Curriculum Vitae

Education and Professional Activities

since 2024
Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Department ‘Law & Anthropology’)

2021–2022
Principal Investigator of the Research Project “Neither Dead nor Alive: Seafarers as Frontline Workers in the Covid-19 Crisis and Beyond” (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation)

summer 2019
Participant in the Summer Academy “Promoting Ocean Governance and Peaceful Settlement of Disputes” at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg (21.07.–16.08.2019)

2019–2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Department ‘Law & Anthropology’) and at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

January 2018
Binational Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, University of Vienna & the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS Paris)  
Ph.D. Thesis: “Making Things Fit, Making Ends Meet: The Small Entrepreneurs of Istanbul's Garment Industry” (joint supervision: Prof. Sabine Strasser & Prof. Michel Peraldi)

2017–2019
Research Assistant in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Fribourg Switzerland

2014–2017
Coordinator of the research project “Intimate Uncertainties: Precarious Life and Moral Economy across European Borders” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern

2013–2017
Research Assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern

2011–2013
Praedoc Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna

2010
Research Grant holder of the Centre Marc Bloch, Franco-German research centre for social sciences in Berlin (October-December)

2010–2011
Lecturer at the Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig

2007–2010
Fellow of the research training group “Critical Junctures of Globalization” funded by the German Research Foundation DFG at the Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Leipzig

June 2006
Master in Human and Social Sciences “International Migration and Interethnic Relations” (Migrinter – CNRS), University of Poitiers France  
Master Thesis (in French): “Uzbekistan’s new commercial paths”

2006
Research grants holder from the IFEA (Institut français d’études anatoliennes Istanbul) and IFEAC (Institut français d’études sur l’Asie centrale Tashkent) (March-May)

September 2005
Master in Geography [Maîtrise], Paris 4 Sorbonne University 
Master Thesis (in French): “Female Traders and Migrants from Uzbekistan in Laleli (Istanbul)”

June 2004
Bachelor in Geography [Licence], Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

September 2003
Bachelor in History [Licence], Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Teaching

Since 2010 Luisa Piart has regularly taught undergraduate and graduate courses both in English and German at the universities of Leipzig, Bern, Fribourg and Halle. In her teaching, she has offered general introductions to social anthropology and also focused on discussions of specific anthropological topics related to the study of material culture, labour relations, moral economies, and ethnographic methods. In the summer session 2014 she also co-organized a fieldwork excursion for students in Ankara.

Fieldwork

since 2019
Multisited fieldwork on seafarers’ rights in London, Hamburg and Panama

2006
Fieldwork in Uzbekistan (Tashkent and Samarkand) (3 months)

2004–2018
Fieldwork in Istanbul, in total over 29 months (in 2016 together with photographer David Bergé)

Visiting Fellowship and Research Affiliations

Department of Anthropology of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (host: Prof Laura Bear) (2019)
Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux IRIS, research institute at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences EHESS Paris (since 2018)
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern (since 2017)   
French Institute for Anatolian Research IFEA in Istanbul (since 2012)
Centre Marc Bloch, French-German research center in social sciences in Berlin (2010–2012)

Membership in Professional Associations

Languages

French and Italian (native)
English and German (fluent)
Turkish (proficient)
Uzbek and Spanish (beginner)