Dr. Felix Girke
Postbox 213
Phone: +49 7531 88 5597
Room Y 111
E-Mail: felix.girke@uni-konstanz.de
Twitter: @felixgirke
uni-konstanz.academia.edu/FelixGirke
Publication list
Thematic work priorities
Political anthropology; conflict and integration; rhetoric culture theory; identity and ethnicity; cultural change; cultural heritage; tourism; urban anthropology
Regional expertise
Southern Ethiopia ( in particular South Omo Region, Kara) and Myanmar (Yangon)
Academic curriculum vitae
1996-2001 | Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Social/Cultural Anthropology, with Cultural Geography and Philosophy ) and at the University of Kent at Canterbury |
Dec. 2001 | Magister Artium. Title: „Die theoretischen Entwicklungen im Werk von F.G. Bailey. Handlung, Politik und Rhetorik“. Mentor: Prof. Ivo Strecker |
2002-2005 | Lecturer and Researcher. Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (IfEAs), University of Mainz |
2005-2008 | Doctoral candidate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale (Dept. 1 „Integration und Conflict“) |
2008-2009 | Teaching assignments at the Faculty for Sociology, University of Bielefeld and at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg |
May 2009 | Dr. Phil (defense). Title of dissertation: „The ädamo of the Kara. Rhetoric in social relations on the Lower Omo“. Examiners: Prof. Günther Schlee, Prof. Richard Rottenburg |
2009-2010 | Lecturer and Researcher in the working group social anthropology (Prof. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka), Faculty for Sociology, University of Bielefeld |
2010-2015
| Research coordinator at the Center for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS), MLU Halle-Wittenberg Parental leave: August 2011 and May-July 2012 (4 months) |
2015-2016 | Research Fellow at the Center of Excellence 16, "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration", University of Konstanz |
Since 01/07/2016 | DFG-Research project „Ringen ums Erbe. Heritage Regimes und Rhetorik in Myanmar“ |