Der wissenschaftliche Beirat des Frobenius-Instituts

   
Bartelheim 2Photo: Amanda Crain Prof. Dr. Martin Bartelheim (chairman) is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen. His scientific interests lie in the archaeology of the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages in Central Europe and the Mediterranean with special focus on the development of societies, economies and landscapes. Since 2013 he is the speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 1070 ResourceCultures that undertakes interdisciplinary research into the socio-cultural dimensions of resource use. He has authored a book on "The role of metallurgy in Prehistoric societies" in 2007 and co-edited several books such as "Sociocultural Dynamics and the Use of Resources" (2017) and "Key resources and socio-cultural developments in the Chalcolithic of the Iberian Peninsula" (2017).
   
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Prof. Dr. Peter Berger is Associate Professor of Indian Religions and the Anthropology of Religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen. He conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork among indigenous communities in highland Odisha, India (since 1996). His general interests in socio-cultural anthropology concern a) history, theory and methodology of anthropology; b) anthropology of religion (especially religious change, values, ritual, food); c) indigenous religions (especially in Central India). He is currently Head of the Department of Comparative Study of Religion and was visiting professor at the University of Zürich in 2012 and visiting fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Munich in 2015. His books include "Feeding, Sharing and Devouring: Ritual and Society in Highland Odisha, India" (de Gruyter 2015), and he co-edited "Ultimate Ambiguities: Investigating Death and Liminality" (Berghahn 2016), "The Modern Anthropology of India" (Routledge 2013) and "The Anthropology of Values" (Pearson 2010).

   

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Prof. Dr. Ketevan Gurchiani is professor of anthropology at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Her special interests have been lived religion, the domesticated and undomesticated nature of the city, and informal practices of resistance. Since 2020 Ketevan Gurchiani is leading the project: “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage”. In this project, she is interested in studying different aspects of human-nonhuman entanglement in the city. Starting from 2021 Ketevan Gurchiani is also involved in the project “An Anthropology of Gardens. Otherwise and Elsewhere” (principal investigator Paul Manning). Her other research projects include „Surrogacy as Networked Phenomenon“ (2020-2023, principal investigator Elene Gavashelishvili) and “Religiosity among young Georgians" (2015-2018). She had been visiting scholar at UCLA, Columbia University, New York University, and Oxford University in the years 2008-2015. In 2019 she was a fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe Universität Frankfurt. Her latest publications include: Rivers between nature, infrastructure, and religion, Central Asian Survey (2022): 1-20. Baptizing into Kin: Religion and Peace in a Multi-ethnic Village in Georgia, Journal of Religion in Europe 14, no. 3-4 (2021): 272-296. Die verborgene Macht der Bäume. Urbaner Widerstand in Tiflis (2022) in: Verdeckter Widerstand in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Eds. Ferdinand Sutterlüty, Almut Poppinga.

   
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Prof. Dr. Vinzenz Hediger is Professor of Cinema Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt (Main), where he directs the Graduate Research Training Program "Configurations of Film". He obtained his PhD in film studies from the University of Zurich in 1999 and was Krupp foundation chair of documentary studies at Ruhr University Bochum from 2004, before moving to Frankfurt in 2011. His research focuses on film history, film theory and on marginal film forms, including research and science films. Recent publications include "Gene, Gehirn, Archiv. Über den Ort der menschlichen Natur im humanethologischen Filmarchiv" (in Zeitschrift für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie 2/2017). A collection of essays on science and film "Epistemic Screens. Science and Film", co-edited with Scott Curtis and Oliver Gaycken, is due out from Amsterdam University Press in 2019. He is a co-founder of NECS – European Network for Cinema and Media Studies and the founding editor of the Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft. He is a member of the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature and a Principal Investigator of the Cluster of Excellency "The Formation of Normative Orders".

   
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PD Dr. Sabine Klocke-Daffa is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. She holds a PhD from Muenster University on exchange relations among the Southern African Khoekhoen and a PD degree (habilitation/second PhD) from Tuebingen University on Applied Anthropology. Her research focuses on informal and formal social security systems, ritual exchange, cultural resources and public anthropology. She is coeditor of the book "Berufsorientierung für Kulturwissenschaftler" (2009). Recent publications include "Contested claims to social welfare: Basic income grants in Namibia" (2017), "Ressource Complexes, Networks, and Frames. The Sambatra in Madagascar" (2017), "'On the safe side of life': Cultural Appropriations of Funeral Insurances in Namibia" (2016) and "'My dad has 15 wives and 8 ancestors to care for'. Conveying anthropological knowledge to children and adolescents" (2015). Currently, she is editing a publication which intends to serve as a handbook for the newly established field of Applied Anthropology within German universities.

   
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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krause is professor of Prehistory at Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany.
Apart from his teaching activities, his work includes to a large extent archeological excavations, especially in the Urals (Russia), in the Montafon (Austria) and currently also in Sängersberg near Fulda (Germany).
After his doctorate on Early Bronze Age grave finds from Singen am Hohentwiel, Krause received a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute and travelled to the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and the Near East.
Since 1987 he has worked for the Archaeological Monument Conservation Department in Stuttgart.
At the same time he habilitated with a thesis on archaeometallurgy.
Together with Svend Hansen, from 2016 to 2018 he was initiator and speaker of prehistory conflict research, which is part of the LOEWE-Research-Program funded by the state of Hessen (Germany).
Fortifications and the formation of hierarchical structures during the Bronze Age belong to his personal focuses.

   
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Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin is professor of Ancient History at Goethe University Frankfurt (Main). His current research concerns cultural and religious entanglements in late antiquity. He is Principal Investigator of the project "The Polyphony of Late Antiquity" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His books include "Justinian. Das christliche Experiment" (2011) and "Die Frühen Christen" (2nd edition 2019). A volume entitled "The image of Christian rulers in Late Antiquity" is in print. Additionally, he is co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift and a member of the editorial board of the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum and of Studies in Late Antiquity. He is a full member of the German Archaeological Institute and awardee of the Erwin Stein Prize (2019) and of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2015).
   
 Pinther Annette KorollPhoto: Annette Koroll Prof. Dr. Kerstin Pinther is Professor of African Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She studied cultural anthropology and art history in Frankfurt (Main) and Munich, and obtained her Ph.D on urban imaginaries and image practices in Ghana. She was a senior researcher at Goethe University Frankfurt, from 2010-2014 she was Assistant Professor for the Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa at Free University Berlin. Since 2014 she is Professor for the Arts of Muslim Cultures and the Arts of Africa at LMU Munich. Her research activities  focus on urban cultures, contemporary art and architecture in Africa, design histories and forms of migration. Among her publications are "Afropolis. City, Media, Art" (2012, with Larissa Förster & Christian Hanussek) and recently "Flow of Forms / Forms of Flow. Design Histories between Africa and Europe (2017/18, with Alexandra Weigand). She is head of a DFG-project on Fashion and Styles in African Cities: Case Studies from Lagos and Doula (2017-2020). Kerstin Pinther is also a curator and currently works on a film project on design and architectural histories in Bamako, Mali (with Cheick Diallo & Tobias Wendl).
 

 

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Prof. Dr. Judith Schlehe is head of the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Freiburg.
In addition to receiving several honors for her research from the German Research Foundation (DFG), she was, inter alia, elected member of Academia Europaea in 2015 and member of the reading committee ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) book prize in 2017.
She undertook long-term field research in various countries in South East Asia and Mongolia.
Her main thematic interests lie in cultural globalization and intercultural issues, gender, religious dynamics, popular forms of cultural representation, social imaginaries of East and West, new approaches to transnational collaboration and student migration.
Her latest research projects are "Representations of historical life worlds in theme- and culture parks: Reflections of 'self' and 'other' in Europe and Asia" and “Popular Historical Cultures in Indonesia: Current References to the Past in the Context of Democratisation and Decentralisation” within the interdisciplinary research group "Historical life-worlds in contemporary popular knowledge cultures" (2007-2017), both funded by DFG.

   
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Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz is professor of Archaeology and History of the Roman Provinces (Provinzialrömische Archäologie) at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a. M. since 2015. His main scientific interests concern Roman Frontier Studies and studies on Roman frontier societies, especially along Rhine and Danube, Roman grave monuments and burials, ceramics, Latin epigraphy and forms of communication in the Roman provinces. He focusses mainly on the northwestern provinces of the Roman Empire. He published on Roman forts and military structures, on Roman citizenship, on the development of funeral architecture and on so called small epigraphy (inscriptions mineures), i. e. graffiti and handwritten Text on curse tablets and on all kinds of objects of everyday life.

   
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Prof. Dr. Eva Spies is Junior Professor for the Study of Religion with a special focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and has done ethnographic research in Niger and Madagascar. Her current research focuses on empirical and theoretical questions of religious diversity and the relationality of religious traditions. In Madagascar she studies encounters and mutual perceptions of religious groups in the context of Christian South-South mission. Another focus of her work is the field of religion and international development, in particular the forms of religious engineering – a concept she developed together with Paula Schrode. Eva Spies is PI of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), member of the executive board of the Institute of African Studies in Bayreuth and founder and spokesperson of the work group “Africa” of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW). Recent publications include: "Schrift und Charisma: Zur Rolle von Lehrbüchern in der pfingstlich-charismatischen Mission in Subsahara-Afrika". (2017) and "Pluralicity and Relationality: New Directions in African Studies." (2016, with Rüdiger Seesemann).

   
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Prof. Dr. Vibha Surana is Professor at the Department of German, University of Mumbai. Her areas of specialisation include cross cultural discourses, comparative aesthetics, German language, literature and didactics. Apart from her teaching and research in these areas, particularly on the concept of culture and interculturality, she has contributed to the modernization and standardization of learning of Marathi Language by applying the German language teaching science to Marathi with the help of the Marathi experts. She is a Humboldt Research Fellow and was awarded the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Prize in 2018 for her contribution to the field of teaching, research and international cooperation. In 2021 she was chosen for the Vasudha Paranjpe Smruti Puraskar award for her outstanding contribution to Marathi Language Teaching. She is member of the executive board of the Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Germanistik and the Vice President of the Goethe Society of India. Her major publications include Text und Kultur (2002), Die Europhonie der Kultur (2009), Revisiting Günter Grass. Voices from India and Germany (2017). Her administrative experience has been in the capacity of Head of the Department of German, University of Mumbai and as Incharge Director, Confucius Institute, University of Mumbai.