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 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.