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STAFF
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS
Prof.
Andre Gingrich, PhD
Univ.-Lect. Johann Heiss, PhD
Univ.-Lect.
Johanna Riegler, PhD
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Prof. Andre Gingrich, PhD
Director of research, Wittgenstein
Award laureate 2000 | E-Mail
Since 1998 Full Professor, Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
Since 2003 Chairman of the Commission for Social Anthropology
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Publications (PDF)
Academic Awards:
1994-95 Weatherhead scholarship, School of American Research,
Santa Fe, NM
2000 Wittgenstein Award, Austrian Science Fund
Activities at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences:
since 1996 Member of the board of trustees, Institute for
the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia
1998-2002 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences; Member, Commission for Social Anthropology; Member
of the board of trustees, Department for City and Regional
research; Member of the board of trustees, Austrian Audiovisual
Research Archive
since 1999 Member, APART-Scholarship awarding commission
since 2000 Member, Commission for Development Studies
since 2002 real Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Scientific consultant:
1995-1999, 2001-2003 Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research Inc., New York
since 2000 Swiss National Fund/Fonds National Suisse SNF/FNS
2006/07 European Science Foundation ESF
since 2006 Vienna Science, Research and Technology Fund (WWTF)
International Positions:
1995-98 and since 2000 Member of the scientific advisory board
and international consultant, Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research Inc., New York
since 2000 International correspondent, Annual Review of Anthropology,
Palo Alto, CA
since 1999 Member of the scientific advisory board, European
Peace University (EPU), Stadtschlaining
since 1998 International member of the board of directors, Mediterranean
Ethnological Summer School (MESS), Piran, Slovenia
1997-98 Chairperson of the scientific advisory board, Wenner
Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Inc., New York
since 1995 Scientific consultant, School of American Research,
Santa Fe, NM
since 1993 Permantent evaluator of manuscripts for different
publishing houses, especially Cambridge University Press (Cambridge)
and Routledge (London)
1992-95 Member of the board of editors and review editors, Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale
1989 Founding member, European Association of Social Anthropologists
(EASA)
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Univ.-Lect. Johann Heiss,
PhD
Subst. director of research,
Regional focus Middle East| E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2004.
Project: Anthropological Interpretations in Southwest Arabia.
Studies in Classical Philology, Social and Cultural Anthropology,
and Middle East Studies at the University of Vienna. Dissertation
1998: "Tribale Selbstorganisation und Konfliktregelung.
Der Norden des Jemen zur Zeit des ersten Imams (10. Jh.)".
Since 2005 scientific staff at the Commission for Social Anthropology
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Editor of Volume II in the serial of the research program "Local
Identities and wider influences" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Title: "Veränderung
und Stabilität. Normen und Werte in islamischen Gesellschaften"
(Publications)
Research focus: Southern Arabia:
Pilgrim- and trade routes and their influence on identity
constructions; contacts of Europeans and Muslims at the time
of the Crusades; development of stereotypes in antiquity and
in Christian and Muslim Middle Ages; cooperation, family and
kinship in Eastern Austria.
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Univ.-Lect. Johanna Riegler,
PhD
Subst. director of research,
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to
02/2006.
Project: The Transformation of Labor: An East-West Comparison. In cooperation with the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Editor of Volume I in the serial of the research program "Local
Identities and wider influences" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Title: "Kulturelle
Dynamik der Globalisierung. Ost- und westeuropäische Transformationsprozesse
aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive" (Publications)
Research focus: Epistemological
theory in current Cultural and Social Anthropology, Cultural
implications of information/communication technology and genetic
engineering, Critical globalization theory, capitalist transition,
theory of labour, Post-communist transformations: workers and
the transition to capitalism in Russia.
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