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Tobias Holzlehner

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Education

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, December 2006 (Doctoral Thesis: “Shadow Networks: Border economies, informal markets, and organized crime in Vladivostok and the Russian Far East”). MA in Social Anthropology, Prehistory, and Slavonic Languages, University of Tübingen, Germany, May 2000 (Master Thesis: “Traveling Artifacts: The politics of archaeology in Chukotka, Russia”).

Professional Employment

2014 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Seminar für Ethnologie, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

2013 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, NSF, Arctic Social Science project (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State)

2012 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, NSF, Arctic Social Science project (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State).

2011 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, NSF, Arctic Social Science project (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State).

2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow / Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, BOREAS-MOVE project (Moved by the State – Histories and Futures of Relocations in Alaska and Rural Chukotka), 01/10-12/10.

2009 Post-Doctoral Fellow / Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, BOREAS-MOVE project (Moved by the State – Histories and Futures of Relocations in Alaska and Rural Chukotka), 01/09-12/09.

2008 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, BOREAS-MOVE project (Moved by the State – Histories and Futures of Relocations in Alaska and Rural Chukotka), 01/08-12/08.

2007 Term Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 9/07-12/07.

2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 9/06-8/07.

Research Assistant, Department of Anthropology University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1/06-8/06.

2005 Research Assistant, Center for Alaskan Native Health Research, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 1/05-9/05.

2004 Instructor, Department of Social Anthropology, Far Eastern State Technical University, Vladivostok, Russia, 3/04 – 5/04.

2003 Census/Household Surveyor, Nuiqsut, Alaska, North Slope Borough, 5/03.

Location manager / logistics and cultural consultant / translator, EPO Film (Vienna, Austria) in Alaska and Chukotka, documentary film project “Beringia: Bridge Between Continents”, 6/03-8/03.

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 9/03-12/03.

2002 Contract Anthropologist, (logistics / cultural resource management), Tanana Chief’s Conference (Native Alaska Regional Corporation), 6/02-8/02.

Instructor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks (course: Individual, Society, and Culture), 1/02-5/02.

2001 Archaeological Crew Leader, (documentation, logistics, GPS/GIS), Northern Land Use Research, Inc., Fairbanks, 5/01-8/01.

2000 Research Assistant, (set up database on arctic housing), Prof. Müller-Beck, Institute of Early Prehistory, Tübingen, 1/00-5/00.

1999 Teaching Assistant, (tutorial for undergraduate students), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology , University of Tübingen, Germany, 10/99-12/99;

Related Student Assistant, (general office duties, library service, etc.), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology , University of Tübingen, Germany, 1/99-9/99.

1998 Webmaster, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology , University of Tübingen, Germany;

Teaching Assistant, (tutorial for undergraduate students), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology , University of Tübingen, Germany, 10/98-12/98; Related Student Assistant, (general office duties, library service, proofreading), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany, 11/97-9/98.

1997 Research Assistant, (compiled database on Central Asia) for Prof. Stellrecht, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Tübingen, Germany, 1/97-10/97.

1996 Related Student Assistant, (assisted department director in general office duties), Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen, Germany, 1/96-12/96.

Courses Taught

SS 2019 Historische Anthropologie

SS 2019 Zirkumpolare Ethnologie

WS 2018/19 Animismus: Neue ethnologische Perspektiven

WS 2018/19 Historische Anthropologie

SS 2018 Magie: Eine religionsethnologische Einführung

SS 2018 Zona: Post-industrielle Landschaften aus ethnologischer Perspektive

WS 2017/18 Projektmodul II (B)

WS 2017/18 Schattenwirtschaft und Organisierte Kriminalität: Eine wirtschaftsethnologische Einführung

SS 2017 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

SS 2017 Ethnologie der Jagd - SE II (A: Wirtschaft/Technologie)

SS 2017 Projektmodul II (A)

WS 2016/17 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

WS 2016/17 Muster im Himmel – Einführung in die Ethnoastronomie

WS 2016/17 Projektmodul I

SS 2016 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

SS 2016 Methoden der Ethnologie

SS 2016 Methoden der Ethnologie

WS 2015/16 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

WS 2015/16 Magischer Realismus: Die Ethnologie von Michael Taussig

WS 2015/16 Verwandtschaft und soziale Organisation

SS 2015 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

SS 2015 Einführung in die Wirtschaftsethnologie

SS 2015 Meere, Küsten und Häfen: Strömungen maritimer Ethnologie

WS 2014/15 Absolventenkolloquium BA/MA

WS 2014/15 Projektmodul II

WS 2014/15 Techniken des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens

SS 2014 Absolventenkolloquium

SS 2014 Einführung in die Wirtschaftsethnologie

SS 2014 Projektmodul II

Fieldwork

Ethnographic Fieldwork

2013 Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chukotka, Russia (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State), 6/13 – 8/13.

2012 Ethnographic Fieldwork, Primorskii Krai, Russia (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State), 7/12 – 8/12.

2009 Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chukotka, Russia (“Moved by the State – Histories and Futures of Relocations in Alaska and Rural Chukotka”), 8/09– 10/09.

2008 Ethnographic Fieldwork, Chukotka, Russia (“Moved by the State – Histories and Futures of Relocations in Alaska and Rural Chukotka”), 8/08 – 10/08.

2004 Long-term fieldwork, Vladivostok, Russia, (“Cosmopolitan Xenophobia: Cultural Dynamics of Consumption and Ethnic Interaction in Vladivostok, Russia”; Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) 1/04 – 12/04.

2003 Household surveys, (structured interviews) Nuiqsut, Alaska, 2003 North Slope Borough Census, 5/03.

2002 Exploratory research study, (preliminary interviews) Vladivostok, Russia, 10/02-11/02;

Cultural resource management, Tanana Chiefs Conference (Native Alaska Regional Corporation), native allotments in the Alaska Interior, 6/02-8/02.

2001 Anthropological field research, Kola Peninsula, NW-Russia (“Industrial Impacts on Ecological and Social Environments”) 8/01-9/01;

Oral / life history project,Between Worlds: A Bering Strait Portrait of John Burns” 1/01-4/01.

1998 Ethnoarchaeological project, mapping of a reindeer herder camp from the1960s and interviews with former inhabitants, in Chukotka, Russia, 8/98.

1997 Survey and mapping, historic village in Chukotka, Russia, 8/97;

Cultural Anthropology project, culture, remembrance and history, combined with a poster exhibition on the scientific results of an archaeological expedition, Chukotka, Russia, 7/97-9/97.

1996-98 Research, participant observation, interviews on the political dimension of archaeology in Chukotka, 7-9/96, 7-9/97, 7-9/98.

1995 Internship, National Radio in Bishkek, Kyrghyztan, 8/95-10/95.

1993 Research, Catholic pilgrims in Sindelfingen, Germany and Chiubiasco, Italy, 6/93.

Web Pages

2012 NSF-   Project website (Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State)   

2010 Geo-referenced data base of village relocations on the Chukchi Peninsula    (MOVE project)   

Exhibitions

1999 “Erdrand: Fotographien aus Tschukotka (Sibirien)” [Land’s End: Photographs from Chukotka, Sibiria], J.J. Heckenhauer Galerie für Photographie, Tübingen, 12/99-1/00.

1997 Poster exhibition in various settlements in Chukotka, Russia, to communicate archaeological results to local communities, 7/97-9/97.

Movies

2010 “The Hunt”, 15 min

Fellowships & Grants

  • National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Science Program (“Far Eastern Borderlands: Informal Networks and Space at the Margins of the Russian State,” PI Tobias Holzlehner), US$ 150,000.
  • Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellowship, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, University of California, Berkeley (“Private Wealth and Public Power: Oligarchs, Tycoons and Magnates in Comparative Perspective”), 9/06-8/07; US$ 35,000.
  • Thesis Completion Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 9/05-5/06; US$ 9,000.
  • Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (“Cosmopolitan Xenophobia: Cultural Dynamics of Consumption and Ethnic Interaction in Vladivostok, Russia”), 1/04-12/04; US$ 16,000.
  • University of Alaska Museum, Geist Fund Grant for an exploratory research study in Vladivostok, Russia (“Vladivostok: Spatial Explorations and Preliminary Interviews in the Russian Far East”); 10/02-11/02; US$ 3,000.
  • Graduate Fellowship in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 9/02-5/03; US$ 10,000.
  • Graduate Fellowship in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 9/00-5/01; US$ 11,000.
  • Travel Grant from the University of Tübingen to the 11th Inuit Studies Conference, Nuuk, Greenland, September 1998; US$ 1,000.

Professional Memberships

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde
American Anthropological Association
Soyuz: Postsocialist Cultural Studies
Society for Applied Anthropology
Association of American Geographers
American Society for Ethnohistory

Languages

German (native)
English (fluent)
Russian (fluent)
Spanish (read and speak)
French (read)

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