STAFF

COORDINATING TEAM

Andrea Ben Lassoued
Veronika Brandt, M.A.
Miriam Anne Frank
Sylvia Haas, PhD
Univ.-Lect. Eva-Maria Knoll, M.A. (part of the research team)
Julene Knox
Annika Lems
 
 
 
Andrea Ben Lassoued
Digital photo archive South Arabia
Participation in the research program from 03/2006 to 12/2006.
 
 
 
Veronika Brandt, M.A.
Media and public relations | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 02/2004 to 12/2006.

1996-2003 studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology in combination with Philosophy, International Development Politics and Science of Communication. Thesis (together with Stephan Rutkowski): "Nationalismus und Diskriminierung am Beispiel von Roma in Wien".

Research focus: Nationalism and national consciousness, Gipsy and Identity Construction, Migration, Refugee and Asylum Politics, Visual Anthropology.
 
 
 
Miriam Anne Frank
Fundraising Coordinator | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2003.

Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology in combination with International Law, Political Science and Sociology at the University of Vienna. 1983-1990 Bachelor studies at the University of San Francisco und Academy of Arts in San Francisco, USA.

Research focus: Indigenous Peoples and topics related to the promotion and protection of their rights including Human Rights, International Law, Environment, Economics and Intellectual Property Rights. Anthropology of Law and Art, International Law, Political Science and Sociology.
 
 
 
Sylvia Haas, PhD
Management and Administration | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2005.

Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Arabian, Islamic and African Studies. 2002 Dissertation "Die Braut-Frau. Einige Überlegungen zur Kultur- und Gesellschaft der Tuareg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kel Ahaggar (Algerien); Gedanken zur nomadischen Lebensweise, Geisterglaube, sozialer Hierarchie und Ehe."

since 1986 administrative work at the Commission for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as well as at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.


Research focus:
Tuareg, gender relations, marriage, nomadism, Muslim societies; history of social anthropology in German-speaking countries.
 
 
 
Univ.-Lect. Eva-Maria Knoll, M.A.
Financial administration, Head of the office | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2004.

Project: Techno-Medical Developments in Social and Cultural Contexts.
 
Since 2005 part of the research team of the ASF translational project Handbook Globalisation Face to Face. Anthropological Insights for Practical Use and scientific staff at the Social Anthropology Unit at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Research assistant at the Center for Advanced Gender Studies, University of Vienna, lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna.

Since 2002 Dissertation (IVF-Tourism). Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology in combination with Women and Gender Studies at the University of Vienna (1995-2001). Thesis: "Reproduktionsmedizinische Imaginationen - Überlegungen zum österreichischen IVF-Diskurs aus ethnologisch-feministischer Perspektive".

1985 to 2000 Accountant and financial consultant.
 

 
 
Julene Knox
English copy-editing
Participation in the research program from 01/2003 to 04/2005.

 
 
Annika Lems
Internship Media and public relations
Participation in the research program from 02/2006 to 12/2006.
 
 
 
Sabine Maierhofer, M.A.
Medien-und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 08/2002.

1996 - 2001 Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology in combination with History of Arts and Philosophy, University of Vienna. 2001 Thesis:"Der Blick des Künstlers. Ethnologische Perspektiven zu Kunst- und Kulturfragmenten in der postkommunistischen georgischen Gesellschaft".
 
 
 
David Mihola
Digital photo archive South Arabia
Participation in the research program from 03/2006 to 12/2006.
 
 
 
Maximilian Sulpicius Stadler
Internship Media and public relations
Participation in the research program in 03/2007.
 
 
 
Univ.-Lect. Johann Stockinger, M.A.

IT and data networks
Participation in the research program from 03/2001 to 03/2002.
 
 
 
Norbert Striedinger
IT and data networks
IT administrator at the research program from 07/2002 to 12/2005.
 
 
 
Christian Wawrinec
Internship Media and public relations
Participation in the research program from 03/2006 to 06/2006.
 
 
   
     
 
 

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Notice: We want to inform you that the research program will come to an end on the 31st of March 2007. Since that time this homepage will not be updated anymore.

 
 
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