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STAFF
RESEARCH TEAM
Rahel
Baumgartner, M.A.
Univ.-Lect.
Susanne Binder, PhD
Jasmine Böhm,
M.A.
Barbara Danczul,
PhD
Univ.-Lect.
Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski, PhD
Univ.-Lect.
Gebhard Fartacek, PhD
Barbara Grubner,
PhD
Univ.-Lect.
Ernst Halbmayer, PhD
Guntram Hazod,
PhD
Anna Jabloner,
M.A.
Stephan Kloos,
M.A. |
Ines
Kohl, PhD
Fernand Kreff,
M.A.
Univ.-Lect.
Mag. Gudrun Kroner, M.A.
Kirsten Melcher,
M.A.
Walter Probstler,
M.A.
Stephan Rutkowski,
M.A.
Hilde Schäffler,
M.A.
Univ.-Lect.
Andrea Strasser-Camagni, M.A.
Elke Studer,
M.A.
Univ.-Lect.
Jelena Tošic, PhD
Günther
Windhager, PhD |
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Rahel Baumgartner,
M.A.
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 02/2002 to 07/2002.
Research grant for the publication "Bruchlinien im Eis.
Ethnologie des zirkumpolaren Nordens", LIT-Verlag, Wien,
2005.
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Univ.-Lect.
Susanne Binder, PhD
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2003.
Projects: Cross Cultural Learning from the Perspectives of Ethnicity- and Socialization- Research Techniques
and Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl. Lecturer
at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
of Vienna (Refugee Studies). Courses at the educational Institute
of the City of Vienna.
Research focus: Migration
Issues in Western Europe, Refugee Studies, Transnational Studies,
Intercultural Education, Ethnicity, ethnic/cultural Identity,
Former Yugoslavia, Southeast Europe.
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Jasmine Böhm, M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 06/2002.
Studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology and Educational
Studies at the University of Vienna.
Research focus: Visual Anthropology;
Buddhism in Tibet; Shamanship; Gender Studies; Social and
Museum pedagogics.
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Barbara
Danczul, PhD
Regional focus Middle East | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 03/2001 to 06/2003.
Project: “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth?” Local Strategies for Conflict Resolution of Violence and Revenge in Egypt.
11/2002 - 03/2003 Research scholarship at the Max Planck Institute
for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale. 03/2003 - 05/2005 Research
scholarship at the University of Vienna.
Research focus: Anthropology
of law with a main focus on legal pluralism, out of court
conflict resolution/mediation, Islamic religious law and jurisprudence;
regional field work on inter-group conflicts and dispute settlement
in Egypt.
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Univ.-Lect.
Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski, PhD
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2002.
Research focus: Politics and
religion, diaspora communities - self representations, identity
and ideology, nationalistic movements, visual anthropology,
contemporary arts, african and carribean social systems.
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Univ.-Lect.
Gebhard Fartacek, PhD
Regional focus Middle East and Europe
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Participation in the research program from 01/2001
to 12/2005.
Associate at the Institut Français d'Études Arabes
de Damas (IFEAD), Damaskus, Arabic Republic Syria.
Lectures at the Danube University Krems, University of Vienna,
an the Austrian Orient Society - Hammer Purgstall (ÖOG/HP).
Projects: Zones of Uncertainty: Ritual and Taboo in the Near East from the Perspectives of Space and Time and Alpine Popular Culture, Seen from Outside: The Austrian Musikantenstadl.
Publication project: Pilgrimage Cities in the Syrian Periphery. An Ethnographic Study of the Cognitive Construction of Sacred Places and their Practical Relevance.
Since 2006 scientific staff at the Social
Anthropology Unit at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Research focus: Cosmologies
and religious belief systems in the Middle East as well as
local strategies of conflict management. Epistemological models
and methods of qualitative research.
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Barbara
Grubner, PhD
Theory and Method |
E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2002 to 07/2002.
Research focus: Feminist theory,
social anthropology of violence, social and scientific evaluation
projects.
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Univ.-Lect.
Ernst Halbmayer, PhD
Theory and Method | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 10/2003 to 05/2004.
Project: Interdisciplinary, qualitative and comparative methods.
Research focus: Social organisation
and world view, comparative empirical research methods and methodologies,
world society and its less industrialized regions, conceptions
of nature and environment, Latin America, indigenous cultures,
anthropology of Carib-speaker.
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Guntram
Hazod, PhD
Regional focus Central
Asia | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2004 to 07/2004
and from 11/2005 to 06/2006.
Project: Historical Maps of Central Tibet.
Editor of Volume III (with Andre Gingrich) in the serial of
the research program "Local Identities and wider influences"
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
Title: "Der Rand und die Mitte. Beiträge zur Sozialanthropologie
und Kulturgeschichte Tibets und des Himalaya" (Publications).
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Anna Jabloner,
M.A.
Theory and Method
Participation in the research program in 10/2005.
Research grant for the publication "Implodierende Grenzen.
Ethnizität und „Race“ in Donna Haraways Technowissenschaft",
Passagen Verlag, Wien, 2005.
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Stephan
Kloos, M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2004 to 07/2004.
Project: Tibetan Medicine among the Buddhist Dards of Ladakh.
Student in the UCSF Medical Anthropology & History of Health
Sciences Program, School of Medicine, University of California,
San Francisco. 2000/01 ERASMUS exchange at Brunel University,
West London: participation in the M.Sc. program for Medical
Anthropology. 2000 Mussoorie, India: Hindi language course.
Research focus: The social organization
of traditional medical systems in South Asia (Tibetan Medicine,
Ayurveda) with special emphasis on the Himalayas (Ladakh, Nepal).
International health and development in relation to medical
pluralism, global and local power structures, and indigenous
knowledge.
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Ines Kohl,
PhD
Regional focus Middle East | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 07/2003 to 12/2003.
Project: Identities between Boundaries: Strategies of Belonging among the Imajeghen (Tuareg) of Libya.
Research focus: Fieldwork in
the Sahara, especially in Libya; Tuareg (Imajeghen and Ishumar);
Anthropology of Borderlands, Migration and Transnationality;
Anthropology and Tourism.
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Fernand
Kreff, M.A.
Theory and Method | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 09/2002 to 07/2004.
Project: Basic Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology in the Globalization Debate.
Since 2005 part of the research
team of the ASF translational project
Handbook Globalisation Face to Face. Anthropological
Insights for Practical Use.
Research focus: Concepts of
globalization in social and cultural anthropology; social
studies of science and technology; epistemology.
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Univ.-Lect. Gudrun Kroner,
M.A.
Regional focus Middle East |
E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 10/2003 to
03/2004.
Project: Beyond the Ties of Home. A Comparison of Female Refugees in the Arabic-Islamic world.
Scholarship holder of the PhD program of the Austrian Academy
of Sciences, scientific worker on the project "Dimensionen
der Identitätsbildung: Gedachte und gelebte Zugehörigkeiten
in der islamischen Welt/Palästina" gefördert
von der Fritz-Thyssen Stiftung, Research Assistant at the AUC
(American University in Cairo), Affiliated Scholar at the "Center
for Gender and Sexuality" at the NYU (New York University).
Research focus: Refugees
and migrants, identity constructions, transnationalism, biographies
of refugees.
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Kirsten
Melcher, M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia | E-Mail
Participation in the research program in 05/2002.
Feasibility study of the project "Regio Science –
ways to knowledge" and organization of the Science Week
2002 (as a part of the training course in project management,
IBIS acam, Salzburg).
Forschungsschwerpunkte: Mountainous
landscapes at the juncture of politics, social relations and
cultural perceptions, language and natural space: representations,
oral tradition and dimensions of local farmer's knowledge; material
culture (esp. textiles); local concepts of space (toponyms);
local identities and phenomena of globalization.
Interdisciplinary research and applied anthropology in school,
museum and regional development.
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Walter Probstler,
M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia
Participation in the research program from 08/2005 to 11/2005.
Project: Cultural History of the Buryats in Northeastern Mongolia.
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Stephan
Rutkowski, M.A.
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2002 to 06/2002.
Research focus: Nationalism,
migration and Minority Rights in Europe, Human Rights and discrimination.
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Hilde Schäffler,
M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2001.
Publication project: Ethnological Knowledge, Objects and Colonial Power, which has been completed with the publication Begehrte
Köpfe. Christoph Fürer-Haimendorfs Feldforschung im
Nagaland (Nordostindien) der 30er Jahre. The book (in
German) has been published in 2006 by Böhlau.
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Univ.-Lect.
Andrea Strasser-Camagni, M.A.
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 01/2002
and from 06/2005 to 12/2006.
Project: Global Rights and Local Contexts: Human Rights for Women and their Transformation in the Daily Lives of Women in Armenia.
2002-2004 OSCE office Jerevan, Democratization Officer; 2000-2001
head of the Central Asia and South Caucasus information centre
at the Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall;1999
Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department at the National
University of Ireland/Maynooth.
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Elke Studer,
M.A.
Regional focus Central Asia | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 02/2001 to 01/2002.
Project: Races for the Gods. Byang thang ’char can rta rgyug.
Research focus: Buddhist and
pre-Buddhist religious concepts and their local and tutelary
gods and goddesses; small and big rituals and festivals, political
and cosmological aspects of mountain divinity worship.
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Univ.-Lect.
Jelena Tošic, PhD
Regional focus Europe | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 12/2005.
Project: Global Rights and Local Contexts: The Discourse of Human Rights, Democratization and Globalization in Post-socialist Transformations in Serbia and Montenegro.
From 01/2006 to 01/2007 scientific staff at the Social Anthropology
Unit at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Research focus: Human rights
and globalisation in the Balkans, civil society, transition
in post-communist countries. Former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro.
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Günther
Windhager, M.A.
Regional focus Middle East | E-Mail
Participation in the research program from 01/2001 to 01/2002.
Publication project: From Lemberg to Mecca (1900-1927).The early biography of Leopold Weiss, alias Muhammad Asad.
Lectures about Weiss/Asad in Vienna, Graz and Piran/Pirano (Slovenia)
as well as collaboration at the memorial event on the occasion
of the 100th birthday of Leopold Weiss/Muhammad Asad, Österreichische
Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall in cooperation with the
Austrian-Pakistani Society, 18th May 2000.
Currently (2005–2008) director of the research project "Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) at the Saudi court, 1927-1932" at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
-> Short description of the current research project (English)
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Wittgenstein-Preis 2000
Kommission für Sozialanthropologie
Schwindgasse 14/6
A-1040 Wien
Tel.: 0043/1/515 81 - 6677
Fax: 0043/1/503 68 73 - 6680
wittgenstein2000@oeaw.ac.at
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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