| Since 10/2024 Project leader “Policing as categorization practice – reciprocal attributions in acts of control in public space” (DFG), ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 04/2024 – 10/2024 Substitute for the Professorship of Cultural Anthropology, ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 01/2024 – 03/2024 Project leader “Policing as categorization practice – reciprocal attributions in control actions in public space” (DFG), ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 12/2022 – 12/2023 Project leader sub-project “Praxis, Affekt, Mitgliedschaft rechtsextremistischer Internetkommunikation” of the BMBF joint project “MISRIK”, ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 04/2021 – 11/2022 Project leader “Polizei-Translationen. Multilingualism and the construction of cultural difference in everyday police work” (DFG), ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 10/2020 – 03/2021 Substitute for the Professorship of Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| 03/2019 – 09/2020 Project leader “Polizei-Translationen. Multilingualism and the construction of cultural difference in everyday police work” (DFG); ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 02/2014 – 02/2019 Academic staff member, Project “Africa’s Asian Options” (AFRASO), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| 2014 Doctorate in the subject of Cultural Anthropology (title of doctoral dissertation: Boundary Work: The Police in West Africa) |
| 08/2010 – 01/2014 Academic staff member, project “Boundary Work – Police in West Africa” (DFG), ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 11/2009 – 07/2010 Annual scholarship for doctoral candidates from the German Academic Exchange Service |
| 04/2009 – 09/2009 Academic staff member, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and African Studies, ifeas JGU Mainz |
| 2008 Magister degree (with distinction) |
| 2001 – 2008 Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and General and Comparative Literature at JGU Mainz |
Publications at a glance
| 2025-2028 Polizei-Transformationen – Erklärende Polizeiarbeit bei sprachlicher und kultureller Diversität (with Bernd Meyer and Nils Zurawski). Funding: DFG. |
| 2023-2027 Policing as a practice of categorization – reciprocal attributions in acts of control in public space. Funding: DFG. |
| 2021-2024 Praxis, Affekt, Mitgliedschaft rechtsextremistischer Internetkommunikation (with Konstanze N’Guessan). Sub-project of the joint project MISRIK. Funded by BMBF. |
| 2019-2022 Police translations – multilingualism and the construction of cultural difference in everyday police work. Funding: DFG. |
Dr. Jan Beek
Room 00-694
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-39 37295
E-Mail: beek(at)uni-mainz.de
Consultation hours: Tuesday, 4-5 p.m., by appointment by e-mail