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Prof Dr. Sabine Zinn-Thomas

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Unscheduled professorship at the University of Freiburg

Head of the Landesstelle für Volkskunde Stuttgart / Landesmuseum Württemberg

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Research interests

  • Mobility (Social / Spatial / Virtual)
  • Regional Ethnography
  • Ethnographic research methods
  • Identity / ethnicity (strangeness)
  • Body (health/illness, sexuality, death)
  • Material culture

 

Biographical:

  • Since September 2017 Head of the Landesstelle für Volkskunde Stuttgart / Landesmuseum Württemberg
  • 2010-2015 Representation of the Chair of European Ethnology at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University of Freiburg
  • 2009 Habilitation "Strangers on site. Self-image and regional identity in integration processes. A study in the Hunsrück. Bielefeld 2010.
  • 2007-2008 visiting lectures at the University of Basel and the Tongji University Shanghai (DAAD guest lecturer, research project "Being German in Shanghai - the everyday life of German company senders and their families abroad").
  • Since 1998 research associate and since 2000-2006 university assistant at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology of the University of Freiburg.
  • 1997 PhD at the University of Frankfurt / Main, doctoral thesis: Menstruation and Monthly Hygiene. To deal with a physical process. Münster / New York 1997 (doctoral scholarship Deutsches-Hygiene-Museum Dresden).
  • Studies of KA / EE, German and Art History in Frankfurt / Main.

 

Memberships:

  • German Society for Folklore, "Commission for German and Eastern European Folklore", Network "Health and Culture"
  • Hessian Association for Folklore e.V.
  • Museum Association Baden-Württemberg
  • Society for European Ethnology in Freiburg / Brsg. (2nd chairman)

 

Monographs:

  • Zinn-Thomas, Sabine: strangers on site. Self-image and regional identity in integration processes. A study in the Hunsrück. Bielefeld 2010.
  • Zinn-Thomas, Sabine: Menstruation and Monthly Hygiene. To deal with a physical process. Münster 1997.

 

Editorship:

 

Essays (selection):

  • Different. Different? Integration and exclusion in the countryside.Museum letter. News from museums and collections in Baden-Württemberg 02.2017. S.1-3.
  • Doing generation? Aspects of migration, generation, and health using the example of Russian-German resettlers. In: Sarah Scholl-Schneider and Moritz Kropp (ed.): Migration and Generation in Eastern Europe. Folklore-ethnological perspectives, Münster 2017. (in preparation)
  • Strangeness in the village. In: Werner Nell, Marc Weiland (Hrsg.): Village. An interdisciplinary manual, Stuttgart 2017. (in preparation)
  • Homesick at home? Materialized home and the stranger's secret. In: Identity Factory reloaded. Museums as resonant spaces of cultural diversity and pluralistic lifestyles. Proceedings of the DGV-commission "Sachkulturforschung und Museum". Karlsruhe 2017 (in preparation)
  • Intolerant body? Dealing with food intolerance in the context of distinction and social distancing. In: Christina Niem, Thomas Schneider, Mirko Uhlig (ed.): Experiencing, naming, understanding. Take a close look at everyday life. Festschrift for Michael Simon's 60th birthday, Münster 2016. p. 459-467.
  • The power of the field: ways of accessing and dealing with status differences in the research process. In: Walter Leimgruber, Christine Bischoff, Karoline Oehme (ed.): Empirical Work in Cultural Anthropology - A Study Book, Bern 2014. pp. 86-100.
  • "Glaubi come home!" - Representations of "Celticity" between regional identity formation and tourism marketing. In: Raimund Karl, Jutta Leskovar, Stefan Moser (ed.): The invented Celts - mythology of a term and its use in archeology, tourism and esotericism. Interpreted Iron Times. 4. Linz Iron Age talks on interpretive Iron Age archeology. Studies on the Cultural History of Upper Austria, Linz 2012. pp. 271-281.
  • Multi-Location? German elite migrants in Shanghai and Sao Paulo (together with Florian von Dobeneck). In: Reinhard Johler u.a. (Ed.): Mobility - Europe in Motion as a Challenge of Cultural Research, Münster 2011. p. 376-383.

 

Lectures (selection)

  • "Our neighbors from America" ​​?! Lecture in Ramstein-Miesenbach on November 21, 2016 at the Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V
  •  My home, your home, our home. Museum as an identity-negotiating place. Keynote speech at the conference of the Deutscher Museumsbundes "The knot in the net. Museums as anchor points in the region "in Erfurt on May 10, 2016.
  • "First the Americans came to protect us, and now the Russians are here". About living with Russian-German resettlers in Hunsrück since the 1990s. Lecture at the Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Northeastern Europe e.V. (IKGN) in Lüneburg on April 28, 2016 as part of the lecture series "Migration-Flight-Exile".
  • Health concepts, health action and health status of Russian-German (late) resettlers. Migration section, focus on health in various topics. Workshop together with Prof. Dr. med. Magdalena Stülb (University of Koblenz) at the Public Health Congress "Poverty and Health" from 17.-18. March 2016 at the Technical University Berlin.
  • Migration - Generation - Health. Intergenerational ideas and ways of dealing with health and illness in ethnic Germans resettlers. Meeting Migration and Generation in Eastern Europe. Folklore-ethnological perspectives. 5-7th November 2015 in Mainz.

 

Press:

  1. Menstruation. The fight against an ancient taboo (Deutschlandradio Kultur | January 2017)