current Anthropology 59, no. 3 (June 2018): 351-352)

Stodulka, Thomas (2014) Feelings at the Margins: Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.

Davies, James & Stodulka, Thomas (2019, forthcoming) Emotions in the Field, in: P. Atkinson et al. (eds.), The SAGE Encyclopaedia of Social Research Methods. http://methods.sagepub.com/Foundations/emotions-in-fieldwork

Thajib, Ferdiansyah, Dinkelaker, Samia & Thomas Stodulka (2019, forthcoming) Introduction: Advancing Affective Scholarship (with Thajib, F. & Dinkelaker, S.), in: Stodulka, T., Thajib, F. & Dinkelaker, S. (eds.), Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography (pp. 8-23). New York: Springer.

Stodulka, Thomas (2019, forthcoming) Zauberformel, Scharlatanerie, Projektion? Empathie als Methode und Emotion als Erkenntnis ethnographischer Forschung [Magic, witching, projection? Empathy as Method and Emotion as Epistemics of Ethnographic Research], in: J. Jacobs, M. Liebelt & K. Konerding (eds.), Empathie und Sprache.

Stodulka, Thomas, Thajib, Ferdiansyah & Samia Dinkelaker (2019, forthcoming) Fieldwork, Ethnography, and the Empirical Affect Montage., in: A. Kahl (ed.), Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies (pp. 279–295). London: Routledge.

Stodulka, Thomas (2019) A Proposition – Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and the Empirical Affect Montage. ISA eSymposium for Sociology. 

Stodulka, Thomas (2019) Orders of Feeling, in: C. von Scheve & J. Slaby (eds.), Affective Societies: Key Concepts. London: Routledge: 310-318.

Lehmann, Jörg & Stodulka, Thomas (2018) A “steady eye” in “a moving world”: Comparative perspectives on travel writing and narrative ethnography(with Jörg Lehmann, comparative literature). Journeys - The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 19(2): 23-43.

Stodulka, Thomas, Selim, Nasima & Dominik Mattes (2018) Affective Scholarship: Doing Anthropology with epistemic affects. Ethos 46(4): 519-536.

Stodulka, Thomas (2017) Yogyakarta Street Careers –Feelings of Belonging and Dealing with Sticky Stigma. Antropologia 4(2): 145-163.

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

Stodulka, Thomas (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. 

Lubrich, Oliver, Stodulka, Thomas & Katja Liebal (2017) Affekte im Feld – Ein blinder Fleck der Forschung? (with Oliver Lubrich & Katja Liebal) [Affects in the Field: A blind spot in research?] Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, 5: 179-197.

Stodulka, Thomas (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.

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

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

Stodulka, Thomas (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. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.

Stodulka, Thomas (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. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.

Stodulka, Thomas (2014) Feldforschung als Begegnung: Zur pragmatischen Dimension ethnographischer Daten [Fieldwork as Encounter: The Pragmatic Dimension of ethnographic data]. Sociologus 64(2): 179-206.

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

Editorships

Social Sciences in Asia (Brill Book Series); Series Editor (with Kelvin Low & Maunagurun Sidhartan)

European Network for Psychological Anthropology Blog and Website, co-editor (with Keir Martin, Oslo University; Florin Cristea, FU, University of Roehampton, UK); tba in March 2019 

[anthro]metronom–witnessing psy-realms(graduate student blog on psychological anthropologies; initiator and editorial advisor) tba in April 2019 

Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (advisory board)

Encounter, collaborative multilingual media project in Arabic, English, Farsi and German (co-initiator and editorial advisor)

Online-Publications andResearch Reports

2018 Jennifer Edmond, Nicola Horsley, Elisabeth Huber, 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. (white paper; recommendations for the European Commission on Big Data Research)

2017/18 Editorial Team ‘Encounter’ – Engaged Anthropology Blog and Magazine, funded by the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung

2016 About Ethnolab, with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia.

2016 Editorial. Ethnolab, with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia.

2016 Behind the Scenes: Reflective Accounts on Ethnolab, with Thajib, Ferdiansyah and Dinkelaker, Samia.

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 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 [Sound-tracks], with Nils Meyer-Abich and Sven Ismer. Hi8. Colour. 44 Minutes. Music, Migration and Belonging. Thesis Film of Visual Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Advisor: Dr. Beate Engelbrecht. Audience Award at Göttingen Short Film Festival, Kino Lumière Göttingen, 2002.