PhD Students
Awarded Degrees (as first supervisor):
Pallabi Roy: “'You drowned me in tears, where did you go?' An Ethnographic Study of Reproductive Loss and Grief in Middle-Class Kolkata, India".
Michael David: “Transnational Re-creation: A Study on the Enculturation of Second-generation Sri Lankan Tamils in Germany“.
Heribert Beckmann: „You’ll only Have Rice in Your Hands, if You Have Your Feet in the Mud!’ Changes in the Enactment of Rice, Body, Environment, and Social Inequality in a Rice-Cultivating Village in Tamil Nadu, India”.
Max Priester-Lasch: „Eine Reise nach Indien. Übersetzungen eines Modells“.
Stefanie Stocker: „From ‚Friend’ to ‚Kin’? Solidarity among Tamil Graduates in educational, domestic and marriage contexts“.
Current Dissertation Projects:
Jahangir Khan, M.A.: "Dealing with OCD in Pakistan".
Halima Haque, M.A.: "Homemaking among Bangladeshis in Germany".
Thomas Krippner, M.A.: "Academic Timelines - Changing Student Identities in Indian Higher Education".
Judith Riepe, M.A.: „Zwischen universellen Menschenrechten und nationaler Grenzpolitik: ‚Asyl‘ aus ethnologischer Perspektive“.
Justus Weiss, M.A.: "Heilpflanzen als Ressource in Tamil Nadu, Indien".
Thambi Thangavel, M.A.: "Health as an Individual and Collective Ressource, Tamil Nadu, India".
Emmanuel Ngang, M.A.: "Social Media and Health Seeking Behaviour in Cameroon".
Franca Webel, M.A.: "Gesundheit als Ressource während und nach COVID-19, Deutschland".
Samantha Strohmenger, M.A.: "Becoming Black as an Identity-forming Moment in the Accommodation of Black Asylum Seekers".
Julia Faulhaber, M.A.: "Rude Boys, Bad Man, Baller. A Social Negotiation of Values, Practices, Expectations, and the Future in Kingston, Jamaica" (Working Title).
Lana Balorda, M.A.: " Commemorative Practices in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina".
Judith Zweck, M.A.: "Blank Spaces in the Museum: Purchases and Sales of Museum Holdings to the Art Trade in the Period from 1945 to 1973 at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart". (Zweitbetreuung)
Katharina Nowak, M.A.: "The Decolonial Knowledge Production of Ethnographic Collections: Rethinking Museums".
Sophie Eckhardt, M.A.: „Exhibition-making in the 21st century. A process-accompanying research of an exhibition of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart“.
Lisa Priester-Lasch, M.A.: "Die 'heilige' Speise des Jagganath Tempels in Orissa" (Working Title).
