STAFF

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Prof. Elke Mader, PhD
Prof. Alice Pechriggl, PhD
Prof. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, PhD
Prof. Peter Schweitzer, PhD
 
 
 
Prof. Elke Mader, PhD

Senior lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
2005-2006 Visiting professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria

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Permanent member of the scientific committee of the Austrian Institute for Latin American Studies and (1999-2002) chairperson of Austrian Association of Latin American Research.

2004-2005 Director and team member of the project "OEKU-Online. An interdisciplinary Content Pool for economy, culture and environment" (financed by the fund of the Austrian National Bank).

2003 Scholar at the interdisciplinary seminar for Latin American Studies and Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Gender Studies, University of Vienna, Austria (until 02/2004).

2002 Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Gender Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

Director of the interdisciplinary project Latin American Studies Online (part of the research focus "New Media in University Education" of the EU and the Austrian Ministry of Education).

Research focus: Amerindian Culture, Latin America, myth, concept of the person, gender relations, political anthropology, intercultural relations, anthropology of tourism.
 
 
 
Prof. Alice Pechriggl, PhD

Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Second speaker of the Center for Advanced Gender Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

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2002 Visiting Professor at the University Paris I, Sorbonne, Centre Gustave Glotz.

2000/1 and 2001/2 Visiting Professor at the Center for Advanced Gender Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.

2000 Visiting Professor at the University Paris VIII, St. Denis.
 
 
 
Prof. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, PhD

Professor for Social Anthroplogy at the University of Bielefeld, Faculty for Sociology, Germany
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2002 Chair of the Section "Sociology of Development and Social Anthropology" of the German Sociological Association.

2001 Board of directors of the Bielefeld Institute for Global Society Studies, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.

1996-1998 President of the Swiss Society of Social Anthropology.

Research focus: Political anthropology: ethnicity, integration- and minority research, democratization processes in subnational contexts, legal anthropology (part. human and minority rights), cultural change and inter-cultural communication, social anthropological perspectives on processes of globalization. Regional research topics: Himalaya, South Asia, Switzerland.
 
 
 
Prof. Peter Schweitzer, PhD

Head of the Anthropology department, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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2001-2004 President of the Internationalen Arctic Social Science Association (IASSA).
1997-2002 Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
1992-1997 Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Since 1992 Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria.
1992 Department of European Ethnology, University of Graz.
1991-1992 Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Research focus: Russian North, North America, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, social organization (kinship, gender, politics), hunter-gatherer studies, the history of anthropology, transnationalism and other forms of interethnic contact, practices and ideologies of colonialism and their local impacts.

 
   
     
 
 

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