People
Members
Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Head of the Institute of SCA; Dean for Research (Dept. of Political and Social Sciences); Head of the Research Area Medical Anthropology
Dr. Krzysztof Bierski
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Area Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (POINT Program); associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Research Project "Epistemology of Inner Peace: Transcultural Approaches to Yoga Therapy for Mental Health"
Dr. Astrid Bochow
Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Research Project "Involuntary childlessness in Botswana - disintegration, conflicts and Identities"
Giorgio Brocco
Doktorand / PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral research: Zeruzeru and Diverse Shades of Difference: A Study of People with Albinism in Kilolo District, Tanzania
Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves
Guest Lecturer 01.10.2019 - 30.09.2020 (teaching substitute for Prof. Dilger)
Nina Grube
External Associate Member of the Research Area Medica Anthropology
Doctoral Research: "Therapeutische Netzwerke, Subjektivität und emotionale Zugehörigkeit im Umgang mit psychisch-seelischen Störungen bei afrikanischen MigrantInnen in Berlin" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Helene Basu, Universität Münster)
Dr. Susann Huschke
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen's University Belfast, UK; associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
PhD dissertation (completed): "Kranksein in der Illegalität. Eine medizinethnologische Studie über lateinamerikanische MigrantInnen in Berlin"
Dr. Anika König
Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Area Studies
Postdoctoral Research: "Leihmutterschaft in transnationaler Perspektive: eine medizinethnologische Untersuchung sozialer Elternschaft ('intended parenthood') im deutschsprachigen Raum"
Dr. Glaucia Maricato
Research Associate (Marie Curie Sklodowska Fellow) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Research project "Absent presences. An ethnographic study of the uncounted lives of people infected by leprosy in Latin America"
Dominik Mattes
Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Research Project C03 "Embodied Emotions and Religious Belonging in Migratory Settings: Sufi Centres and (New) Pentecostal Churches in Berlin"
Simon Mutebi
DAAD fellowship, doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Dr. Tina Otten
Research Fellow at Ruhr Universität Bochum & Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), London; associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Ursula Probst
Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research: “Migration, commercial sex and (Eastern) European bodies in Berlin”
Hanspeter Reihling
PhD Student
Research project: "Vulnerable men: Gender and sentiment at the margins of Cape Town" (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Jenny Rosenberg
Student Assistant (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Dr. Mona Schrempf
Postdoctoral Fellow at EASTmedicine Research Centre, University of Westminster; associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Research Project "Globalization of Tibetan Medicine in Europe and Asia" (Laufzeit 08/2012 - 07/2015)
Dr. Nasima Selim
Research associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Anitha Tingira
Doktorandin/Doct. candidate (DAAD) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Dynamics in Delivery and Utilization of Maternal Health Services in Tanzania: The case of Sandawe of Kondoa District
Nina Zeldes
Doctoral candidate (Supervision: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Between Biomedicines – Negotiating Expectations and Cultural Beliefs on Healthcare among German, Japanese and Indian Expatriates in the USA
Archive
Dr. Hannah Brown
Visiting Researcher; Research Area Medical Anthropology
Research on "People, Animals and Infectuous Disease: A new sythesis" (2017)
Prof. Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
Professor at Carleton College, USA
Research Project "Birth and Belonging in an African Diaspora: Global Webs and Local Exclusion from Cameroon to Berlin" (2011-2012)
Dr. Bo Kyeong Seo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Area Studies at Freie Universität Berlin (POINT Program); associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Research Project "Dialysis as an Assemblage of Care: Health, Technology, and Forms of Life in Contemporary Thailand"
M.A. Linn Leißner
Graduate Student and Student Assistant of Prof. Dilger (2011-2013)
Research project in cooperation with Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin: "Leben mit MPS: Krankheitskonzepte und Gesundheitspraktiken türkischstämmiger MigrantInnen" (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Dr. Basile Ndjio
Georg Forster Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Research on "Traditional Chinese Medicine and transnational healing processes in Cameroon"
PhD Malgorzata Rajtar
Postdoc-Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011-13)
Research project "Refusal of Blood Transfusions: Religious Identity and Modern Medical Authority"
Dr. Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
Volkswagen Foundation "Knowledge for Tomorrow" Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand; associate member of the research area Medical Anthropology
Research Project "Salvaged Lives: A Study of Urban Migration, Ontological Insecurity, and Healing in Johannesburg"
