Editorial Team

Gisela Welz was appointed Professor for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1998. For many years, her research addressed urban and regional development as well as the methodological and conceptual challenges that globalization and mobility pose for ethnography. More recent research addresses agri-food production, sustainable development and tourism. Her book “European Products. Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus”, was the 2016 winner in the category "Anthropology" of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE).

Martina Klausner is Professor of Digital Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies and, since 2020, Executive Director of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University. As an anthropologist with a special focus on Science and Technology Studies, her research topics cover a spectrum of current social phenomena: Digitalization and datafication processes of/in cities, the changes of political participation through online platforms, the use of smart technologies in health care, the legal, political and infrastructural governance of the participation of people with disabilities. In addition to the thematic focus, methodological questions are central to her work, such as the possibilities and limits of co-laborative research and intervention, and the use of digital methods for ethnographic research.

Kathrin Eitel is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Zurich (CH). After studying social anthropology, history and politics at universities of Heidelberg and Istanbul, she conducted ethnographic research on recycling infrastructures in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as part of her dissertation project at IfKAEE at the University of Frankfurt. She is currently conducting research on urban resilience practices by examining flood control strategies in HCMC, Vietnam, and a freshwater shortage in Istanbul, Turkey. Kathrin Eitel is particularly interested in environmental issues with a focus on infrastructures, urban resilience strategies, and participatory and co-laborative ways of shaping the future.

Dennis Eckhardt is Postdoctoral researcher at the chair of sociology of Prof. Dr. Sabine Pfeiffer (technology – labour – society) at the Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT) of the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. He studied Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology and Social Sciences at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. He is mainly interested in how digitization and labour/work are connected. In specific, how the way we in Europe work, produces conditions of being for others. Right now he works in a research projects at the intersections of digitization of everyday life and cybersecurity. Main research interests are Media and Digital Anthropology, Labour Cultures, the sociology of labour and organization, infrastructures and science and technology studes.

Timotheus Kartmann is a PhD student and research associate at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology. After studying biological anthropology, European ethnology, and economic, social, and scientific history in Freiburg im Breisgau and in Frankfurt am Main, he is conducting research on the history of "social museums". He is interested in the transcontinental interconnectedness of museums and the ways in which "social museology" can be considered as a mode of contemporary socio-political knowledge production. Timotheus Kartmann is interested in a historic epistemology of ethnographic knowledge formats and in cultural anthropological perspectives on science, technology, and research that contribute to critical governance research.

Işıl Seçil Yıldırım is a PhD student and lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University in Frankfurt. She studied Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology and Science and Technology Studies at Goethe University. She worked as a curatorial project assistant in the CityLab exhibition “Frankfurt and Nazism” and on the content design of the Frankfurt History App in the Historical Museum Frankfurt. Seçil Yıldırım is particularly interested in participatory memory work in memory institutions.