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Anita Prsa

Anita Prsa

Anita Prsa

PostDoC

SHSS-HSG
Unterer Graben 21

9000 St. Gallen
Publications

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Main Focuses

Anthropology and Sociology of Work

Medical Anthroplogy

Feminist Political Economy

Welfare State

Fields of research

Anthropology and Sociology of Work

Medical Anthropology

Feminist Political Economy

Welfare State

Education

2026  Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education, Yehuda Elkana Center, Central European University

2025  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Comparative Gender Studies, Central European University

2019  Master (MA) in Arts and Culture (Research), Utrecht University

2015  Master (MA) in Graphic arts, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb

Professional Career

2026 – 2029 Associate Researcher, School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen

2025 – 2026 Associate Researcher, The Center for Interdisciplinary Aging and Care Research (CIRAC), University of Graz

2024 – 2025 Research Fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, AT

Teaching Activities

2022 - 2023  Teaching Assistent for ´Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnographic Approaches (M), (Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Elissa Helms), Department of Gender Studies, Central European University

2018 Tutoring at NOISE summer school ‘Social and Political Suffocations’ (NOISE =
Network Of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies in Europe), Utrecht University

Projects

2026 – 2029  The Global hospital: Reproducing healthcare through entanglements of labor, mobility and knowledge in Switzerland and Austria (Researcher for Subproject: "Dis/entangling routes of labor: Tracing diasporic and recruitment pathways of hospital workers", January 2026-December 2029, WEAVE-SNSF/FWF Project, cooperation with FH Bern and University of Vienna)

2025 – 2026  Project Assistant for Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe: Political, Social, and Cultural Narratives of Demographic Change (February 2022- January 2026). VolkswagenStiftung. Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), cooperation with University of Graz, Sofia University, and Hungarian Demographic Research Institute

 

Affiliations
  • EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists)
Awards

2024  Award for the advanced doctoral students, Central European University

2020  Winner of the 2020 Hélène Phoa Gender Studies Research Thesis Prize, Utrecht University

2019  Graduated from MA in Arts and Culture (Research) with the distinction of Cum Laude, Utrecht University

2015  Special award for academic achievements during the studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb

Talks

Conferences: 

2024  21st Annual Historical Materialism Conference. Presenting the paper ‘Value, time, and money in palliative care volunteering.’ SOAS, Russell Square, Central London, UK

2024  Border Crossings: Charity and Voluntarism in Britain’s Mixed Economy of Health Care Since 1948. Presenting the paper ‘How to be human in the inhuman world? Obtaining humanity through palliative care volunteering’. British Medical Association, London, UK

2024  4th Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA). Presenting the paper ‘Self-help through helping others. Developing (spiritual) human capital in palliative care volunteering’. University of Vienna, AT

2024  International Labour Process Conference. Presenting the paper ‘The ‘priceless’ value of accompanying the dying: Unpaid labour, voluntarism, and palliative care. Göttingen, DE

2023  In the Frictions: Fragments of Care, Health, and Wellbeing in the Balkans. Presenting the paper ‘Spirituality in the end-of-life care. A comparative study of volunteer palliative care work in Austria and Croatia’. University of Zadar, Zadar, CRO

2019  16th Annual Historical Materialism Conference. Presenting the paper ‘Micro politics of care and re/organisation of social reproduction in the case of migrant eldercare work.’ SOAS, Russell Square, Central London, UK

2019  European Geographies of Sexualities conference (EGSC). Presenting the paper ‘From Bodies to Work to Social Reproduction. Revisiting daily routines and intimacy in migrant eldercare work.’ Charles University, Faculty of Science, Prague, CZ

Invited Talks:

2021  Giving a lecture ‘Social reproduction, sociology of work, and migrant care work.’
Subversive festival, Zagreb, CRO

2020 Giving a lecture within an MA course ‘Gender and Social Inclusion.’ Utrecht
University, NL

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