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 Pinto Barbosa is postdoctoral researcher and academic advisor at the Institute for Anthropology at Leipzig University. Besides working in the intersection of science and art, Thiago is interested in questions of science and power, especially in relation to categorizations of difference, social inequalities, coloniality, and sustainability.
In Berlin, Thiago initiated a memorial project that deals with the history of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics. Born out of this project, Thiago’s dissertation analysed how Indian scientists adapted and challenged racializing theories and methods circulated from Germany. The multiple-award winning dissertation has been published as Racializing caste: Anthropology between Germany and India and the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970)” (De Gruyter, 2024). With co-author Urmilla Deshpande, Thiago also published the biography “Iru” (Speaking Tiger, 2024).

Petra Daňková is a junior professor of International Social Work at the Technical University Würzburg – Schweinfurt (Germany) (THWS) and a doctoral student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm (University of Bayreuth) and Prof. Dr. Tanja Kleibl (THWS). 

Her current transdisciplinary research project explores the intersection of transnational social work and the externalization of EU migration regime with specific attention to the malleable field formulated as “anti-human trafficking” in Nigeria, Italy and Germany.  

She co-edited the volumes Transnational Mobility and Externalization of EU Borders: Social Work, Migration Management and Resistance (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666935875/Transnational-Mobility-and-Externalization-of-EU-Borders-Social-Work-Migration-Management-and-Resistance ) and  Migration and Social Transformation: Engaged Perspectives (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370220695_Migration_and_Social_Transformation_Engaged_Perspectives) 

Website and contact: https://fas.thws.de/fakultaet/personen/person/prof-petra-dankova/

Eileen Jahn is pursuing a PhD based on ethnographic research in Johannesburg and Winterveld, South Africa, using electricity and the current crisis both as a site around which political power and imaginaries of socio-political transformation are assembled, and to conceptualize the workings of political power. She received her M.Sc. in Social Sciences (Anthropology) from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is currently part of the Contributing Editors Program at the American Anthropologist.

eileen.jahn@uni-bayreuth.de

Danielle Isler is a PhD student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm and a BIGSAS Junior Fellow (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies).

In her doctoral project, she explores racialized spaces – especially Whitened spaces – in Post-Apartheid Cape Town. She examines what Whiteness is and what Whiteness does, how it is constructed in space and how it relates to affects, inclusions and exclusions, and the de/construction of political subjectivities. Her interests include the anthropology of global inequalities, urban anthropology, citizenship studies, critical whiteness studies, racism and racialization.

Danielle Isler is also active in anti-racist education, offering workshops and consulting to promote a more inclusive society. 

Website: www.danielle-isler.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islerdanielle?igsh=MTNjbWprejZucmlnZw== 

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”

sarah.lempp@uni-bayreuth.de

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.

sabine.netz@uni-bayreuth.de

eileen.jahn@uni-bayreuth.de

Dr. Nasima Selim is an anthropologist, writer, educator, and researcher. She navigates the terrains of knowledge and praxis in medical anthropology, global and planetary health, public anthropology, and anthropology of Islam in and across Western Europe and South Asia. Creative writing (non-fiction and fiction), reflexive-non-hierarchical pedagogy, and interdisciplinary collaborations inform her scientific and literary aspirations. Her forthcoming ethnographic monograph is titled “Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany” (Berghahn 2024). She is working on a postdoctoral research project proposal titled<a href=”<a href="http://publicanthropology.dehttp://publicanthropology.de<http://publicanthropology.de/&#8221; data-type=”link” data-id=”http://publicanthropology.de “Breathability in Dhaka: The Politics of Respiration and Biosocial Justice in South Asia.” Nasima co-founded the working group AG Public Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association, DGSKA; and she is a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh (PHAB).

Email: nasima.selim@uni-bayreuth.de nasimaselim@gmail.com
Insta: @Nasima_Selim X:@NasimaSelim FB: @NasimaCreates Personal Website

PhD student of Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm and Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert. 

In her PhD project, Melina works on political subjectivities and categorization practices of belonging within return movements from Germany to Ghana. She asks how practices of differentiation create the “returnee” and considers how people question this position while shaping their own sense of belonging. Overall, she is interested in critical border and migration studies, citizenship and belonging, transnational inequalities, bureaucracy and the anthropology of the state, and phenomenological approaches in anthropology.

Ph.D. Student with Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm

Goethe-Institut, Munich

reginasarreiter@yahoo.de

Mihir Sharma is a researcher at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Bremen, Germany. His research interests include themes of political subjectivity, social movements, ambivalence, agency, and (anti-)racism. He is currently working on a monograph on antiracist practice in St. Louis, Missouri, and an edited volume on activism as political subjectivity. He teaches in the M.A. Transcultural Studies program in Bremen. He is the co-organizer of several culinary-political events in Berlin. 

Website: mihiress.com

X: @mihirzabaan

Bluesky: @mihiress.bsky.social

he/him

Armanc Yildiz is a postdoctoral researcher at 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He received his doctoral degree from the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, with a secondary degree in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His work stands at the intersections of the anthropology of the body, race, sexuality, spirituality, and science.

Eleanor Schaumann is a PhD candidate at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth. She is a Junior Fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). Eleanor recently submitted her PhD thesis “Priceless but Worthless: Values and Valuation Practices in Namibian Karakul Sheep Farming.” Her wider research interests include animal breeding science, agriculture, settler colonialism, and extinction studies.

Viola Castellano is a Senior Research Associate and DFG Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bayreuth. Her interests revolve around the anthropology of policies and institutions, migration management, border regime, welfare, activism and advocacy.

Lucilla Lepratti is a research assistant at the Department of Anthropology of Leipzig University and doctoral candidate researching anti-mafia movements in Palermo, Italy. Her ethnographic project deals with the ways in which people envision and enact social change and what role they ascribe to the state therein, from the perspective of young activists who join the antimafia movement in Sicily. Lucilla is interested in criminalization, social movements, the state and the monopoly of violence, borders and migration. She teaches on these and other topics and works on project of feminist publishing and pedagogy. She is also Erasmus+ coordinator at her department.

Samira Marty (she/ her) is a senior research associate at the Chair for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Samira is interested in anthropological interrogations of history, temporality, and politics, especially with regard to revolution, political violence, and gender in Central America and Western Europe.

Postdoctoral Researcher in social and cultural anthropology, working on post-agrarian rural spaces and the financialization of development

Ph.D. Student with Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm

Goethe-Institut, Munich

reginasarreiter@yahoo.de

Postdoctoral researcher in social and cultural anthropology, interested in the relation of claims to science’s universality and modes of planetary differentiations. Member of EASA, DGSKA, 4S, founding member of AOEN