Lady Davis Research Fellow
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Further information: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/435569

Ben Kasstan is a medical anthropologist by training, and his research interests sit at the intersection of state, health and religion. For the past seven years Ben has been exploring how areas of sexuality and reproduction emerge as public (health) anxieties and as sites of intervention, especially concerning ethnic and religious minorities. The particular areas of controversy that Ben focuses on are abortion, vaccinations and equality/inclusion. Together with Lea Taragin-Zeller, Ben will be investigating the representation of ‘non-compliant’ communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a public anthropologist, Ben uses academic research to pursue social justice in public life and has appeared on the BBC World Service and has commented in Ha’aretz, Times of Israel, The Independent, Evening Standard, and NewsWeek. Ben is part of the editorial team at Anthropology & Medicine.

Selected publications:

• 2020. ‘I Didn’t Know How to be with my Husband’: State-Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England. Anthropology & Education Quarterly (with Lea Taragin-Zeller).
• 2020. Arbitrating Abortion: Sex selection and care work among abortion providers in England. Medical Anthropology (with Maya Unnithan).
• 2019. Making Bodies Kosher: The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England. Berghahn Books.
• 2018. Reproductive Rebellions in Britain and the Republic of Ireland: Contemporary and Past Abortion Activism and Alternative Sites of Care. Feminist Encounters (with Sarah Crook).

Research Fellow
Woolf Institute and ReproSoc (Reproductive Sociology Research Group), University of Cambridge

https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/people/lea-taragin-zeller; https://www.reprosoc.sociology.cam.ac.uk/directory/lea-taragin-zeller

Bio
Lea Taragin-Zeller is a social anthropologist. Situated at the intersection of the anthropology of religion, gender and bio-medicine, Lea’s research explores how ‘secular’ and scientific knowledge is negotiated among ethnic and faith minorities, influencing their decisions and raising new ethical dilemmas. More specifically, her research explores how religious minorities in both Israel (especially ultra-Orthodox Jews) and the UK (Jews and Muslims) integrate and reconcile frameworks of gender equality and science knowledge alongside faith, religious theology and authority. From contraception to abortions to genetic testing, she examines everyday decision-making vis-à-vis state-minority relations and transnational gender power dynamics. Lea is currently working on a new research project on Religion, Public Health and COVID-19 (together with Dr. Ben Kasstan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem). She is also a member of the interdisciplinary research group :”“Communicating Science among the Jewish Ultra-Orthodox in Israel: Journalistic Praxis and Audience Reception in Insular Communities” (together with Prof. Ayelet Baram-Tsabari, Technion;  Yael Rosenblum, Technion; Prof. Oren Golan and Prof. Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa, funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science and Technology). She has published in Medical Anthropology, Anthropology and Education Quarterly and serves as a section editor in Cambridge's journal of Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online.

Selected publications:

• 2020. Just a Cup of Tea: Jewish-Muslim Interfaith, Gender, and Social Capital in the UK. Nashim (forthcoming)
• 2020. ‘I Didn’t Know How to be with my Husband’: State-Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England. Anthropology & Education Quarterly (with Ben Kasstan).
• 2019. '"Conceiving God's Children": Toward a Flexible Model of Reproductive Decision-Making', Medical Anthropology, 38(4), 370-383.
• 2019. 'Towards an Anthropology of Doubt: the Case of Religious Reproduction in Orthodox Judaism', Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 43: 1-23

Additional link: https://cambridge.academia.edu/LeaTaraginZeller; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lea_Taragin-Zeller

Head of the Medical Anthropology Research Area
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin 
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/personen/professorinnen/dilger.html>

Hansjörg Dilger’s research interests include medical anthropology and global health, religion and religious diversity, schools and education, transnationalism and migration, and urban anthropology. Regionally, his research focuses on eastern and southern Africa as well as on migratory contexts in Germany. Between 1995 and 2006, Dilger conducted long-term fieldwork on HIV/AIDS and social relations in Tanzania, focusing on the dynamics of kinship- and church-based support in the context of rural-urban migration as well as on the identity politics and the limitations of collective action in urban NGOs. His more recent research on neo-Pentecostal churches and revivalist Muslim organizations in Dar es Salaam has explored the dynamics of moral and religious belonging, charismatic healing and body practices, and processes of spatialization and institutionalization in religiously diverse settings. Since 2015, Dilger has been part of a collective of refugee women, students, lecturers, and activists that has worked and published on the situations and experiences of female refugees in Berlin. Dilger is PI of the following ongoing research projects (all funded by German Research Foundation, DFG): "Governing Religious Diversity in Berlin: Affective Dynamics of In- and Exclusion in Urban Space" (within the collaborative research centre "Affective Societies", with Omar Kasmani and Dominik Mattes); "Religious Reform, Faith-Based Development and the Public Sphere in Sub-Saharan Africa (Lagos, Dar es Salaam and Cape Town)" (together with Abdulkader Tayob, University of Cape Town, Felician Tungaraza, University of Dar es Salaam, and Marloes Janson, SOAS University of London); and "Productive Pathologies: Professional Patients and the Commodification of Illness in Egypt" (with Mustafa Abdalla).

Selected publications:

• Dilger, Hansjörg, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon (eds.). 2020. Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Dilger, Hansjörg and Dominik Mattes. 2018. "Introduction: Im/Mobility and Dis/Connectivity in Medical Globalization: How global is Global Health?" In: Global Public Health 13 (3): 265-75. (Introduction to special issue, guest edited by D. Mattes and H. Dilger).
• Dilger, Hansjörg and Kristina Dohrn (eds.), in collaboration with International Women Space. 2016. Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin: Women’s Perspectives and Experiences. Berlin: Weißensee Verlag. 

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hansjoerg_Dilger>

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://en.sociology.huji.ac.il/people/norit-stadler 

Nurit Stadler’s research interests include fundamentalism, the Ultra-orthodox community, Greek-Orthodox and Roman Catholic rituals in Jerusalem, text-based communities, the veneration of Mary in Israel/Palestine, and the study of female saint shrines, sacred nature and sacred iconography. Stadler is the author of three books: Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World published with New York University Press, in 2008. This book is an analysis of the reconstruction of masculine in the fundamentalist world as a result of the challenges of modernity. It addresses these questions through an investigation of the redefinition of the family, work, the army and civil society in the Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva world in Israel. Stadler is also the author of A Well-Worn Tallus for a New Ceremony (2012) with Academic Studies Press (Brighton, MA). In this book she explored new aspects of voluntarism, citizenship, family life and the concept of freedom in the ultraorthodox culture today. Her third book Voices of the Ritual (Oxford University Press 2020) analyzes the revival of and manifestation of rituals at female saint shrines in the Holy Land. Since 2012 she has been involved with the project on sacred shrines in Israel/Palestine. In this project she studies various aspects of pilgrimage and veneration of sacred shrines, especially female shrines. Her comparative study of these shrines opens a set of questions about the centrality of fertility cults and female landscape at the age of modernity and technology of reproduction. Stadler is directing an Ethnographic Lab on issues of religion, sacredness, politics, borders and the nation state. In this, project students and researchers from around the world participate in studying and comparing ethnographies of sacred places.

Selected publications:

• 2020. Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• 2012. A Well-Worn Tallis for a New Ceremony: Trends in Israeli Haredi culture. Academic Studies Press.
• 2008. Yeshiva Fundamentalism: Piety, Gender and Resistance in the Ultra-Orthodox World. New York: New York University Press.

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nurit_Stadler; https://huji.academia.edu/NuritStadler

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://en.law.huji.ac.il/people/netta-barak-corren

Netta Barak-Corren is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.   She received her first dual-major degree in Law and Cognitive Science from the Hebrew University as the Valedictorian of her class and her Doctorate in Law from Harvard University. Netta’s research centers around empirical and behavioral analysis of public and constitutional law. She is particularly interested in questions relating to law and religion, equality, and conflicts of norms, both at the individual and societal levels.  Her research won numerous grants and awards, most notably the Gorni Prize for an Outstanding Junior Faculty in Public Law, the Birk prize for Excellence in Legal Studies, Stanford’s International Junior Faculty Forum, Harvard’s Sinclair Kennedy Fellowship, the Howard Raiffa Best Paper Prize, the Fisher-Sander Best Paper Prize, and the Menachem Goldberg Best Paper Award. Prior to academia, Netta clerked for the Chief Justice of Israeli Supreme Court, Hon. Dorit Beinish.

Selected publications:

• Netta Barak-Corren, Reexamining the evidence on Ultra-Orthodox attitudes and gender separation in academia. 49 MISHPATIM—HEBREW U. LAW REVIEW (2019) [in Hebrew].
• Netta Barak-Corren, Yuval Feldman, & Noam Gidron. The Provocative Effect of Law: Majority Nationalism and Minority Discrimination, 15(4) JOURNAL OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES 951-986 (2018).

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Netta_Barak-Corren

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
https://in.bgu.ac.il/humsos/soc-ant/en/pages/staff/yaelhd-en.aspx

Yael Hashiloni-Dolev is a sociologist of health and illness. She is a member of Israel’s National Bioethics Council and a co-president of the Israeli Society for the History & Philosophy of Science. Her areas of interest include new reproductive technologies, genetics, gender, bioethics, contemporary parenthood and posthumous reproduction. She has authored three books: A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany (Springer, 2007), The Fertility Revolution (Modan, 2013, in Hebrew), and New Reproductive Technologies: Social and Bio-Ethical Debates (Open University, in Hebrew). She published many articles on reprogenetics, sex selection, the moral status of the embryo and cryo-preservation. She is also a co-editor of Boas, H., Hashiloni-Dolev, Y., Davidovitch, N., Filc D. and Lavi, S. (Eds). 2018. Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-Legal, Political and Empirical Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Selected publications:

• Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. 2007. A Life (Un)Worthy of Living: Reproductive Genetics in Israel and Germany. Dordrecht: Springer. Under the Series: International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine.
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. 2006. Cultural Differences in Medical Risk Assessments during Genetic Prenatal Diagnosis: The Case of Sex Chromosome Anomalies in Israel and Germany. Medical Anthropology Quarterly
• Hashiloni-Dolev,  Y., & Shkedi, S. 2007. On new reproductive technologies and family ethics: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PDG) for sibling donors (SD) in Israel and Germany. Social Science and Medicine
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Y., & Weiner, N. 2008. Reproductive technologies and the moral status of the embryo: A view from Israel and Germany. Sociology of Health and Illness
• Hashiloni-Dolev, Y., and Raz, A. 2010. Between Social hypocrisy and social responsibility: Professional views of eugenics, disability and repro-genetics in Germany and Israel. New Genetics & Society

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yael_Hashiloni-Dolev

PhD candidate
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://sociology.huji.ac.il/people/בת-שבע-הס-0

Bat-sheva Hass is a PhD candidate at the department of Sociology and Anthropology, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main focus has been on anthropology of religion, anthropology of conversion, gender and religion. Specifically, her dissertation is an integration between anthropology of conversion, anthropology of religion, the politics of belonging, and politics of identity. The case study she is undertaking is a story of Dutch women who converted to Islam and how they perceive their sense of identity and belonging in their current and former lifestyles. In addition, Bat sheva works as a teaching assistant and teaches introduction to qualitative methodology at the department of sociology and anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Bat sheva also works as the ERC coordinator at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Currently she coordinates two ERC projects: Digital Values and Mediating the Future: The Social Dynamics of Public Projections- PROFECI. On both projects she is in charge of the budgets, does administrative as well as academic tasks, including quantitative coding etc.

Selected publications:

• Hass, Bat Sheva. 2020. The Burka Ban - Islamic dress, Freedom and Choice in the Netherlands in light of the 2019 Burka Ban Law, Religions 2020, 11(2), 93-127.
• Hass, Bat Sheva.; Lutek, H. 2019. Faith and Fashion: Islamic dress and Identity. Religions 2019, 10(6), 359-389.
• Hass, Bat Sheva; Lutek, H. 2018. The Dutch inside the ‘Moslima’ and the ‘Moslima’ inside the Dutch: Processing the Religious Experience of Muslim Women in The Netherlands. Societies 2018 (4), 8, 123158

Assistant Professor
Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth
https://www.ethnologie.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/Liebelt-Claudia/index.php

Claudia Liebelt’s research foci are in the Anthopology of the Body and the Senses, Political Anthropology, Gender and Sexualities, Care and Intimate Labour, as well as Islam and Secularity. Claudia is especially interested in debates on the biopolitics of beauty, embodied normativities, postsecularism, new materialities, as well as categorizations of race, class and gender, with a regional focus on the Middle East and Northern Africa. As part of a Heisenberg Position at the University of Bayreuth, she is currently conducting research on the "Olfactories of Hygiene," that is, the social configurations of bodily hygiene, smell, and the role of hand sanitizers during the COVID-19 pandemics in Turkey and Germany.

Selected publications:

• Forthcoming. Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
• Forthcoming. From Manicurist to Aesthetic Vanguard: the Biopolitics of Beauty and the Changing Role of Beauty Service Work in Turkey. In: Tate, Sh. and E. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (eds.) Palgrave Handbook on Race and Gender. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Forthcoming, Negotiating “Islamic” Beauty in Turkey, or Conceptualizing the Complex Entanglements Between Beauty and Religion. In: Craig, M. (ed.) Beauty Politics (Routledge Companion Series). London, New York: Routledge.
• 2019. Aesthetic Citizenship in Istanbul: on manufacturing beauty and negotiating belonging through the body in urban Turkey. Citizenship Studies 23(7): 686–702.
• 2019. Secular self-fashioning against “Islamization:” aesthetic body modification and female subjectivities among the secular middle class in Istanbul. In: Scheer, M., Fadil, N. and B. Schepelern Johansen (eds). Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions: European Configurations. Bloomsbury, pp. 109–22. 

Additional links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Liebelt2; https://uni-bayreuth.academia.edu/ClaudiaLiebelt

Postdoctoral Fellow
Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://buberfellows.huji.ac.il/people/mirjam-lücking

Mirjam Lücking is an anthropologist, working on contemporary expressions of religion and politics in Indonesia and the Middle East, with ethnographic research on various forms of transnational mobility, such as pilgrimage, tourism, and labor migration. She is currently affiliated with the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Selected publications:

• Lücking, Mirjam. 2020/forthcoming. Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press.
• Lücking, Mirjam. 2019. “Travelling with the Idea of Taking Sides: Indonesian Pilgrimages to Jerusalem.” Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 175 (2-3): 196–224.
• Lücking, Mirjam. 2017. “Working in Mecca. How Informal Pilgrimage-Migration from Madura, Indonesia, to Saudi Arabia Challenges State Sovereignty.” European Journal of East Asian Studies 16 (2): 248–74.

Additional link: https://shamash.academia.edu/MirjamL%C3%BCcking

Postdoctoral Fellow
Collaborative Research Center 'Affective Societies' and the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/personen/wiss_mitarb_u_koord_aus_drittmitteln/mattes.html

Dominik Mattes is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Affective Societies” at Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2014, he has been co-chairing the German Anthropological Association’s Work Group Medical Anthropology. His book, Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities. Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania (Berghahn, 2019) examines the political-economic conditions of providing antiretroviral medicines, the manifold intricacies of living a life with these pharmaceuticals, and the interference of religious discourse and practice with the biomedical therapy in Northeastern Tanzania. Aside from Medical Anthropology and Critical Global Health, Dominik’s work is situated at the intersection of religion and migration. While his first postdoctoral project explored notions of belonging among the congregants of a West-African Pentecostal church in Berlin, his current research focuses on how migration-related religious diversity is affectively governed in the same city.

Selected publications:

• 2019. Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities. Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania. New York, Oxford: Berghahn.
• 2020. Dominik Mattes, Bernhard Hadolt and Brigit Obrist. .2020. Introduction. Rethinking sociality and health through transfiguration. In: Medicine Anthropology Theory 7(1): 66-86.
• 2018. Hansjörg Dilger and Dominik Mattes. Im/mobility and dis/connectivity in medical globalization. How global is Global Health? In: Global Public Health 13(3): 265-275.
• 2015. Hansjörg Dilger, Susann Huschke and Dominik Mattes. Introduction. Ethics, epistemology, and engagement: Encountering values in medical anthropology. In: Medical Anthropology 34(1): 1-10. 

Additional links: https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=researcher&query=Dominik%20Mattes; ​​​​​​​https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/DominikMattes

PhD Candidate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/personen/doktorand_innen/probst.html

Ursula Probst is a PhD student at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin) investigating (labour) migration, the social production of bodies, and health in urban settings with a particular focus on the commercialisation of sexuality, intimate labor and the sex industry. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with migrants from Eastern Europe who are/were working in different sectors of the sex industry in Berlin, she is currently analysing the racialised and sexualised dimensions of so-called "Europeanisation" processes and (Eastern) European (non-)belongings as an embodied practice.

Selected publications:

• Probst, Ursula. Forthcoming. Vielschichtige Lebenswelten, komplexe Vulnerabilitäten. Zur Lebens- und Arbeitssituation der Frauen am Straßenstrich im Berliner Kurfürstenkiez. [Multilayered lives, complex vulnerabilities. On the living and working conditions of women doing street based sex work in Berlins Kurfürstenkiez neighborhood] Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung.
• Probst, Ursula. 2015. Von käuflichem Sex, Opfern und Moral – Perspektiven von Sexarbeiterinnen auf Rechte, Sexualität und Professionalisierung im Arbeitsalltag in Berlin. [On commercial sex, victims and morality. Perspectives of sex workers on rights, sexuality and professionalisation in everyday work lives in Berlin] Weißensee Verlag.
• Probst, Ursula. 2015. Support for Sex Workers as Occupational Support? Research For Sex Work 15, 19-22.
• Huschke, Susann, P. Shirlow, D. Schubotz, E. Ward, U. Probst und C. Ní Dhónaill. 2014. Research into Prostitution in Northern Ireland. Research Report.

Additional links: https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/UrsulaProbst; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ursula_Probst

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religion & Ethnic Diversity
https://www.mmg.mpg.de/person/99020

Vanessa Rau is an interdisciplinary social scientist/sociologist with a special interest in Religion and Secularism, Migration and the Politics of Difference. Her current research concerns, “Civil Society Organizations and the Challenges of Migration and Diversity: Agents of Change” especially in the Kontext of “Disability and Sexual Minorities”. Vanessa completed her PhD at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, and focused on migration and diaspora, religion, secularities and the politics of identity in diverse urban spaces. Her dissertation “Contesting the Secular and Converting Space in Berlin? Becoming Jewish in an Urban Scene” examines a newly emerging Jewish-Hebrew scene in Berlin and investigates how religious and secular belonging are negotiated under specific discursive representations. Vanessa holds a BA and a PhD from the University of Cambridge as well as a MA from Humboldt and Freie Universität, Berlin.

Selected publications: 

• Hensold, J., Kynes, J.A., Öhlmann, P., Rau, V., Schinagl, R.C., Taleb, A. (Eds.) 2020. "Religion in Motion. Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World". Springer.
• Rau, V. 2019. Turning the Kaleidoscope and pluralism inside-out: the case of Berlin’s Jewish scene. In J.-J. Bock (Ed.), Emergent religious pluralisms (pp. 195-221). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature.
• Rau, V. 2016. Exotisierung, Faszination und Befremdung. Ein Blick auf Migration und Begegnung zwischen Israel und Deutschland. In O. Glöckner, & J. H. Schoeps (Eds.), Deutschland, die Juden und der Staat Israel. Eine politische Bestandsaufnahme. (pp. 216-246). Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag.
• Rau, V. 2014. Vehementer Säkularismus als Antisemitismus? Aus Politik und Zeitgeschehen, APuZ, 28-30, 31-38.

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.visual-anthropology.fu-berlin.de/staff/External_Lecturer1/Selim/index.html

Nasima Selim holds a doctoral degree in Social and Cultural anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is a former mental health physician with two master’s degrees, in medical anthropology and public health. Her research and teaching interests include healing across religion and medicine, global health and well-being, affective ecologies, migratory practices, ethnographic theories, methods, and writing. Nasima is a spokesperson of the working group public anthropology and a member of the working group medical anthropology at the German Anthropological Association. She is a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh and a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. Nasima is a member of the editorial team of #Witnessing Corona, a collaborative blog-series launched in March 2020.

Selected publications:

• Selim, Nasima. In press. “Letter from the (Un)Seen Virus: (Post) Humanist Perspectives in Corona Times.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale COVID-19 Forum.
• Selim, Nasima. Mustafa Abdalla, Lilas Alloulou, Mohamed Alaedden Halli, Seth M. Holmes, Maria Ibiß, Gabi Jaschke, and Johanna Gonçalves Martín. 2018.          “Coming together in the so-called refugee crisis: A collaboration among refugee newcomers, migrants, activists, and anthropologists in Berlin.” Action in Anthropology 25 (3): 34-44.
• Thomas Stodulka, Nasima Selim, and Dominik Mattes. 2018. “Affective scholarship: Doing anthropology with epistemic emotions.” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 46 (4): 519–536.
• Selim, Nasima. 2015. “Sufi body practices and therapeutic politics in Berlin.” In Gritt Klinkhammer and Eva Tolksdorf, eds. Somatisierung des Religiösen. Empirische Studien zum rezenten religiösen Heilungs -und Therapiemarkt, 237-282. Bremen: Universität Bremen. 

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nasima_Selim

Postdoctoral Fellow
Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
https://buberfellows.huji.ac.il/people/guy-shalev

Guy Shalev is a medical anthropologist interested in the intersections of professional and national politics in the Israeli health sphere. His research considers the everyday border-work that marks the lives of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli public health system and ask how medical expertise and ethics play a role in ethnonational politics both within and without the medical field.

Selected publication:

• Shalev, Guy. 2016. A Doctor’s Testimony: Medical Neutrality and the Visibility of Palestinian Grievances in Jewish-Israeli Publics. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 40(2), 242-262.

Additional link: https://unc.academia.edu/guyshalev

Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/ethnologie/forschung/arbeitsstellen/anthropologie_der_emotionen/personen/poser-anita/index.html

Anita von Poser’s research interests pertain to the field of psychological anthropology with a special focus on affects, emotions, belonging, and empathy as well as migration, aging, care, and the life course. Her current research involves ethnographic research with Vietnamese-born social workers in Berlin as well as trans-disciplinary collaborative work on the affective efforts of migration in clinical settings and everyday lifeworlds with colleagues from the field of cultural psychiatry and global mental health.

Selected publications: 

• Nguyen, Main Huong, Jörg-Christian Lanca, Eric Hahn, Anita von Poser, Edda Willamowski, Ketja Wingenfeld, Roland Burian, Albert Diefenbacher & Thi Minh Tam Ta (2020). Perceived Emotional Distress among Vietnamese Outpatients in Germany . An Interdisciplinary, Mixed-method Study. Transcultural Psychiatry.
• von Poser, Anita & Edda Willamowski (2020). The Power of Shared Embodiment. Renegotiating Non-/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry.
• von Poser, Anita Edda Heyken, Thi Minh Tam Ta & Eric Hahn (2019). Emotion Repertoires. In Jan Slaby & Christian von Scheve (eds.), Affective Societies. Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, pp. 241-251.
• Heyken, Edda, Anita von Poser, Eric Hahn, Thi Main Huong Nguyen, Jörg-Christian Lanca & Thi Minh Tam Ta (2019). Researching Affects in the Clinic and Beyond. Multi-perspectivity, Ethnography, and Mental Health-Care Intervention. In Antje Kahl (ed.), Analyzing Affective Societies. Methods and Methodologies, New York: Routledge, pp. 249-264.

Additional link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anita_Poser

Research Associate
Affective Societies, Freie Universität Berlin
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/EddaHeyken

Edda Willamowski is a Sociocultural Anthropologist trained at Freie Universität Berlin, University of Münster and Radboud University Nijmegen. In her dissertation, she analyzes the complex interconnections of affects, belonging, memory, and silence in the lives of elderly Vietnamese refugees from a psychological-anthropological perspective. Since 2015, she has been Research Associate of the Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Co-existence in Mobile Worlds, where she works within an anthropological-psychiatric research project as part of a collaboration between FU Berlin and Charité Berlin.

Selected publications:

• 2020. The Power of Shared Embodiment. Renegotiating Non-/belonging and In/exclusion in an Ephemeral Community of Care. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (with Anita von Poser).
• 2020. Migration-related emotional distress among Vietnamese psychiatric patients in Germany – An interdisciplinary, mixed methods study. Transcultural Psychiatry (with Nguyen, Main Huong and Jörg-Christian Lanca, Eric Hahn, Anita von Poser, Katja Wingenfeld, Ronald Burian, Albert Diefenbacher, Thi Minh Tam Ta).
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• 2019. Researching Affects in the Clinic and Beyond. Multi-perspectivity, Ethnography, and Mental Health-Care Intervention. In Antje Kahl (eds.), Analyzing Affective Societies. Methods and Methodologies, New York: Routledge, pp.249-264 (with Anita von Poser, Eric Hahn, Thi Main Huong Nguyen, Jörg-Christian Lanca & Thi Minh Tam Ta). 
• 2019. Emotion Repertoires. In Jan Slaby & Christian von Scheve (eds.), Affective Societies. Key Concepts. New York: Routledge. pp.241-251.
• 2019. Belonging. In Jan Slaby & Christian von Scheve (eds.) Affective Societies. Key Concepts. New York: Routledge, pp. 300-309 (with Dominik Mattes, Omar Kasmani & Marion Acker).
• 2019. Unravelling Silence from a Psychological Anthropological Perspective. URL: http://anthropologyofsilence.com/

Additional links: https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/EddaHeyken; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edda_Heyken