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List of people

  • Veronica Barassi: media anthropology, digital anthropology, data and artificial intelligence; children, youth and family studies; big tech and global relations; civil society and human rights.
  • Paula Bialski: Digital cultures, software and hacker studies, science and technology studies, corporate work cultures, ethnography of transport and mobility 
  • Matías Dewey: political and economic sociology, illegal markets and marketplaces, garment industry, drug dealing and e-waste value chains. Most recent book: Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace (University of Texas Press). 
  • Marta Domínguez Díaz: North Africa and Western Europe; Anthropology of Islam; Modern Sufism, Transnational Islamic groups, Gender in Islam, Islam in Europe, Religion in Borderlands; Ritual Studies, Minority groups in North Africa, Maghrebi Andalusians.
  • Florian Elliker: racial and ethnic relations; minorities; elite education; elite spaces; reinventive institutions; drugs/consciousness-altering substances; cannabis and psychedelics; populism; conservatism; South Africa and Europe; sociology of knowledge; cultural sociology; discourse analysis; discourse ethnography; Unexplored Realities.
  • Thomas Grisaffi: Peru and Bolivia; political and economic anthropology, coca and cocaine production and its global commodity chain, agricultural unions, alternative development, and democracy. 
  • Rita Kesselring: Southern Africa, South Africa, Zambia; Switzerland; global inequalities, reparations, trauma, the body; mining, urban development, corporate governance, global supply chains; legal anthropology, urban anthropology, political anthropology; urban studies; methodology
  • Sandra King-Savic: Southeastern and Central Europe, ethnography and migration, citizenship / ‘integration’ and belonging, legal ethnography, transnational and informal practices, diaspora.
  • Insa Koch: Britain and Europe; political and legal anthropology; political economy; social inequalities; criminal justice; welfare; modern slavery; Empire; post-colonialism; populism; democratic crisis; advocacy and public anthropology 
  • Niklaus Reichle: racial and ethnic relations; minorities; elite reproduction & education; elite spaces; architectural ethnography, reinventive institutions; drugs/consciousness-altering substances; cannabis and psychedelics; South Africa and Europe; sociology of knowledge; cultural sociology; Unexplored Realities
  • Jelena Tosic: Europe (focus: Central and Southeastern Europe); Anthropology of (Forced) Migration and Borders; Transculturality; Transnationalism; Inequality; Deservingness; Morality; Citizenship; Anthropology of Education; Historical Anthropology; Post-Conflict Societies; Post-Socialism; Project Leader SNSF-Project “Moralisations of Inequality” and Transcultural Studies.

To the Chairs that encompass Anthropology

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