Current Doctoral Projects
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Schütze
Mariana Almaraz Reyes
Promotionsprojekt: "Counter-archives of the future. Re-readings and re-activations of pre-Columbian pictographic archives 'by and from' the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca"
Altamerikanistik/Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Alberto Isai Baltazar Cruz
PhD Project: "Looking for Better Lives. Contested Desires, Hopes, and Futures in the Postglobal Undocumented Migration Borderscapes"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Franziska Barth
PhD Project: "Heimat(T)raum. Return to San Juan Texhuacan, Mexico"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Wendy Bazán Landeros
Promotionsprojekt: "Aspirations and future projections on rural development in Mexico. Rural Mayan and Mennonite youth facing the government proposal to eliminate glyphosate and GMOs in the context of the first 'leftist' government in Mexico"
Sara Bellezza
PhD Project: "Forms of (legal) activism against the criminalization of migration. A case study of agency and resistance around deportation practices between the US and Guatemala"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Pia Berghoff
PhD Project: "Temporalities of Transit. Perspectives of Central American Families on the Temporal Discrepancies in Transit through Mexico"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Paula Sol Hernández Hirsch
PhD Project: "From the market to the bin: "A comparative study of domestic processes of food-preservation and waste in Germany and Chile"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Eva Kirmes
Promotionsprojekt: "Aspirations for socio-ecological transformation – Indigenous women’s collective action for food sovereignty and anticipation of climate change"
Altamerikanistik/Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Mauricio Lara Martínez
PhD Project: "Homelessness, gender and agency"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Rubens Mascarenhas Neto
PhD Project: "Transnational cabarets: transposing borders of gender, sex, art and nation"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Alexys Montserrat Yong Solis
PhD Project: "The Acquisition of Social, Cultural and Economic Capitals of Children with Migration Background, an Ethnographic Study"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kummels
Karlotta Jule Bahnsen
PhD Project: "Bolivianische Textilarbeiterinnen in Buenos Aires. Aushandlungsprozesse um Mobilität und (Un)Gleichheit im transnationalen Raum der Mode"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Elizabeth Gallón Droste
PhD Project: "The Voices of the Atrato River: Navigating Futures through Rivers of Gold"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Michael Dürr
Lena Sell
PhD Project: "Contact and Exchange of Ethnobotanical Knowledge in the Bolivian Lowlands"
Cultural and Social Anthropology
Lena Weißmann
PhD Project: "El Promptuario del idioma Mixteco de Miguel de Villavicencio (1882 [1755]). Edición y estudio etnolinguístico de un manuscrito colonial sobre la lengua mixteca."
Cultural and Social Anthropology