Scientific Education and Career
Since 2008/7 – Scientific coordinator of the comparative project: “Local state and social security in rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia”, funded by the Volkswagen foundation, see
http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/thelen/project.html
Since 2008/2 – Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich, (Switzerland).
2007/7 – 2008/1 Affiliate to the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, habilitation candidate and lecturer at the Martin-Luther-University in Halle.
2007/3 – 2007/6 Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Project group on Legal Pluralism), see: http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/thelen/
2006/3 – 2007/2 Joint research position at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Junior research group on „Post-socialist land relations“, http://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/struktur/institute/wisola/fg/plr/People/Tatjana/Tatjana/view) and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
2005/9 – 2006/2 Continuation of individual research project within the project group on legal pluralism at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
2005/3 – 2005/8 Lead researcher for the social-anthropological research in Germany within KASS (interdisciplinary comparative research project on kinship and social security in Europe, financed within the sixth framework program of the European Commission, http://www.eth.mpg.de/kass/index.html).
2002/9 – 2005/2 Post-doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Project Group on Legal Pluralism, individual project: “Changing social security relations in eastern Germany”.
2002 PhD in Anthroplogy at the Freie Universität Berlin, Thesis: Winners and Losers in Post-socialist agriculture. Property and (Dis-) continuity of social relations in Mesterszállás (Hungary) and Kisiratos (Romania)
1998 MA in Anthropology at the Universität zu Köln, Thesis: Ethnic Identity and Social Networks: The Hungarian Germans in Pécs, Hungary)
Fieldwork
2005-2006 Fieldwork in the framework of KASS project (Kinship and social Security) in Berlin and Brandenburg on kinship and social security.
2003 - 2005 Fieldwork in Rostock, Germany.
1999-2000 Fieldwork for PhD-Thesis in Mesterszállás, Hungary and Kisiratos, Romania
1996 Fieldwork for MA-thesis on social networks and ethnic identity in Pécs, Hungary
1995 Fieldwork on social networks in Costa Mesa within a joint university project in Irvine, USA
1994 Interviews on national stereotypes in Prague and Budapest (project of J.S. Boster)
Teaching experience
2009/FS Lecture at the Anthropological Seminar of the University of Zurich, (Switzerland) on “Methoden der Ethnologie” (Methods in Anthropology)
Seminar: Anthropologie der Macht (Anthropology of power)
2008/HS Seminar and exercise course (Übung, exercise course) and on “Ethnographie Süd-Ost-Europas” (Ethnography of South Eastern Europe)
2008/SS Lecture and exercise course at the Anthropological Seminar of the University of Zurich, (Switzerland): „Verwandtschaft und soziale Sicherung“ (Kinship and social security).
2007/WS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle: „Soziale Sicherung: Eine ethnologische Annäherung an Konzepte, Ideologien und Akteure“ (Social Security: An anthropological approach to concepts, ideologies and actors).
2006/SS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle: „Gender und Arbeit.“ (Gender and Work).
2006/SS Seminar at the Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Unversität in Berlin: „Ethnographie des Sozialismus“ (Ethnography of socialism, together with Dr. Georgia Kretsi).
2004/SS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther Universität in Halle: „Ethnologie der Arbeit“ (Anthropology of work).
2003/SS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Freie University Berlin: „Soziale Sicherung im post-sozialistischen Europa“ (Social security in post-socalist Europe, together with Carolin Leutloff-Grandits).
2002/SS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Freie University Berlin: „Gender in postsozialistischen Transformationsprozessen.“ (Gender in post-socialist transformation processes).
2001/WS Seminar at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Freie University Berlin: „Eigentum im Wandel: Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven auf Gesellschaften im Umbruch“ (Property in change: Socialanthropological perspectives on transformation societies).
1999/SS Lecture at University of Szeged (Hungary): „Social Anthropology and the study of Social Networks.” (in English).
Grants
1998 - 2001 PhD-scholarship in the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg: "Gesellschaftsvergleich in historischer, soziologischer und ethnologischer Perspektive"