Curriculum Vitae

Education

2005                   Habilitation in Anthropology, University of Cologne (Thesis “A Right to the Past: Tradition, Democracy, and the Townscape in Contemporary Kyoto”)

1991-1997          Dr. phil. in Anthropology, University of Cologne (Thesis “Die Überlebensbedingungen kommunitärer Gruppen: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung [The Survival Conditions of Utopian Communes: A Comparative Study]“)

1984-1991          M.A. in Anthropology (major), Japanese Studies and Chinese Studies, University of Cologne

1973-1982          High school graduation, Gymnasium Kreuzgasse, Cologne

 

Employment

2010-                  Head of Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

2008-2010          Heisenberg Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG)

2008                   Visiting Full Professor of Anthropology, University of Cologne

2007-2008          Visiting Full Professor of Anthropology, University of Tübingen

2004-2005          Visiting Full Professor of Modern Japan, University of Düsseldorf             

1999-2007          Lecturer, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

1998-1999          Foreign Research Fellow, National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku), Osaka

1992-1998          Instructor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

 

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

2015                   Ladislav Hóly Lecture, Czech Association for Social Anthropology, Prague

2013-                  Member, Academia Europaea

2012-2021          Principal Faculty Member, International Max Planck Research School „Anthropology, Archaeology and History of Eurasia” (IMPRS ANARCHIE), MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle, and University of Halle-Wittenberg

2012-2021          Principal Faculty Member, Graduate School “Society and Culture in Motion”, University of Halle-Wittenberg

2012-2016          Principal Faculty Member, International Research Training Group „Formwandel der Bürgergesellschaft: Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich [Transformations of Civic Society: Japan and Germany in Comparative Perspective]”, University of Halle-Wittenberg und University of Tokyo

2011-                  Honorary Professor of Anthropology, University of Halle-Wittenberg

2008-2010          Heisenberg Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association, DFG)

2001-2003          Habilitation stipend, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1998-1999          Postdoctoral fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

1992                   Dissertation stipend, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation; not used)

1987-1988          Japanese language stipend at Sophia University (Tokyo), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD)

 

Service

2021-                  Member, Human Sciences Section, Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society (as elected scientific staff representative of the MPI for Social Anthropology)

2021-                  Advisory board member, Organisation for Identity and Cultural Development (OICD)

2020-                  Advisory board member, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal for Social and Cultural Anthropology

2018-                  Editorial board member, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology

2015-                  Editorial board member, Japan Anthropology Workshop Series, Routledge

2009-2012          President, Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung (German Association for Social Science Research on Japan, VSJF)

2006-2013          Editorial board member, Japan Jahrbuch

2006-2013          Board member, Vereinigung für sozialwissenschaftliche Japanforschung

Grant proposal reviews, evaluations, tenure reviews and appointment committees for Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Estonian Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, Max Weber Stiftung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Research Foundation Flanders, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, Thyssen Stiftung, Universities of Berlin (FU), Cologne, Constance and Halle-Wittenberg

External PhD examiner at Free University of Brussels, London School of Economics, University of Oslo, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense

Peer reviews for American Ethnologist, Anthropological Forum, Anthropological Quarterly, Anthropological Theory, Anthropologie et Societés, Asian Anthropology, Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, City & Community, City & Society, Contemporary Japan, Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, International Environmental Agreements, International Journal of Cultural Property, International Journal of Heritage Studies, International Journal of Tourism Research, Japan Forum, Japan Jahrbuch, Japan Review, Japanese Studies, Japanstudien, Journal of Anthropological Research, Journal of Global Buddhism, Journal of Legal Pluralism, Journal of Material Culture, Journal of Religion in Japan, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of Social Archaeology, L’Espace Geographique, Modern Asian Studies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Political Geography, Politics Religion and Ideology, Religion, Religions, Social Analysis, Social Anthropology, Teoros, Third World Quarterly, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Zeitschrift für Soziologie (article manuscripts), Berghahn, Elgar, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt, NIAS Press, Routledge, SAGE, University of Hawai’i Press (book proposals and manuscripts)

 

Teaching

Lectures, seminars and other undergraduate, graduate and advanced courses in Anthropology (Universities of Cologne, Tübingen and Halle-Wittenberg) and Japanese studies (University of Düsseldorf), including:

• Introductory lectures and courses: General anthropology, Anthropological theory, Anthropological methods, Economic anthropology, Political anthropology, Anthropology of religion, Urban anthropology, Anthropology of globalisation
• Specialised lectures and courses: Culture as an anthropological and public concept, Interpretative anthropology, Postmodern anthropology, Anthropological job perspectives, Utopian communes in Japan and the world, Egalitarian cooperation, Modern consumption, International organisations, Cultural heritage, UNESCO World Heritage, Anthropology of magic, Anthropology of Buddhism, Anthropology of nature, Asian cities, Anthropology of China, Anthropology of Japan, Traditions and heritage in Japan, Architecture and the building industry in Japan, Biography of Kyoto, Biography of Tokyo, Düsseldorf’s Japanese diaspora

 

Completed PhD Supervision

Shilla Lee→

Hannah Klepeis→

Kristina Jonutytė→

Giuseppe Tateo→

Leah Cheung Ah Li→

Pierpaolo De Giosa→

Vivienne Marquart→