Assoc. Prof. Anna Lisa Ahlers
Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages
Political anthropology, urban anthropology, anthropology of migration, ethnolinguistics, creole studies, cognitive anthropology, ethnosociology
Thematic interests: Integration and conflict, ethnic and cultural diversity, cultural contact, identity, migration/remigration, creoleness and creolisation, postcolonial societies, nationalism, ethnicity, transnationalism, indigenisation, ethnogenesis, diaspora, expatriate communities, urban anthropology, gender
Regional interests: West Africa, Indonesia, Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands), Caribbean, maritime societies (Atlantic and Indian Ocean)
Extraordinary professorship, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Minerva professorship (W2), special programme for the advancement of outstanding female scientists in the Max Planck Society
Lise Meitner Habilitation (postdoctoral) fellowship from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Nominated for the Bennigsen Prize (highest scientific award of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG), graduate school "Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity", University of Münster
Doctoral fellowship from the DFG, graduate school "Intercultural Relations in Africa", University of Bayreuth
Scholarship, International Office of the University of Hamburg to study at the University of California, Irvine, USA (UCI)
English, French, German, Indonesian
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. London & New York: Berghahn (in print)
Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft. Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta. Frankfurt. & New York: Campus, 2007
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (co-edited with W. Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2010
Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency (editor). Bielefeld & Somerset: Transcript & Transaction Publishers, 2005
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective (co-edited with Christoph Kohl). Berghahn, New York (submitted for review)
Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11-12, 2012: 16-23.
Contemporary Creoleness, or: The World in Pidginization? Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 6, December 2010: 731-759.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity, in: Knörr, J. & W. Trajano Filho (eds.) (2010: 205-228.) (s.o.)
Creolization and Nation-Building in Indonesia, in: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) (2009) The Creolization Reader. Studies in mixed identities and cultures. London: Routledge: 353-363.
Free the Dragon versus Becoming Betawi. Chinese Identity in Contemporary Jakarta, Asian Ethnicity 10 (1), 2009: 71-90.
Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Position: Head of Research Group)
Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (board member, supervision of doctoral students)
Travelling Models in Conflict Management, Position: Country Partner for Sierra Leone and Liberia; my project: Models of Post-War Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Integration and Conflict across Atlantic and Indian Ocean Societies. Joint research project of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) and the Institute for Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, Portugal; my project: Comparative studies on the role of religion in ethnic differentiation among creole groups (Indonesia, Sierra Leone and Gambia)
Ethnicity, Migration, and Citizenship (Global Research Institute, New York University, Berlin)
"Bewilderment as an Opportunity for Learning", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (proposal submitter/Principal Investigator)
Creole Social and Cultural Studies (director: Prof. Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, GB); my project: Creole identities in postcolonial societies
Chair of the section "Migration, multiculturality and identity" and member of the extended executive committee of the German Anthropological Association (DGV) (1995 – 2003)
Member of the executive committee of the German Anthropological Association (DGV) (2003 – 2007)
Chair of the Project Development Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2005 – 2007)
Coordinator for collaborative projects between the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and a) the Institute for Social Sciences (ICS) Lisbon, Portugal, b) The University of Brasilia, Brazil, c) Indiana University Bloomington (IUB), US, d) Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)
African Studies Association (ASA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
German Anthropological Association (DGV)
Social Sciences History Association (SSHA)
Working Group on Childhood and Migration, Rutgers State University of New Jersey
Anthropology of Children and Youth Network, University of Amsterdam
Halle Studies in Integration and Conflict (Berghahn)
Representative in the Max Planck Society for the researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (since 2012)
Max Planck LeadNet, Max Planck Society (since 2008)
Mentor, Max Planck Society (mentoring women scientists programme) (since 2009)
Member of the advisory body on migration policy to the (federal) SPD party, Berlin (2000 – 2003)
Representative for the academic staff, Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Münster, Germany (1998 – 1999)
Research group "Internationalising research", Office of the Rector, University of Münster (1997 – 1999)
Member of various bodies at the European Science Foundation (ESF)
German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV)
M.A. 1989, on: Between the Golden Ghetto and Integration.
Ethnological autobiography and research on German and Swiss children and youth growing up in the Third World, using Ghana as a reference, and their integration afterwards into Europe. Frankfurt & New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990.
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Languages, Social and behavioural sciences, Modern Chinese Studies / Sinology; Political Science; Political Sociology
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Translation studies, History of education, History of classical philology
Languages, Neuro-linguistics
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Hispanic Literature