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