Head of the Medical Anthropology Research Area
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin 
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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. 

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