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Doctoral Candidates
Kathrin Bauer
by 1st Oct 2018: Research Associate and PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Research on: Diversity or Disfunction. Bio-social-cultural Influences on Life with ADHD (traits) in two Colombian Communities.
Klaus Behnam Shad
Doktorand /Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: Emotionen im Asylprozess. Eine Rekonstruktion der Lebenswirklichkeit afghanischer Geflüchteter in Berlin
Mike Bernd
Doktorand / Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: Fremdsein oder Entfremdung? - Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse im Kontext chinesischer Arbeitsmigration
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
You Kyung Byun
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Research on "100.000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Networks"
Lu Chen
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
PhD research on "The Moving Temples: A Study on the Religious Organizations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake"
Vanessa Pia De Bock
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
PhD Research on "Das Selbst und die Welt in der Depression. Eine ethnographische Studie in der deutschen Gesellschaft"
Kristina Dohrn
Doctoral Candidate & Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research: "Beyond Classrooms: Education and Ethics in Schools of the Gülen Movement in Urban Tanzania" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Swalih Eratta Parambil
Doktorand/Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral reserach "Everyday Ethics: Life of Two Key Texts in the Islamic Everyday Life among Mapplias in Contemporary Kerala, South India"
Mehmet Ercan
Doktorand / Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Urte Undine Frömming)
Doctoral research: Belatedness of Modernity, Hastiness of Earthquake: Avcılar, An Ethnography
Leberecht Funk
Doctoral Candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Doctoral Research: "Society, Cosmology, and Socialization of Emotions" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Raffaele Gallo
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Doctoral Research: Images of a Contested Space: The Case of the 2009 L’Aquila Earthquake and its Aftermath
Sarah Hartmann
Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research: The Role of Islam in the Informal Education Sector - An Ethnographic Study of Private Tutoring Centers in Egypt
Leilani Hermiasih
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
PhD project „Råså in Java Today: Feeling through Learning/ Learning through Feeling Traditional Music as a Cosmopolitan Local“
Liese Hoffmann
Doctoral Candidate & Lecturer in Swahili
Doctoral Research: "Politics and Meanings of School in Post-Colonial, Coastal Kenya" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Brandaan Huigen
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger), DAAD-Fellowship
Doctoral research: "This is dangerous property: Crime and the social life of things in South Africa"
Starlynn Jacobs
Betreuung/Supervision: Prof. Dr. Urte Undine Frömming
The Role of Indigenous Media in Social Environmental Movements
Susanne Jung
Research Assistant & Doctoral Candidate
Doctoral Research: "Sozialisation von Emotionen in einer indonesischen Gesellschaft" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Jonathan Kempen
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker)
PhD Research on “Ndebele Communities and the South African State – Negotiating Culture, Structure and Strategies”
Sirin Knecht
Doctoral candidate (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Olaf Zenker); scholarship holder of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Doctoral Research „Advocating human rights under conditions of religious legal pluralism: the example of NGOs in Beirut, Lebanon"
Cyrill Lachauer
Betreuung/Supervision: Prof. Dr. Urte Undine Frömming
Shark Islands and Impossibles: Aneignungen und Verbildlichungen des Meeres in der transnationalen Big Wave Surfer-Community
Bin Li
Doktorand /Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Research on "Exploring the New Chinese Community in Japan: A Study of Ikebukuro’s Chinese Community"
Jingyi Li
Doktorandin / Doct. Candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Research on: Home Making and Belonging in Return Migration: Korean Chines as International Labors
Simon Mutebi
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Funding: DAAD) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
PhD Research: Male Sexual Dysfunction and Implications on Perceptions of Gender and Sexuality among Young Men in Urban Tanzania
Amber Palmer
Doktorandin/Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming)
Doctoral research project: "Memory, Media and the Mediation of Modern Conflict: An Anthropological Approach to Media Portrayals of Arabs and Muslims who Aided Jews During the Holocaust." Funded by Binah Yitzrit Foundation, Texas
Ursula Probst
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Funding: Nafög) (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Promotionsforschung: "Sexualität in der Sexarbeit - Erfahrungen von osteuropäischen Sexarbeiter*innen in Berlin"
Eva Reichel
Betreuung/Supervision: Prof. Dr. Georg Pfeffer (i. R.)
The Ho. Living in a World of Plenty.
Lauren Reid
Doktorandin / Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Research on "Perception and representation of outer space in Thailand: An anthropological inquiry into how sensation and imagination shape our understanding of other worlds and beings"
Stephanie Salzhuber
Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Promotionsforschung: Das koloniale Erbe Mauritius - Prozesse der Be- und Entmächtigung der Kreolischen Community
Michael Saurer
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Research on: Initiation, Segregation and Negotiation as Key Factors in Conversion Processes between Christianity and Islam in South-western Uganda
Svenja Thornau
Doktorand / Doct. Candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Promotionsforschung: Umgang mit persönlichen Krisen unter kürzlich entlassenen PatientInnen einer psychiatrischen Fachklinik
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
Martin Tscholl
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Undine Frömming)
Das andere der Ordnung - visuell-anthropologische Analyse über das Erleben von Sinn-Konstruktion
Mechthild von Vacano
PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Doctoral Research: "Livelihoods, life conduct, subjectivities - a psychological-anthropological approach to work in Jakarta, Indonesia " (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Martin Wertenbruch
Doktorand (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: Was fühlst du? Geteilte Gefühle in einer 9. Gesamtschulklasse
Angelika Wolf
Betreuung/Supervision: Prof. i.R. Luig
Doctoral Research: "Auf der Suche nach Sicherheit. Zur Etablierung von Krankenversicherungen in Senegal."
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
Merima Šehagić
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
PhD research on "The Process of Integration from Perspectives of Bosniak Refugee Women: A Narrative Analysis of Self-Presentation and Coping Strategies for Resettlement in Germany"
