Research

The focus of teaching and research in cultural anthropology and European ethnology in Freiburg is on the following topics: everyday culture, the cultural transformation of basic needs (eg living, eating, dressing), phases of life, religiosity, festivals and rites, popular culture, media, migration and mobility and dealing with cultural diversity, city and space, work and leisure, business and politics, material culture, museum, body / health, minorities, marginalized groups, subcultures

 Third party funded research projects

• Prof. Dr. Anna Lipphardt et al. (Lead): How to Not Be a Stuffed Animal | Volkswagen Foundation
• Nikola Nölle M.A. and Prof. dr. Markus Tauschek (direction): Doing Popular Culture | The research project
• Dr. Fatma Sagir: "Having an affair with the Imam!" | College Freiburg Teaching Fellowship
• Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek and others: New Travel - New Media. Circulations of Contemporary Travel Experience Between Practice and Representation | Volkswagen Foundation
• Inga Wilke M.A. and Prof. dr. Markus Tauschek (leader): Must study? | Subproject of the Collaborative Research Center 1015 "Muße. Borders, spacetime, practices "

Collaborative research

• Prof. Dr. Anna Lipphardt, dr. Inga Schwarz and others | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS): Tracing Narratives of Flight to Migration
• Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek | Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS): Self-Optimization as Core Competence

Other Projects

• Prof. Dr. Werner Mezger (conductor): Folklore Europaea
• Dr. Matthias Möller and Prof. Dr. med. Markus Tauschek: Networked learning, researching, conveying: work in collections. A Cooperation of Folklore Collector Institutions with Universities | Country Initiative Small Subjects

 
Postdoctoral and habilitation projects

• Dr. Sarah May: Wood + Craft
• Dr. Fatma Sagir: "Having an affair with the Imam!" 
• Dr. Barbara Sieferle: Life after prison
  

Promotion projects

• Esteban Acuña: Romani Mobilities across the Atlantic
• Karen Breiholz: Perception, interpretation, (ver) densities. Creative writing in the context of social aestheticization. (Title)
• Anja Joos: On the importance of mobility and residency rights
• Ina Kuhn: Utopias live?
• Nikola Nölle: Doing Popular Culture
• Ruth Weiand: City, Land, Sustainability - Ideas, Images and Practices of Ethical Travel
• Inga Wilke: Must study?
• Jing Zhao: Knowledge, Practices and Emotions in Migration - Living Worlds of Chinese in Germany
• Gisela Zimmermann: Pilgrims in the age of digital communication

Completed dissertations

• Maria Grewe: Containers, file sharing, repair shops. Everyday cultural figurations of finiteness and sustainability discourses
• Jeanne Labigne: "Working on Hat"
• Harald Stahl: "... the tall trees and the undergrowth and the dead ...". Forest awareness and wilderness culture.
• Kiedaisch, Franziska Maria: Sorbs on TV. Discourse-analytical consideration of German-language, public television broadcasts to the Sorbs with reference to production contexts and their correlations to Sorbian self and other perceptions.

 
Recently completed research projects

• Dr. Sarah May (lead): Narrow. Practices in urban densification
• Prof. Dr. Markus Tauschek (direction) | DFG Network: Competition and Competition
• Prof. Dr. Anna Lipphardt (leader) u.a. | Research project of the Excellence Initiative: Cultures of Mobility in Europe (COME)
• Dr. Florian von Dobeneck and dr. Sarah May (lead): Wait. To deal with "untimely"