PhD students

230 records
Lastname Firstname Social University E-Mail Domain Theme of thesis Director of thesis Defence year
ADJEI ARTHUR Susanna IHEID E-Mail Becoming 'Relevant': an Ethnography of Graduate Experience in Ghana Professor Anna-Riikka Kaupinnen
Professor Isabel Pike
2025
ADOMAKO Kwaku UNIL E-Mail Translating communities: How LGBTI* advocates in transnational advocacy networks shape national social and political landscapes Sébastien Chauvin
Claire Somerville
2024
AFSARY Alexandra UNIL E-Mail Anthropologie, études genre Une responsabilité contraceptive incorporée : socio-anthropologie du genre, des expériences et des pratiques ordinaires de contraception en Suisse romande Irene Maffi
Marta Roca Escoda
AHOYA Nicole UNILU E-Mail Transformations of healthcare provision and planning in the digital age in Kenya Prof. Sandra Bärnreuther
AKCINAR Mustafa UNIZH E-Mail Development and Trust in Upper Mesopotamia Prof. Peter Finke
Prof. Heinz Käufeler
ALAWAWDEH Haneen UNIL E-Mail Family Violence Against Girls and Women in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia prof. Irene Maffi 2026
ALBISSER Isabelle UNISG E-Mail Politics of Affects in 'Immigrant Integration' Prof. Dr. Christa Binswanger
Prof. Dr. Chris Steyaert
2026-2027
ALEMAN Serjara UNIL E-Mail Anthropology Prof. Monika Salzbrunn
ALFREDO Ambre UNIBAS E-Mail Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa (PRECURBICA) - Cotonou (Benin) Prof. Dr. Jon Schubert
Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers
2026
ALTUNBULAK Aylin UNIBE E-Mail Queering spaces under political authoritarianism. Resistance and performances in Turkey Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser
ALVARADO GREFA Lisa UNIBE E-Mail Convivial Constitutionality: Human-Jaguar Interrelations in Colombia Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller
Robert Fletcher
2024
ANABTAWI Khaled IHEID E-Mail Anthropology and Sociology. (Political sociology, political anthropology). Construction of sectarianism in settler colonialism context (the case of Palestine) Professor. Riccardo Bocco 2024
AUBERT Baptiste UNINE E-Mail Après la ville-usine : recherches sur les différentes mises en récit du passé industriel textile dans la ville de Verviers (Wallonie). Mme Ellen HERTZ WERRO not known yet
AYAZ Atak IHEID E-Mail Digging for Moral Economies in the Vineyards of Turkey
BACCHETTA Jean UNINE E-Mail Libre évolution et réensauvagement, un pas en arrière vers le futur: Recherche anthropologique sur les nouvelles politiques de conservation de la nature Alexandre Aebi ND
BACHRIOKTORA Yudi UNIBE E-Mail Land conflicts and forest governance in Indonesia Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj
BASKI Márta UNISG E-Mail Productive families and capable mothers: un/deservingness in Hungarian family policies Jelena Tošić
Violetta Zentai
2025
BASSETT Pambana UNIBE E-Mail Political Ecologies and Intersectionality in Ghana's Urban Commons Dr. Jean-David Gerber
Dr. Akosua Darkwah, Dr. Deniz Ay, Dr. Miriam Tola
2027
BEGEYEVA Gulzhan IHEID E-Mail Muslim charity networks in Central Asia Till Mostowlansky
BELHADJ Marion UNIL E-Mail La pandémie une épreuve citoyenne. Approche comparée Algérie, Kanaki-Nouvelle Calédonie, Suisse Laurence Kaufmann
BELKEBIR Othman IHEID E-Mail Mouvements à la trace : analyse d’une gouvernementalité des circulations au Maroc Alessandro Monsutti 2023
BELLARDI Nadia UNIBAS E-Mail Queer Lives and Mobility Across Generations Prof. Dr. George-Paul Meiu
BENOIT Lucie UNIBE E-Mail Legal Anthropology Climate litigation & juridification of climate politics in Switzerland (working title) Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert
Dr. Jevgeniy Bluwstein
2027
BENYEZZAR Mohamed-walid HESSO-GE E-Mail Trajectoires, vécus et transitions vers l’âge adulte de jeunes mineurs étrangers arrivés en Suisse sans autorisation de séjour Pr. Marion Fresia (UNINE)
Pr. Milena Chimienti (HETS Genève)
2026
BERG Hanna IHEID E-Mail Paper refugees: a study of the everyday experiences of Syrians' (im)mobility in Jordan Professor Patricia Spyer 2023
BERRARD Anna UNIL E-Mail Féminisme, écologie et spiritualité à travers les pratiques de lecture Irene Becci
Geneviève Pruvost
BESENÇON Sylvain UNIFR E-Mail Anthropology of information security Prof. David Bozzini
BITTEL Sarah IHEID E-Mail Speak with us, not about us! Afghans struggle to be seen and heard. Alessandro Monsutti
Ruth Mandel
2024
BOHORQUEZ Oscar UNISG E-Mail Deconstructing Cultural and Organizational postcolonial imaginaries in Post-Conflict Colombia: Alternative Media and Emerging Social Leadership voices and emerging praxis Yvette Sanchez
Christian Bueschges
2025
BORDOLI Andrea UNIBE E-Mail Burnt Creek: Experimental audiovisual approaches to indigeneity and multispecies assemblages in northern Québec mining communities (provisional title) Michaela Schäuble
TBD
2025
BOREL Manon UNIBE E-Mail Temporality of border infrastructures: distant neighborhood at the sealed Armenian-Turkish border Sabine Strasser (University of Bern)
Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)
2026
BRESSAN Margaux UNIL E-Mail Anthropologie de la santé Expérience de la maladie chronique d’enfants vivant avec une épilepsie. Entre prescription médicale et proscription des crises, des co-temporalités inscrites dans la chair Daniela Cerqui Ducret
Sophie Arborio
BROGER Regula k. UNISG E-Mail How do leaders drive true corporate sustainability transformation in a context of uncertainty and equivocality? Prof. Dr. Patrik Aspers
BRUTTIN Lorry UNINE E-Mail réorganisation des dynamiques familiales dans les familles paysannes au moment de la retraite Caroline Henchoz HETSL
Jérémie Forney UniNE
BÜHLER Jürg UNILU E-Mail Well-being and selfcare among transnational workers in Switzerland Prof. Sandra Bärnreuther
CABALLÉ Pierre UNINE E-Mail "Ce que prendre soin des abeilles veut dire - une ethnographie des politiques du déclin" - Humans/Bees Relation
CABALZAR Aloisio IHEID E-Mail Climate Change in Indigenous Amazonia: Life Cycles, Environmental Knowledge and Scales of Governance Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff
CANTO Adrien UNINE E-Mail Cultural pratices in Equatorial Guinea Dr. Alice Aterianus Owanga
CHARMEY Diane UNILU E-Mail Healing through yoga: Contemporary yoga practices by Muslims in Indian and Pakistani Panjab. Ass.- Prof. Dr. Sandra Bärnreuther
Dr. Suzanne Newcombe
2028
CHATTERJEE Saheli IHEID E-Mail Estrangements and Entitlements: Oral Histories Burmese-Indian Repatriation, 1960s-80s Professor Gopalan Balachandran
Professor Umut Yildrim
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CHATTOPADHYAY Suchismita IHEID E-Mail Politics of Self-fashioning: The beauty industry and personality grooming of women in neoliberal India.
CHAUTEMS Caroline UNIL E-Mail Les temporalités de l'allaitement: des normes médico-sociales aux pratiques et à l'expérience des mères Irene Maffi
CHOFFAT Leandra UNIBE E-Mail A Feminist Analysis of Urban Commons Institutions (UCIs) through the Lens of Intersectional Political Ecologies Prof. Jean-David Gerber, University of Bern
Prof. Miriam Tola, John Cabot University, Rome Prof. Akosua Darkwah, University of Ghana, Accra Dr. Deniz Ay, University of Bern
2027
CLERC Sélim UNINE E-Mail The legacies of the measures implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic Pr. Christin Achermann Pr. Janine Dahinden
CORDEY Michael UNIL E-Mail Anthropologie des techniques, du corps et de la santé Connais-sens et technique. L'innovation technologique à la conquête de la réhabilitation des corps Ilario Rossi
CORRADINI Francesco IHEID E-Mail Nico Krisch
Grégoire Mallard
CRIMA BELLINI Kaue Felipe Nogarotto UNIBAS E-Mail Transatlantic Cruising: racialized spaces, mobility, intimacy, and Queer worlding Prof. Dr. George Paul Meiu
PD. Dr. Lorena Rizzo
ĆURAK Hana UNIZH E-Mail Collectiveness and Radical Futures: Shared Curatorship as Intervention in the context of post-Yugoslavia Prof. Dr. Silvy Chakkalakal 2026
DA SILVA ARAUJO Larissa IHEID E-Mail Life alternatives: quotidian practices of Kayambi people Dr. Isabelle Schulte-Tenckoff 2023
DAQUIN Alice IHEID E-Mail Femmes et résistance dans les quartiers populaires de Marseille Dennis Rodgers 2023
DE LA FUENTE Maria UNIL E-Mail Local Tourism, Territorial Development, and the Western Quest for Sustainability: Contributions from 2 non-western Case Studies the Q’eros Indigenous Nation and the Japanese Temple Hospitality Prof. Leïla Kebir 2026
DE LUTZ Marie IHEID E-Mail Anthropology Liberation in a Cup: Scales of worldmaking in everyday intimacies Patricia Spyer
Aditya Bharadwaj
2024
DE SOUZA SOARES Victor UNIBE E-Mail Dwellings of Sound: Auditory Knowledge and Sonic Symbolism amongst the Geraizeiros of Central Brazil Prof. Dr. Britta Sweers
DELMAS Virgile UNIL E-Mail La diffusion vers l'Europe de rituels autochtones nord-américains Raphaël Rousseleau
Laurent Jérôme
2024
DI GREGORIO Stefano IHEID E-Mail The Biopolitics of Covid 19 Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Aditya Bharadwaj
2023
DLAMINI Nkululeko IHEID E-Mail Content Creation in the age of Platformization and Algorithmic Management Professor Filipe Calvão
DUDRAK Agnieszka UNINE E-Mail Travelling Empowerments: Ethnograpgy of NGOs Domestic Violence Projects in Georgia Prof. Marion Fresia Prof. Ellen Hertz
EBERLE Martina UNIBE E-Mail Regimes of Harmonization, An Ethnography of Corporate Practices in the Global Financial Industry Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj
Prof. Dr. Arne Scheuermann
EICH Marie UNINE E-Mail Des Bénévoles sur l'Alpe Viviane Cretton
Jérémie Forney
2026
EL OUARDI Martine UNIL E-Mail Fighting the Image War: The Struggle of (Undocumented) Migrants in Paris amidst the 2024 Olympics Monika Salzbrunn 2027
ELABED Saada UNIZH E-Mail Questions on the emptyness in the archive Mareile Flitsch
ENGLAND Gen UNIZH E-Mail Labour, Time and Caste in the Agricultural Anthropocene in Tamil Nadu Dr Nicolas Martin
EPHRUSSI Alexander IHEID E-Mail The Many Faces of Home: Law and Affect among Afghans on the Move Dr. Alessandro Monsutti 2025
FELBER Selina UNIBE E-Mail Transformations of food systems, related food consumption patterns and nutritional diversity and its impact on the food security in the rural area Pays Bedik (south-east Senegal) Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller
PD Dr. Sonja Merten
July 2024
FERI Vanessa UNIFR E-Mail The architecture profession adapting to circularity: The transformation of processes, social relationships, and roles when reusing building materials Madlen Kobi
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
2026
FERNANDES Marianna IHEID E-Mail The the incorporation and use of 4.0 technologies in the mining industry in Latin America
FERT Marion UNINE E-Mail "FIGURES DE LA REUSSITE ET DU POUVOIR – Trajectoires d’une élite intellectuelle produite au sein d’un contexte de déplacements forcés et prolongés" Prof. Dr. Marion Fresia (Unine)
FOSU Augustine UNIBE E-Mail Formalization of Customary Tenure Practices and Customary Land Administration in Peri-Urban Ghana Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller 2024
FREY Louise UNIBE E-Mail Schuld un(d) Fähigkeit – Konzeption von Verantwortung und Sanktion in (non-) punitiven Justizsystemen Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern
FRIEDEN Marie-Cécile UNINE E-Mail Logiques et itinéraires thérapeutiques de femmes atteintes du cancer du col utérin au Burkina Faso Christian Ghasarian
FRIEDRICH Jonas UNISG E-Mail The Role of Democratic Organizing in the Socio-Ecological Transformation Prof. Dr. Chris Steyaert
Prof. Dr. Christa Binswanger
2025
FRIGO-CHARLES Olivia UNIZH E-Mail Left behind? Formations of crisis and community in deindustrialised South Wales Prof. Moritz Ege, ISEK UZH
Prof. Monika Götz, ZHAW Soziale Arbeit
FRÜH Anja UNIFR E-Mail La politique du patrimoine culturel. Les musées nationaux ethnographiques en France et en Allemagne (1989- 2013)
GANGWAR Aadarsh IHEID E-Mail Queer disruptions to truth and credibility assessment within asylum procedures Professor Aditya Bharadwaj 2025
GAPANY Jérôme UNIL E-Mail Mobilités à Fuzhou : Biographie des biens publics d'un ancien « village-dans-la-ville » converti en communauté urbaine (titre provisoire) Mme Anne-Christine Trémon 2022
GATIGNOL Lucas UNIL E-Mail Aux périphéries de la servitude. Migrations et travail aux Seychelles Anne-Christine Trémon
GEISER Anna UNINE E-Mail Exploring Resilient Transitions, Stakeholder Visions, and Digital Innovations in Swiss Organic Farming Prof. Dr. Jérémie Forney
GHAFIR Mariam UNIGE E-Mail sciences politique et études genre Administrer les politiques de Planning Familial en Egypte depuis la Conférence Internationale pour la Population et le Développement : pour une compréhension des dynamiques locales de la réception des politiques de développement en matière de sexualité et de contrôle des naissances. Ilana Eloit (UniGe)
Assia Boutaleb (Paris1)
2027
GHILDIYAL Surya UNIBE E-Mail Co-constitutive Majoritarianism: Ordinary People and Everyday Constitution of Hindu Majoritarian Indian State Dr. Julia Eckert 2026
GHOMASHLOUYAN Moslem UNIBE E-Mail Unregulated Commercial Mobilities in the Kurdish Mountains of the Iran-Iraq Border Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser (University of Bern)
Prof. Shahram Khosravi (Stockholm University)
GIBILISCO Saro UNIFR E-Mail Precarisation in Switzerland. Continuities and Ruptures in Paid Work
GIRAUT Camille IHEID E-Mail Actions affirmatives et reconceptualisation de la race : les positionnements des mouvements noirs au Brésil. Prof. Graziella Moraes Da Silva 2022
GMUER Thomas IHEID E-Mail "Dysfunctional Democracy": Towards an Ergotherapy of the Political Prof. Anna Leander
Prof. Jonathan Luke Austin
2024
GUARDADO Clara UNIZH E-Mail Materiality of the Political Violence in El Salvador and Guatemala: Rethinking Memory, Peace, and Justice in the post conflict era Professor Dr. Liliana Gomez-Popescu
Professor Dr. Ellen Moddie
GUERDAT Ophélie UNINE E-Mail Migration et accès aux prestations sociales (domain of thesis) Prof. Christin Achermann, Université de Neuchâtel Prof. Alexandre Lambelet, HETSL/HES-SO
HAILE Semhar UNIBAS E-Mail PRECURBICA - Precarious Urbanisms in Coastal Africa - Freetown, Sierra Leone Prof. Jon Schubert
Prof. Kenny Cupers
2026
HÄNNI Anna UNIBE E-Mail Member in the SNSF-Project "Coercive Space-Time Regimes: Comparing Configurations of Care and Constraint in Different Institutions" Ueli Hostettler, Prof. (FH), Dr. habil. (PH Bern, University of Berne)
Marina Richter, PD Dr. (HESO Wallis, University of Berne)
HEINI Céline UNIFR E-Mail Social Anthropology Dealing with whiteness. Perspectives of people of Chilean descent in Switzerland (provisional) David Bozzini
Anne Lavanchy
2025
HEINZER Nikolaus UNIZH E-Mail Wolfish Inflitrations. An Ethnography on Human-Environmental Relations in Switzerland. Bernhard Tschofen
Walter Leimgruber
HJALMARSON Elise IHEID E-Mail (Re)turning home: Shifting notions of belonging and the good life in times of crisis Dr. Valerio Simoni 2023
HOWALD Claudia --- E-Mail Anthropology, Sociology Black urban youth in the Colombian Pacific: political and memory practices Marisa Ramos Gonçalves, CES-University of Coimbra, Portugal 2024
HU Jueling UNIFR E-Mail Media Studies; Human Geography 2025
HURTER Christophe UNINE E-Mail 3 essays in financial accounting Prof. Peter Fiechter
IMHOF Christoph UNIBE E-Mail The promise of the other. Living the opposite sex in Southern Spain Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj
Prof. Dr. Andrea Maihofer
INSBERG Manuel UNIBE E-Mail Violent Safe Havens? Exploring Articulations and Repercussions of Violence in Refugee Reception and Settlement in Norway Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, University of Bern
Dr. Carolin Fischer, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, University of Bern
JALLO zainabu UNIBE E-Mail From the Sacred to the Spectacular: Performance of Diasporic Consciousness through Visual Representations in Brazilian Candomblé Prof. Dr. Michaela Schäuble,
Prof. Dr. Gonçalves da Silva ( USP São Paulo) Prof. Dr. Nadia Radwan
JAMBERS Anaël UNIZH E-Mail Ethics and Politics in Switzerland Johannes Quack 2025
JIANG Xiaoyi yijing UNIL E-Mail Socio-anthopologie Trajectoires migratoires et insertions socioprofessionnelles des nouvelles prolétaires chinoises en France Anne-Christine Trémon
JOUSSET Amanda UNINE E-Mail Anthropologie Le cacao fin et aromatique au Pérou: quels enjeux pour les cultivateur.rice.s? Jérémie Forney 2023
JUAN Paola UNIL E-Mail Anthropology of health
JUD Rahel UNIBE E-Mail Palm oil industry in Indonesia Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj
KAHENGA MATONGO Albert UNINE E-Mail Docctorat en sciences humaines et sociales PhD Title of thesis: Adaptation mechanisms of agricultural households to climate change in DRCongo: case study of the Tshopo Province Associate Professor Jérémie Forney 2024
KANE Violetta UNIBE E-Mail Colonial continuities in agriculture. Prof. Dr. Stefan Leins
KEMPTER Nadja UNIZH E-Mail Research about high-tech processes in agribusinesses in Vietnam Pro. Dr. Annuska Derks
KHAMSY Nina IHEID E-Mail Provisional title: Scales of mobility of Afghan transnational youth in the digital era Prof. Alessandro Monsutti, Dr Till Mostowlansky
Dr Zuzanna Olszewska
2024
KIDERLIN Nina Teresa IHEID E-Mail Global Financial Networks of Armed Groups: An Exploration of Illicit Spaces, Regulatory, and Judicial Responses Prof. Grégoire Mallard
KLAUE Léa UNIBE E-Mail Visual Anthropology, Digital Storytelling A look into the meaning of “work” in children’s and adolescent’s lives in urban Bolivia. An audio-visual ethnography and the impossibilities of picturing the other’s reality Michaela Schäuble 2023
KLEIN Joshua IHEID E-Mail Ambiguous Acculturations. Mind Sciences, Modernity and the Making of Subjects ‘after Race’, ca. 1930–1980 Mischa Suter
KOCH Julis IHEID E-Mail Cognition in Crisis? On Climate Risk, Innovative Fixes and Other Anticipatory Practices of World-Making Gregoire Mallard 2025
KÖHLER Anne UNISG E-Mail Transforming entrepreneurship education through feminist critical pedagogy Prof. Chris Steyaert
Prof. Karen Verduijn, VU Amsterdam
2024 or early 2025
KONG Jolene yiqiao IHEID E-Mail Reproductive governance and women in Contemporary China Aditya Bharadwaj
Isabel Pike
2025
KÖPPEL Jonas IHEID E-Mail Cultures of Extractivism: Decolonial perspectives on Lithium in Latin America encore à définir
encore à définir
2021
KOZACZUK Dorota IHEID E-Mail Who Is Imagining Palestine? A Study of Mediation Processes of Experts’ Knowledge (Foreign Architects and Planners) and its Effects on the Creative Sovereignty of Palestinian Spatial Expertise Professor Riccardo Bocco
KRÄHENBÜHL Mathilde UNIL E-Mail Giving birth or not: Reproduction, environmental concerns, and (im)possible futures Irene Maffi 2026
KRISTOL Anne UNINE E-Mail The naturalization procedure in Switzerland: A gender perspective on the practices and representations of state actors Janine Dahinden
KUKUCZKA Anne UNIZH E-Mail anthropology of gender, anthropology of the body, critical beauty studies, urban anthropology
KUNCORO Wahyu UNIZH E-Mail Contesting the Margins: Tablighi Jama'at and the (re)Islamization of Cham Muslims of Cambodia Prof. Annuska Dersk
LA RAGIONE Loeva UNIL E-Mail Digital anthropology Mark Goodale (UNIL)
LAMOTTE Léa UNIBE E-Mail Finding transformational pathways for a Sustainable Swiss Food System (still in discussion) Sabin Bieri
Thomas Breu
2025 (planned)
LASSAK Maria UNISG E-Mail "We expect them to do more than just order a passport" - Affective dimensions of citizenship in the Swiss naturalisation process. Jelena Tosic (HSG)
Sabine Strasser (University of Bern) and Insa Koch (HSG)
2025
LEFORT Theo IHEID E-Mail The natures of displacement : relations to nature on Afghan journeys in Istanbul and Geneva Alessandro Monsutti 2026
LIEDERMAN Camille UNIFR E-Mail Consuming Astrology François Gautier
TBD
2025 or 2026
LLOPART OLIVELLA Pol IHEID E-Mail Social Anthropology, mainly religion and economics City of Givers: Time, Personhood and the Gift among Muslims in the Serbian Sandžak Till Mostowlansky 2026
LOMBARD Margaux UNIL E-Mail "Accès Culture, des projets de médiation artistique menés entre le continent africain et la France : enjeux politiques, acteurs, pratiques ". Monika Salzbrunn
LOUM Thioro UNINE E-Mail Corps, mental et émotion : Représentations et instrumentalisation de la corporalité dans la performance de courses extrêmes et de défi en Suisse Professeur Ghasarian
Alain Mueller Aggée Célestin Lomo Myazhiom
End 2025
LUCHSINGER Tanja UNIZH E-Mail The negotiation of moralities in transnational conjugal relationships Prof. Dr. Johannes Quack
To be decided
unclear yet
LY Shia Manh UNINE E-Mail Culture populaire, politique Christophe Jaccoud
Dominique Malatesta
MAILLET Léo UNIGE E-Mail The social life of naan Laure Zhang
Stéphane Dudoignon
2022
MALATESTA Louisa UNINE E-Mail Beef sector's adaptation capacity to climate change in the district of Jura and Bernese Jura Jérémie Forney 2028
MARINGONI Marco IHEID E-Mail Je suis encore dans la phase de conception de mon projet. Le sujet est l'industrie d'auditing. La thèse sera écris en anglais. Prof. Marc Flandreau
MARION Richard UNIL E-Mail Études sociales des sciences et des techniques (STS) La fabrique de l'ingénieur aujourd'hui - Cas de l'École Centrale De Pékin et de l'Institut sino-européen d'aéronautique. Dominique Vinck
MATASCI Lena UNINE E-Mail world relationships in voluntary simplicity
MATHEZ Andrea UNIL E-Mail Political Ecology ‘Alternative Agricultures’ as Concrete Utopias: Peasant Experiences, Experiments and Struggles in Switzerland and Morocco Christian Kull 2026
MAZUMDAR Purbasha IHEID E-Mail Anthropology of science and medicine
MEIER Anina UNIZH E-Mail Potentialities of CRISPR: An ethnography of reproductive medicine in Switzerland Prof. Dr. Annuska Derks
Prof. Dr. Mareile Flitsch
2026
MELI Thierry UNIBE E-Mail The nurse, the resident and coloniality of power. Discussing diversity-sensitivity in a Swiss nursing home. Eva Soom-Ammann
Vacant!
2024
MÉLISANDE Nicolet UNIL E-Mail Corps normés, corps incarnés, corps symbolisés : Anthropologie réflexive et ethnographie des TCA Daniela Cerqui-Ducret
METZGER Gerry UNIBE E-Mail Geteiltes Leben, geteiltes Geld - Gemeinsame Ökonomie in Bern Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj
MOESINGER Anke UNILU E-Mail Local Discourses and Understandings of Rapid Environmental Change on Takuu Atoll, PNG: Perceptions from a Polynesian Outlier Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer
MOURTAZINA Ellina UNIL E-Mail Personal transformations and modern tourism rituals David Picard 2020
MOVAHEDI Mahroo UNIBE E-Mail A sensory ethnography in "Zayanderood" In Isfahan, Iran Professor Dr.Michaela Schäuble
NATHANIEL Danishwara IHEID E-Mail IMAGES, (IN)VISIBILITIES, AND WORK ON APPEARANCES Prof. Patricia Spyer
NEWMAN Sibylle UNINE E-Mail cultural and educational psychology The cultural and historical elements guiding children socialization practices in Ghanaian classrooms. A sociomaterial perspective. Antonio Iannaccone 2022
NGUYEN Phuong UNIZH E-Mail Sharing economy and digitalisation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Viet Nam Prof. Dr. Annuska Derks
NIRAGIRE NIRERE Doris UNINE E-Mail Sociology Sortir de l'aide sociale à l'enfance : défis et opportunité de l'accession à la majorité Prof. Christin Achermann 2024
NITU Teodor UNIFR E-Mail
NOUR Akbar UNIBE E-Mail Religiosity and Citizenship Amongst Young Swiss Muslim Adults in Contemporary Switzerland: An Ethnograpic Account Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser, Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern, Bern, Schweiz
Prof. Dr. Mirjam Eser Davolio, ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Institut für Vielfalt und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe, Zürich, Schweiz
OMBERE Stephen UNIBE E-Mail Local Perceptions of Social Protection Schemes in Maternal Health in Kenya: Ethnography in Coastal Kenya Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller
Dr. Sonja Merten
2018
OPPLIGER Jean-marie UNIL E-Mail Entre acupuncture et climatisation Les circulations d’objets, de savoirs et de savoir-faire dans la coopération chinoise au Cameroun : L’hôpital de Mbalmayo et le Palais des Sports de Yaoundé Antoine Kernen 2024
PANDEY Riddhi IHEID E-Mail Narratives of Everyday Life from Indian Prisons Patricia Spyer 2024
PANDYA Pearl UNIBE E-Mail Online Hate speech in Law versus Practice in India Prof. Julia Eckert
PANENKA Petra UNILU E-Mail Food Preferences and Food Choices among the Northern Lacandon Maya, Mexico (working title) Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer
PASTRÉ Paule UNIBE E-Mail The Energy Charter Treaty: The reconfiguration of state-corporate legal relations as the climate crisis sounds the death knell of fossil energies Julia Eckert
PATRA Rahi UNISG E-Mail AI, Techno-colonialism and Caste in India Prof. Dr. Veronica Barassi ([email protected])
Prof. Dr. Paula Bialski ([email protected])
2025
PEREZ Thomas IHEID E-Mail Quand les techniques et les TIC s'imbriquent. Yvan Droz 2027
PLUIES Julie UNIL E-Mail Anthropologie Du souci de soi au souci des autres. La fabrique morale des enfants, des adolescents et de leurs parents au fil de parcours de soins pédopsychiatriques au Maroc Prof. Ilario Rossi / Mark Goodale
Sarra Mougel
2022
PORCHET Pierrick UNIGE E-Mail Circulation des pratiques et des représentations kinésiques des arts martiaux chinois Bruno Strasser
Basile Zimmermann
POUX-BERTHE Marie UNISG E-Mail Ageing in a digital society: an exploratory case study of France Prof. Veronica Barassi
Prof. Tanja Schneider
2024
PRALONG Mélody UNIL E-Mail La prise en charge du diabète en milieu scolaire Prof. Francesco Panese
PREISSLER Laura Katharina UNILU E-Mail Navigating Parenting in switzerland Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer
RAGAZZI Costanza IHEID E-Mail platform labour / politics / migration
RAKOTOMANANA Claudine UNIBAS E-Mail Transnational intimacies and power relations Prof. Dr. George Paul Meiu
REICHHARDT Björn UNIFR E-Mail From Ferments to Fences: Land, Milk, and the Making of Value in Rural Mongolia Prof. Dr. Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (Université de Fribourg)
Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
REY Gaspard UNIL E-Mail Between political theory and psychosocial approaches of race and racism. Weight of whiteness on antiracist projects in switzerland. Sébastien Chauvin, University of Lausanne
Shona Hunter, Leeds Beckett University
RICKENBACH Mathias UNIZH E-Mail Migration Infrastructure in the Euro-African Border Space Prof. Dr. Heinz Käufeler
Prof. Dr. Annuska Derks
RIGGS Lauren IHEID E-Mail Medical Anthropology; STS
RIVAROLA GHIGLIONE Facundo IHEID E-Mail Anthropology of the environment/Environmental Governance/Human-environment relations Prof. Shaila Seshia Galvin 2024
RIZK Anthony IHEID E-Mail Medical Anthropology Healthcare and Financial Collapse in Lebanon Vinh Kim Nguyen
Anna-Riikka Kauppinen
2023
ROBERT Gladys UNIL E-Mail Thèse en anthropologie du genre et de la migration sous la direction d'Irene Maffi Irene Maffi
ROCHAT Line UNIL E-Mail Pratiques de soins, pratiques d accueil. Accueillir les nouveau-nés à risque dans le Service de néonatologie du CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois) à Lausanne Prof. Irene Maffi
ROELLI Michael UNIL E-Mail Histoire contemporaine des théories et des usages savants des rêves Rémy Amouroux 2025
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