Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm,
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Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 18.02.2016
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Arts and humanities
  • Social sciences, journalism and information


Field

Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences



Area of specialisation

Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology



Research interests

  • migration and transnationalism, kinship and care, Afro-atlantic societies, children and youth, law and migration bureaucracies



Distinctions and Awards

  • 11.2013: "Albert-Bürklin Preis", University of Freiburg



Languages

English, French, German, Portuguese



Doctorate

  • 2004: Spirits in the Diaspora. Haitian discourses on gender, youth, and power in Montreal, Canada.


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2012: Negotiating relatedness and belgonging in transnational Cape Verdean families




Short CV/Education and training

  •  
    Studies of Social and Cultural Anthropology (major), Religious Sciences, Philosophy and Education (minors) in Muenster / Westf. and Marburg.

Selected publications

  • 2015 (co-edited with Erdmute Alber): Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

  • 2015 (co-edited with Inês Hasselberg): Deportation, Anxiety, Justice: new ethnographic perspectives. Special Issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), Vol. 41 (4).

  • 2014 (co-edited with Boris Nieswand): Kultur, Gesellschaft, Migration. Die reflexive Wende in der Migrationsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

  • 2011 (co-edited with Ingrid Kummels): Afroatlantische Allianzen. Thematic issue of Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. Vol. 136 (2). Berlin: Reimer.



Complete list of publications

Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Member of the editing board of the "Zeitschrift für Ethnologie"

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