| Current position |
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| Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology (W3) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| Academic training |
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| 2012 Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Faculty for Philosophy at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg |
| 2004 Doctorate at the Philipps University of Marburg |
| 1999 MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology (Völkerkunde), Philipps University Marburg |
| 1991-1999 Master’s degree: Cultural and Social Anthropology (major), Educational Science, Religious Education and Philosophy (minor subjects) at the universities of Münster, Westphalia and Marburg |
| Academic positions |
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| Since 3/2020 University professorship (W3) for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 7/2016-2/2020 Heisenberg Professorship, Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| 3/2015-5/2016 Heisenberg Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG), affiliated with the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| 2004-2011 Research assistant (C1) at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg |
| Fellowships, scholarships and prizes |
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| 3/2025 Visiting Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Department of Social Anthropology |
| 10/2024 Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS), Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), funded by the ‘Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior’ (CAPES) |
| 8-10/2016 Visiting Scholar at the New School for Social Research, New York City |
| 2/2014 Fellow at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies |
| 2013-2014 Fellow at the Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 1288: “Freunde, Gönner, Getreue: Praxis und Semantik von Freundschaft und Patronage in historischer, anthropologischer und kulturvergleichender Perspektive”, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
| 3-4/2014 Visiting researcher at the Centro de Estudos de Migrações Internacionais (CEMI) – UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil |
| 11/2013 Receipt of the Albert-Bürklin Prize, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg |
| 9/2012 Visiting researcher at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2011-2012 Fellow at the Käthe-Hamburger co-worker program “Work and Life Course in Global Historical Perspective” (re:work), Humboldt University Berlin |
| 2006-2007 Post-doc fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for field research in Cape Verde |
| 2002-2003 Fellow at the Centre d’Etudes Ethniques (CEETUM), University of Montréal |
| 2001-2004 Doctoral scholarship from the state of Hesse |
| 7-10/2000 Postgraduate scholarship for participation in the International Women’s University (IFU), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| Since 2024 Member of the Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus – “Resiliencies: Comparing and Integrating Methodologies, Methods, Narratives, and Theories” (RECOMENT) – TransRegio Mainz/Trier |
| 2022 – 2025 Migration and Im/Mobility in the Global South during a Pandemic (scientific network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)), with A. Mißbach, University of Bielefeld |
| 2022 – 2025 The Management of Loss: Politics of Life and Death in Minas Gerais (Brazil) (grant, German Research Foundation (DFG)), with T. Mentrup |
| 2021 – 2025 Sorting with care. Human differentiation in contact zones of support in Brazil and Portugal. Subproject of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 1482 “Human Differentiation“, with E. Reichl and E. Hernández. |
| 2018 – 2022 African trajectories across Central America: Dynamics of displacements, transitory emplacements, and ambivalent migration nodes (grant German Research Foundation (DFG)), with N. Winters, Y. Guevara, E. Reichl and P. Delgado |
| 2015 – 2020 Access of migrants to support and care in humanitarian and activist contexts in Brazil (German Research Foundation (DFG), Heisenberg Program) |
| 2006 – 2011 Negotiations of family support. The Moral Dimension of Care in Transnational Cape Verdean Fields (German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)). |
| 2001 – 2004 Spirits in the Diaspora. Haitian discourses on gender, youth and power in Montréal, Canada (doctoral scholarship from the State of Hesse) |
Janis Geschke: “Deportation Work. Insights into bordering processes, decision making and moral implications in German deportation bureaucracies”
Elena Hernández: “Prekarisiertes Wohnen und Humandifferenzierung in Lissabons Kontaktzonen der Unterstützung”
Theresa Mentrup: “The Management of Loss: Politics of Life and Death in Minas Gerais”
Elena Maria Reichl: “Informelle Unterstützungspraktiken zwischen Solidarität, Sortierung und Transformation in Brasilien”
Prof. Dr. Heike Drotbohm
Room 01-665
Forum universitatis 6
55099 Mainz
Tel.: 06131-39 20796
E-Mail: drotbohm@uni-mainz.de
Office hours after appointment via e-mail