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Andre
Gingrich, project director
Full Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
University of Vienna
Full Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wittgenstein Award 2000 (Austrian Science Fund)
Contact: andre.gingrich@univie.ac.at;
andre.gingrich@oeaw.ac.at
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| 2001 |
Full Member, Austrian Academy
of Sciences |
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| 2001- |
Faculty member, Gender
Kolleg "Ruptures--Gender--Society", University of Vienna |
| 1998- |
Member and Deputy director
(1999-), Commission for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 1998- |
Corresponding Member, Austrian
Academy of Sciences |
| 1998- |
Full Professor, Department
of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
| 1994-95 |
Weatherhead
Resident Scholar, School of American Research, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1992-95 |
Editorial
Board and Book Review Editor for Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale |
| 1990 |
Venia docendi, University of
Vienna |
| 1979 |
Ph.D., University of Vienna |
Field researches: Northern Yemen (15 months); Saudi Arabia (6 months); Syria
(6 months); Sudan (3 months); Turkey and Armenia (3 months); Tibet (1 month) |
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Current research
focus: Anthropological comparison; time and space conceptualizations; gender
studies; nationalism; globalization; history of anthropological theories
Major research projects: |
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2001- |
Wittgenstein
Award 2000 research program "Local Identities and Wider Influences":
director (funding: Austrian Science Fund) |
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1996- |
"The Mediterranean Part in
European Identities": Austrian co-organiser, COMENIUS project of the EU's
Council for Education in co-operation with Combfor, Paris (general co-ordinator)
(funding: EU Council of Ministers) |
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1992- |
"Tibetan Mountain Cults and
Local Societies": director, cooperation project between the Austrian Academy
of Sciences, the CNRS, Paris, and the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences
(funding: Austrian Science Fund) |
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1979-83,
1994-98 |
"Ethnographic
Atlas of Saudi-Arabia's Southwestern Provinces": researcher, bilateral project
between the Universities of Riyadh and Vienna (funding: Austrian Science
Fund; King Saud University, Riyadh) |
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Full CV and list of publications
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Wolfgang
Kraus, project administrator and researcher
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
of Vienna
Contact: wolfgang.kraus@univie.ac.at
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| 2001 |
Venia docendi, University of
Vienna |
| 1999-01 |
Assistant
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of
Vienna |
| 1996-01 |
Research
team member, European research programme "Individual
and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World" (European
Science Foundation) |
| 1994-97 |
Research
Scholar, Austrian Programme for Advanced Research and Technology (Austrian
Academy of Sciences) |
| 1989 |
Ph.D., University of Vienna |
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Field researches: Central High Atlas, Morocco (1983-85, 1995-2002, 2 years
total)
Current research focus: Tribal identity and organization in the Middle East
and North Africa; local historical knowledge; Moroccan Berbers; limited
comparison; anthropological theory; visual anthropology
Homepage and list of publications
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Gebhard
Fartacek, researcher
Researcher, Wittgenstein
Award 2000 research program
Chercheur associé at the Institut Français d'Etudes Arabes
de Damas (IFEAD), Damascus
Ph.D. student, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
of Vienna
Contact: gebhard.fartacek@oeaw.ac.at
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| 2001- |
Reseacher and public relations,
Wittgenstein Award 2000 research program "Local Identities and Wider
Influences" |
| 2000 |
Award of the Syrian Studies
Association for the best M.A. thesis written on Syria during the academic
year 1999-2000, Orlando, FL |
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1999 |
M.A., Department of Social
and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
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Field researches: Turkey and Northern Iraq (1993, 1 month); Syria (1996-2002,
18 months); Lebanon (2000, 1 month); Jordanien (2000, 1 month)
Current research focus: Indigenous epistemological models, cosmologies,
local conceptions of time and space; regional field work on daily life and
religion in Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon
Full CV and list of publications
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Claudia
Kickinger, researcher
Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
of Vienna
Chercheur associé at the Institut Français d'Etudes Arabes
de Damas (IFEAD), Damascus
Contact: claudia.kickinger@univie.ac.at
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| 2001 |
Researcher, research project
"Religion and Muslim Women's Way of Living in Vienna" (funding:
Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
| 2000- |
Lecturer, Oriental Academy
of the Austrian Association for the Middle East (Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft
Hammer-Purgstall) |
| 1996-01 |
Research team member, European
research programme "Individual
and Society in the Mediterranean Muslim World" (European
Science Foundation) |
| 1996- |
Lecturer,
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
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1996 |
Researcher, research project
"Muslims in Vienna", directed by Walter Dostal (funding: Austrian
Academy of Sciences) |
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1995-96 |
Researcher, research project
"Women and Work in the Urban History of the Middle East" (funding: University
of Vienna) |
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1994-95 |
University Assistant, Department
of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna (deputy for an
absent leave collegue) |
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1994 |
Ph.D., University of Vienna |
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1987 |
Researcher, "Ethnographic Atlas
of Saudi-Arabia's Southwestern Provinces", King Saud University, Riyadh,
and University of Vienna |
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1984-85 |
Arabic
Studies scholarship, Cairo University |
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Field researches: Cairo (1984-85, 9 months), Syria (2001-02, 7 months)
Current research focus: Nomadism in transition; individual and society in
the Middle East; customary law in Muslim societies, anthropology of law;
gender; urban anthropology
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Gudrun
Katharina Kroner, researcher
Researcher, Wittgenstein
Award 2000 research program
Research scholar, DOC (Ph.D.) programme, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ph.D. student, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University
of Vienna
Research assistant, American University in Cairo
Contact: gudrun_kroner@yahoo.com
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2001- |
Researcher, Wittgenstein Award
2000 research program "Local Identities and Wider Influences" |
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2000-01 |
Participation
in the "Legal assistance group", Forced Migration and Refugee
Studies Programme, American University in Cairo |
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2000 |
M.A., Department of Social
and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna |
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Field researches: Nigeria (1992, 6 weeks); Zanzibar, Tanzania (1995, 2 months);
Somali refugees in Austria (1996-99, 9 months); Somali refugees in Somalia,
Somaliland, Kenya and Tanzania (1997-98, 6 months); Somali refugees in Ethiopia
(2000, 2 months), Somali refugees in Cairo (2000-02, 16 months), Palestinian
refugees in Gaza (2002, 6 weeks)
Current research focus: Refugees and migrants; identity constructions; transnationalism;
refugee biographies
Full CV and list of publications
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