Social and Cultural Anthropology

Vita

Dr. Eva Ambos
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION

05/2017 – 05/2018
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, Niederlande

10/2015
PhD Viva (Grade: summa cum laude), Cultural Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

04/2013 – 06/2013
Visiting Lecturer, University of Chicago, USA (Heidelberg Prize Lectureship)

02/2013 – 03/2013
Visiting PhD Student, University of Edinburgh, UK

01/2009 – 08/2011
PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, University of Heidelberg, Germany

2008
Magister (MA), Cultural Anthropology and Modern European History, University of Heidelberg, Germany

EMPLOYMENT

since 06/2018
Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany

09/2018-12/2020
Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

11/2015 – 09/2016
Post-Doctoral Researcher and Co-Project Leader, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, University of Heidelberg, Germany

06/2015 – 10/2015
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’, University of Heidelberg, Germany

10/2012 – 03/2014
Co-Coordinatorand Lecturer, Master Program ‘Health and Society in South Asia’, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

09/2011 – 10/2012
Coordinator and Lecturer, Master Program ‘Health and Society in South Asia’, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

03/2008 – 12/2008
Research Assistant, Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’& SFB Ritual Dynamics, University of Heidelberg, Germany

05/2005 – 02/2009
Tutor, Institute of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, Germany

TEACHING (selection)

06/2018 – now, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen

MA-level (in English)

  •  The Anthropology of Emotions
  •  The Anthropology of Death
  •  History of Anthropological Theory

BA-level (in German)

  • Forschungsmethodik ("Research Methods")
  • COVID-19 aus einer ethnologischen Perspektive – Eine Einführung in medizinethnologische Ansätze ("COVID-19 from an Anthropological Perspective - An Introduction to Medical Anthropological Approaches")

Winter 2011/12, Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg

  • Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Concepts (Core module short course)

04/2010 – 02/2014, Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

BA level

  • Scrutinizing the Nature/Culture Dichotomy – Approaches in Social Anthropology and Science Studies

(in collaboration with Sandra Bärnreuther)

  • Vom ‚Devil Dance’ zum Kulturerbe: Ritual und Performanz am Beispiel Sri Lankas („From ‚Devil Dance’ to Cultural Heritage: Ritual and Performance in Sri Lanka“)
  • Sri Lanka im Kontext von Globalisierung („Sri Lanka in the Context of Globalization“)

(in collaboration with Pia Hollenbach, Geography, University of Zürich)

MA level

  • Introduction to Medical Anthropology
  • Healing Systems of South Asia
  • Approaching Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork and Methodology
  • Medical Anthropology of South Asia in the Context of Modernity, Globalization and Transculturality