Vita

Prof. Dr. Karin Polit

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

2015

Venia Legendi Award in Anthropology, University of Heidelberg

since 2014

Margarete von Wrangell Fellow at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

since 2013

Member of the international network "Advances in Research on Globally Accessible Medicine (AROGYAM) Heidelberg - Edinburgh, Delhi-Trivandrum

2012-2013

Fellow Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi

since summer term 2012

Acquisition of the Baden-Württemberg Certificate for University Didactics

2007-2008

Member of the European Research Network "Ritual, Media, and Conflict", Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the German Research Foundation (DFG)

2003-2006

Doctoral thesis Sout Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, "Ethnographic Reflections on Practices of Gender and Agency among Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas". Disputation and Rigorosum on 23 June 2006, Degree: Summa Cum Laude

2001

Magister Artium of Anthropology

1998

B.A. Anthropology at James Cook University, North Queensland, Australia

EMPLOYMENT

Since 10/2024
Theater Pedagogy, TPZ Reutlingen, BW.

Since 04/2018
full professor and head of department at the Department of Social- and Cultural Anthropology, Asia Orient Institute, Tübingen University

09/2014-03/2018
Margarete von Wrangell Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

10 /2016-03/2017
guest professor at the Institute of Anthropology Tübingen University

09-11/2015  
guest professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (JNU, Delhi)

10/2014 – 03/2015       
guest professor at the Institute of Ethnology, Münster University

03/2014 – 08/2014    
guest professor for the chair of Anthropology, South Asia Institute 

07/2013-02/2014          
Lecturer at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

03/ 2005 – 06/2013   
Researcher and member of the executive committee in the collaborative research centre ritual dynamics at the University of  Heidelberg. Projects 1: Ritual spectacles in Garhwal; rituals as regional cultural heritage. 2. Examining ritual processes, distinction and modes of modernity: a study among young Indians from semi-urban and rural areas in North India. 

02/ 2012 – 01/2013      
Fellow Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, JNU, New Delhi

10/ 2007 - 04/2018               
Member Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies University of Heidelberg

Since 06/ 2006               
authorized to examine and supervise in their thesis M.A and B.A. students for the Institute of Ethnology and the Department of Anthropology, SAI, University of Heidelberg.

02/’02 -03/2005           
PhD student and Guest lecturer at the HNB Garhwal University, Srinagar Garhwal, India.

04/ 2005-07/2012      
elected member of the executive committee in the collaborative research centre ritual dynamics at the University of  Heidelberg.

04/ 2004 – 03/2006   
Lecturer and PhD student at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg project: Gender and Dalit Culture in the Himalayas.

01/2002 – 03/2004    
Researcher at the Department for Ethnology at the South Asia Institute. Project: The Healing cult of Bhairav in the Central Himalayas.

1998 – 2002           
Research Assistant, Tropical Hygiene Institute, University of Heidelberg.