Current Projects*

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Current Research Projects

Zahir Musa Abdal-Kareem (Associate)
Research Initiative on Migration

Faduma Abukar Mursal (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP) more


Nadine Rea Intisar Adam (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Conflict Transformation and Gender Mainstreaming


Christiane Adamczyk (Ph.D Candidate)


Alemayehu Debelo Jorgo (Ph.D Candidate, MaxNetAging)
PhD Research


Indira Alibayeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
Ethnic Differentiation, Interethnic Relations and Conflict in Central Asia: the case of the Uzbeks in Kazakstan


Aida Alymbaeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
Contesting Kalmak Identity in Contemporary Kyrgyzstan


Ogato Ambaye (Associate)


Louise Bechthold (Research Fellow)
Kinship and Genealogical Relations: Practices of Name Avoidance, and Networks of Feasting and Gift Exchange in Rural Southern Kyrgyzstan (Kinship Universals and Variation)


Maarten Bedert (Ph.D Candidate)
The articulation of belonging in post-war Liberia


Małgorzata Biczyk (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Lucie Buffavand (Ph.D Candidate)
Political anthropology of the Bodi funeral


Sandra Calkins (Research Fellow)


Brian Campbell (Research Fellow)
CONVIVENCIA


James Carrier (Associate)
Current Projects


Solange Guo Chatelard (Ph.D Candidate)


Youssouf Diallo (Research Partner)
Ethno-Nationalism Côte d'Ivoire


Daniela Dietz (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Albert K. Drent (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Competing Practices in Conflict?


John Eidson (Senior Research Fellow)
Political Economy and Political Clientelism in the Agricultural and Industrial Region South of Leipzig


Immo Eulenberger (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Ateker People – mutual frontiers and integration


Peter Finke (Cooperation Partner, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Christina Gabbert (Research Partner)
Lands of the Future Research Initiative


Nina Glick Schiller (Research Partner)
Homeland Ties and the Incorporation of Foreigners, Halle, Germany and Manchester, USA


Joachim Görlich (Associate)
Transformations of subject-object-relations in Melanesia


Martine Guichard (Senior Research Fellow)
Kinship Universals and Variation
Friendship and Kinship: On the difference and relevance of two systems of social relationships. The case of the Fulbe societies of northern Cameroon and northern Benin


Patrick Heady (Coordinator Kinship)
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description


Markus V. Hoehne (Research Partner)
Research Initiative on Migration


Remadji Hoinathy (Research Partner, C.R.A.S.H.)
Oil Exploitation and its Impact on Logone Oriental Communities' Modes and Conditions of Living


Wolfgang Holzwarth (Research Partner, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
CASCA Project


Eliza Isabaeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
Migration into ‘Illegality’ and the Making of the State in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: The Case of a Squatter Settlement in Bishkek


Aksana Ismailbekova (Research Partner)


Kaleb Kassa (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Changing Pattern of Interethnic Conflict, ‘Retaliation’ and Mediation: The Hamaer-Daassanaech Case, Southern Ethiopia


Karimova, Baktygul (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


David O´Kane (Senior Research Fellow)
Education Policies in Post-Conflict Reconstruction Societies: Sierra Leone


Jonas Klee (Ph.D Candidate)
Current Project


Jacqueline Knörr (Head of Research Group)
Current Research


Hassan Hussein Kochore (Ph.D Candidate, MaxNetAging)


Florian Köhler (Associate)
Contemporary pastoralist identities and changing forms of mobility among Woɗaaɓe in Eastern Niger


Christian Laheij (Reserach Fellow)
Religious Change, Identity Politics and Uncertainty in Peri-Urban Northern Mozambique


Verena La Mela (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
Kinship Universals and Variation


Siri Lamoureaux (Associate)
Language, communication technologies and identity in South Kordofan, Sudan


Shauna LaTosky (Associate)


Agathe Menetrier (Ph.D Candidate)
Between Belonging and Exclusion: Refugees' adaption to UNHCR strategies and practices of 'Local Integration'. The case of long-term refugees in Dakar, Senegal


Munkh-Erdene Lkhamsuren (Associate, Georg Forster Research Fellowship)
Making Mongolia Multi-Ethnic: Knowledge, Power and Identity


Mossa Hamid Wassie (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Conflict Dynamics in a Three-Level Game: Conflict Formation in Gambella, Southwest Ethiopia


Harald Müller-Dempf (Associate)


Bakyt Muratbayeva (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)
On the practices of seeing health and illness in Central Asia: collective identities, legitimacies and purification in the case of Turkistani Khojas


Sophie Nakueira (Research Fellow)


Alexander Pashos (Senior Research Fellow)
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description


Barbara Pieta (Ph.D Candidate MaxNetAging)


Nicole Reichert (Ph.D Candidate)
Laotian Transnational Spaces. From Laos to East and West Germany


Andrea Riester (Associate)


Stephen Reyna (Research Partner)
Global Warring


Ameyu Godesso Roro (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Transformation in Gumuz-Oromo Relations: Identity, Conflict and Social Order in Ethiopia


Meltem Sancak (Associate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Tabea Scharrer (Research Fellow)
Belonging nowhere or everywhere? Somalian return migrants in East Africa (Research Initiative on Migration)
Placemaking: Somali migrants in Kenyan cities


Merle Schatz (Associate)


Günther Schlee (Director)
Current Projects and Consultancy Reports
Kinship Universals and Variation - Brief Project Description


Ina Schröder (Associate)
“The Time of Singing Arrows”: role-play, tourism and self-presentation in indigenous culture camps for children and youth, Western Siberia


Anita Schroven (Research Fellow)
After Ebola: generational changes after crisis


Friederike Stahlmann (Ph.D Candidate IMPRS REMEP)
Disputing amidst Uncertainty Procedures of dispute management in ‘post-war’ times – disputing parties’ accounts, Bamyan/Afghanistan 2009


Jessica Steinecke (Ph.D Candidate)


Christian Straube (Ph.D Candidate)
Mining with Chinese Characteristics? Sino-Zambian encounters on the African Copperbelt


Timm Sureau (Research Fellow and Coordinator IMPRS REMEP)
National integration at a turning point – The case of South Sudan


Mark Sweha (Ph.D Candidate)
CONVIVENCIA


Turaeva Rano (Associate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Han Vermeulen (Associate)
Anthropology, Ethnology, and Ethnography in Europe and the USA


Margarethe Waldt (Ph.D Candidate, Halle-Zurich Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia - CASCA)


Wilson Trajano Filho (Research Partner)
Comparing Creole proto-nationalism and mutual-aid institutions in processes of integration and conflict in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde


Karen Witsenburg (Associate)
 


Yohannes Yitbarek Ejigu (Ph.D Candidate)

*List of current projects sorted alphabetically by researcher.

(Update: August 8, 2017)

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