Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Katharina holds the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Her research is situated at the interface of political anthropology and critical race studies, STS and critical heritage studies. She has worked on diasporic memory and pan-African identity politics (African Homecoming, Left Coast Press 2010); violence and memorial landscapes (“Landscapes of violence”, special issue of History & Memory 2011); race and technologies of belonging in the European border regime (“Technologies of Belonging”, special issue of Science, Technology and Human Values 2014); race and the sciences of human origins, especially population genomics and biological anthropology (special section “Face and Race”, American Anthropologist 2020) as well as on the multiple articulations of political subjectivities (special issue “Political Subjectivity in Times of Transformation”, Critical African Studies 2018). She is PI with the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence where she is heading the research project “Karakul Circulations: Colonial Economies and the Un_Making of Disciplinary Knowledges in Germany and Namibia”.
katharina.schramm@uni-bayreuth.de
Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago is a Ph.D. student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm.
Andrea-Vicky’s current project focuses on Memory Studies, Black German Studies, Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Studies and Museology
Thiago Barbosa
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
PhD student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm, Thiago’s research interests include: racialization in science and technology, decolonization, anthropology’s global histories, and political ecology.
thiago.pinto-barbosa@uni-bayreuth.de
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Dr. Amiel Bize
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Postdoctoral Researcher in social and cultural anthropology, working on post-agrarian rural spaces and the financialization of development
Dr. Viola Castellano
Postdoctoral Fellow of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning
Adjunct Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Bologna
Interests in anthropology of global inequalities, anthropology of institutions and social services, humanitarianism, political subjectivity, racism and racialization, neoliberal governance, urban anthropology, social policies, migration management, right to asylum and repatriation.
Eileen Jahn
Doctoral candidate at the Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, Universität Bayreuth
Eileen Jahn is pursuing a Ph.D. project which focuses on the politics of access to electricity networks as they are mobilized in knowledge by undersupplied and precariously connected residents in South Africa. She completed her Master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is currently part of the Contributing Editors program with the American Anthropologist.
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Danielle Isler
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
BIGSAS Junior Fellow and PhD student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm. In her PhD project, Danielle explores how racialized spaces (especially Whitened spaces), exclusions and political subjectivities are constructed in Cape Town, South Africa. Her interests include the anthropology of global inequalities, urban anthropology, border studies, Critical Whiteness studies, racism and racialization, decolonization, intersectionality and embodiment.
Sarah Lempp
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Ph.D. student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm and research associate working on the DFG project: “From social gaze to bureaucratic standards: Doing race in affirmative action practices in Brazil”
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Sabine Netz
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Sabine is currently working as research associate and PhD student at the University of Bayreuth in a DFG-project on age classifications / negotiations and their effects for migrants in Germany. She looks at how these practices of age mirror, perpetuate and obscure transnational inequalities. In general, she is interested in the study of border and migration regimes, childhood and youth, science and technology, transnational inequalities, citizenship, capitalism as well as post- and decolonial theories and practices.
Regina Sarreiter
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Cultural and Social Social Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
Ph.D. Student with Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm
Goethe-Institut, Munich
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Dr. Nasima Selim
Senior Research Associate, Universität Bayreuth
Dr. Nasima Selim is an anthropologist, writer, educator, and researcher. She navigates the terrains of knowledge and praxis in medical anthropology, global health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam in and across Western Europe and South Asia. Nasima is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the department of anthropology, University of Bayreuth. Creative writing (non-fiction and fiction), reflexive-non-hierarchial pedagogy, and interdisciplinary collaborations inform her scientific and literary aspirations. Her current ethnographic book project is titled “Wayfaring hearts: Sufi healing practices in Germany”. She is also working on a postdoctoral research project titled “Who has the right to breathe? The politics of respiration and pandemic lifeworlds in South Asia”. Nasima co-founded the working group AG Public Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association, DGSKA.
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Mihir Sharma
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
BIGSAS Junior Fellow und Ph.D. student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm; writes about race, anti-racism, social movements, in print media for AK and Jacobin; interested in decolonization, action research, and public anthropology; co-convenor for EASA Networks Race and Ethnicity and Social Movements, member of AG Public Anthropology, ABA, DGSKA, and GEW Bayern. he/him.
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Eleanor Schaumann
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universität Bayreuth
BIGSAS Junior Fellow und PhD student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm. Eleanor’s current project focuses on the storytelling and knowledge practices around Karakul sheep in Namibia and Germany.
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 