Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Asta Vonderau

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Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Since 2022
Advisory board European Research Council (ERC) Project Emptiness   

Since July 2021
Executive Director at the Centre for Just Tansition and Sustainability (HALIS), togehter with Jonathan Everts and Azar Aliyev

Since February 2020
Executive Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (togehter with Prof. Dr.  Jonathan Everts)

Since August 2018     
Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

10/2017 – 07/2018      
Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin), Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt Main

2017 - 2018                  
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

2014 - 2017                   
Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University

2010 - 2014                   
Associate Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Cultural Anthropology, Department of Film, Theatre, and Empirical Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2009 - 2010                   
Lecturer, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin

2002 - 2004                   
Project Coordinator, Baltic Sea School Berlin, Department for Northern European Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

APPOINTED VISITING POSITIONS

2017 - 2018                   
Visiting professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt Main

2016                            
Visiting Research Fellow. MIT CityScienceLab. Hafen City University Hamburg

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2013                            
Positive evaluation as Associate professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Anthropology, Department of Film, Theatre and Empirical Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2004 - 2008                   
Dr. phil., Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin

1996 - 2001                   
Magistra Artium in European Ethnology and Scandinavian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin

1991 - 1995                   
Studies of Baltic Philology and Scandinavian Studies, University Vilnius and University Copenhagen

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

2016                           
Fellowship, Gastwissenschaftsprogramm für Stadtforschung an der Hafen City Universität Hamburg, funded by ZEIT-Stiftung

2013 - 2017                  
Research project grant Farming Data, Forming the Cloud, funded by The Swedish Foundation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

2009 - 2010                  
Scholarship funded by Berliner Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

2004 - 2008                  
PhD Scholarship, funded by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

2000                            
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Award for excellent student paper, awarded for Staat und Nation wollen sich gegenseitig kannibalisieren“. Die Zeitungsdebatte zur doppelten Staatsbürgerschaft.

MEMBERSHIPS

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)

International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)

The Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT)

German Society for empirical cultural studies (dgekw), speaker of the commission Globalization_Europeanization: Ethnographies of the Political

German Society of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), member of working groups Europe and Public Anthropology

European Research Council (ERC), Advisory Board Project Emptiness   

CEU Press, Editorial Advisory Board series Anthropologies of Eurasia: Ethnographic Encounters of Social Change   

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