Doctoral Candidates
Karoline Buchner
Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Aleksei Akseshin
Doktorand / Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral research on "The Infrastructure of a minority: Salvation and Disconnectedness in Sharia"
Shadman Ardalanrad
Doctoral Candidate/ PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser)
Alexandra Bauer
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Dr. Anita von Poser), Elsa-Neumann-Fellowship
Research on: "Lebensgeschichten multi-rassifizierter Frauen der koreanischen Nachfolgegenerationen in Deutschland"
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.
Julia Nina Baumann
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project: "Manouvering in Academic Cultures: The Ethnographer’s Emotional Labor in Greedy Institutions"
Leonie Benker
Doktorandin / Doct. candidate (PD Dr. Jonas Bens)
Doctoral research on "Zur Entstehung eines ‚post-postkolonialen‘ political imaginary in Uganda"
Tirthankar Chakraborty
Doctoral Candidate (Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser)
Research - ‘Pedagogy of Fear’: An Ethnohistorical study of the institutionalisation of fear to create a subservient citizenry.
Florin Cristea
Research associate and PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
DFG project: Afflicted Minds – ‘Madness’, Morality, and Emotions in rural Bali (and Timor)
Sara El-Dayekh
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Doctoral Research on "What do migrant divorcees in Germany cry about when they cry their divorce? A sensitive look at post-divorce loss(es) and disenfranchised grief"
Cornelia Ertl
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin im SFB 1171 und Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Sandra Calkins)
Mitarbeit im Teilprojekt A07: Pflanzen berühren. Affektive Begegnungen im Botanischen Garten und Museum der Freien Universität Berlin
Asli Gücin
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral Research on "Assimilation by Dispossession: Eco-Political Implications of Transforming the Sacred Nature of Dersim"
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
Anna Helfer
PhD candidate at Freie Universität/ Leibniz Institut Moderner Orient (Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse)
PhD Project "Recent debates on the idea of Negritude in Dakar's Contemporary Art: Appropriation and Demarcation Processes as an Artistic Strategy of a Decolonial Practice" (working title)
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“
Annett Hoffmann
Doctoral canddate (Prof. Dr. Thoams Stodulka)
Doctoral research: Methoden Kinderzentrierter Forschungen: Zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft
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"
Iftikhar Hussain
Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
PhD Research on "Divided Families and Belonging in Kargil"
Susanne Jung
Research Assistant & Doctoral Candidate
Doctoral Research: "Sozialisation von Emotionen in einer indonesischen Gesellschaft" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Eva Sophia Kirmes
Doktorandin /Doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze)
Doctoral research: Aspirations for socio-ecological transformation – Indigenous women’s collective action for food sovereignty and anticipation of climate change
Lotte Knote
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Kai Kresse)
Doctoral research: "A feminist political ecology of seaweed farming: gendered livelihood strategies in aquaculture in the Western Indian ocean"
Henrike Kraul
Research Assistant and PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebelt), Library Officer
PhD project: “Dressing the Self – Formations of (bi)sexual and gender identities in Copenhagen, Denmark”
Anne Kukuczka
Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate (Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebelt)
Binyamin Lawal
Doktorand / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger); Förderung: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies / DAAD
PhD Research on "Expansion of the Sacred into the Public Space: Spatial Contestation between Muslims and Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria"
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/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project "Belonging in Migration: Korean Chinese as International Laborers"
Kristina Mashimi (geb. Dohrn)
Doctoral Candidate & Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger) (on leave till 31 May 2021, substituted by Ursula Probst)
Doctoral Research: "Beyond Classrooms: Education and Ethics in Schools of the Gülen Movement in Urban Tanzania" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Ernest Moronda
Doctoral candidate (PD Dr. Paola Ivanov)
Doctoral research on "An Ethnography: Re-Conceptualisation of Zanzibar Stone Town World Cultural Heritage Site"
Angela Robin Murtha
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project: “The (Re)building of Trust: A Case Study of Refugees Living in Germany”
Maximilian Aaron Müller
Doctoral Candidate (Prof. Dr. Anita von Poser)
Project: Affects and Processes of Institutionalization in Vietnamese Carescapes of Berlin
Severin Penger
PhD Candidate (Prof. Dr. Claudia Liebelt)
Research Project: “Traces of a City: Tattoos in Naples”
Lauren Reid
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
DokPhD Project "Thinking Beyond the Final Frontier: Cosmic Futures in Thailand"
Martin Rönnau
Doktorand / doctoral candidate (Prof. Dr. Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: „Zwischen Geistern und Neuronen — zur spirituellen Kompetenz in der psychotherapeutischen Integration psychedelischer Erfahrungen"
Stephanie Salzhuber
Doktorandin (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
Promotionsforschung: Das koloniale Erbe Mauritius - Prozesse der Be- und Entmächtigung der Kreolischen Community
Irina Savu Cristea
Doktorandin/ PhD candidate (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka)
PhD Project "Emotional regimes, personhood, and self-making practices among young women in North Bali – Pedagogies of self meet collaborative methodologies"
Janne von Seggern
Doktorandin / PhD candidate (Dr. Anita von Poser), DAAD Scholarship
PhD Research: Adaptation to Climate Change from a Fijian Perspective: Local Negotiations of International Education Policies such as Education for Sustainable Development
Martin Wertenbruch
Doktorand (Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler)
Promotionsforschung: Was fühlst du? Geteilte Gefühle in einer 9. Gesamtschulklasse
Simon Mutebi
Assoziiertes Mitglied der Arbeitsstelle Medical Anthropology I Global Health
Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Dar es Salaam
Grace Lanek Oroma
PH Candidate (Prof. Dr. Dilger)
Research topic: "Care and care practices during and after Ebola outbreaks: An ethnographic study of frontline health workers and Ebola survivors of the Ebola outbreak in Gulu in 2000/01, Uganda"
Carlos Rocha
Research Associate (Prof. Hansjörg Dilger)
Project: "A journey to master infections: an ethnography about capacity building on infection prevention and control (IPC) travelling to Guinea and Ivory Coast"
Niu Zhou
Doktorand / Doct. candidate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Doctoral research "COVID-19 at the Chinese Border: Ethnographic Research on a Border City in Yunnan"
Erin Kelso
Wiss. Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin (Dr. Jürgen Schaflechner)
Mitarbeit in dem VW-Freigeist-Projekt "The Populism of the Precarious: Marginalization, Mobilization, and Mediatization of South Asia's Religious Minorities"
