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Expert
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
websites: http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/knoerr
http://www.academianet.de/alias/Profil/PD-Dr-Jacqueline-Knoerr/1037987University Education & Academic Degrees:
Habilitation (Dr. habil./PD) 2006, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
PhD in Social Anthropology 1994, University of Bayreuth
PhD scholar at the Graduate School "Intercultural Relations in Africa" (linked to the SFB "Identity in Africa") (1990-1994)
Study of Social Anthropology, Political Sciences and English Philology, University of Cologne (1984-1988), M.A. in Social Anthropology 1989
Study of Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine (1983)
Study of Social Anthropology and Political Sciences, University of Hamburg (1981-1983)
Grants & Honors:
Allocation of a W2 position, Special C3/W2 Programme "Promotion of Excellent Female Scientists at the Max Planck Society" (2004)
Inclusion in AcademiaNet, Internet database for excellent researchers / Internetportal für exzellente Wissenschaftlerinnen (http:www.academianet.de) upon nomination by the Max Planck Society (2010)
Lise Meitner Grant (Habilitation grant) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Research, North-Rhine-Westphalia (2001-03)
Grant to conduct bibliographical and archival research at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C./USA (2001)
Nomination for the "Bennigsen-Förderpreis", the highest scientific award of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia (1999)
Postdoctoral grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as member of the Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) "Conflicts in Contexts of Social and Cultural Diversity", University of Münster (1994-96)
PhD grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG) as member of the Interdisciplinary Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) "Intercultural Relations in Africa" (linked to the SFB "Identity in Africa"), University of Bayreuth (1990-93)
Foreign exchange scholarship, awarded by the Academic Foreign Office, University of Hamburg to study at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) (1983)
Thematic and Regional Specializations and Interests:
a) thematic
Integration and differentiation in contexts of social and cultural diversity; Migration; Diaspora; Expatriates; Repatriates; Globalization; Urban sociology and anthropology; Conflict and (re-)integration studies; Religious and ethnic identifications in transnational and postcolonial contexts; Local, transnational and global exchange; African-European, African-Asian, Asian-European exchange; Identity politics; exclusion versus inclusion; Postcolonial nationhood in comparative perspective; Nation- and statehood "from below"; Creolization and creole identities; Creolization versus pidginization; Construction of home and belonging; Childhood and migration; Ethnicization and indigenization; Language and identiy; (Capital) cities as representations of postcolonial diversity; The North-South divide in the production of social science theory and methodology; Childhood and youth in comparative perspective
b) regional: Africa: West Africa, (more recently:) Namibia, South Africa Asia: Indonesia Europe: Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium
Academic Positions and Teaching Experience:
a) in Germany
Professor of social anthropology, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, (2008/09)
Senior Lecturer (Privatdozentin), Institute for Social Anthropology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (since 2006)
Member of the Graduate School (Graduiertenzentrum) "Society and Culture in Motion" (SCM), Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (since 2005)
Head of Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) (since 2004)
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) (2003-2004)
Lecturer at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig (2004/05)
Scientific Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Research School (IRS) "Southeast Asian Studies", University of Münster (1997-1999) (financed by the Ministry of Science and Research, NRW)
Lecturer, Free University of Berlin, Institute for Sociology (1996/97)
Postdoc, Interdisciplinary Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) "Conflicts in Contexts of Social and Cultural Diversity", University of Münster (1995/96)
Lecturer, University of Cologne, Institute for Social Anthropology (1994/95)
b) internationally
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology & Centre for Society, Technology and Development, McGill University, Montreal (April 2008-September 2009)
Visiting Professor at the Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (DAN), (August-September 2007)
Visiting Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington (December 2006)
Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon (November 2006)
Visiting Fellow at the University of Indonesia/Jakarta (2000-02)
Visiting Fellow at the University of Sierra Leone, Freetown/Sierra Leone (1991-92)
Key activities
- Asylum
- Education and migration
- Flight
- Integration politics
- Intercultural Life
- Intercultural education
- Migration and gender
- Migration politics in Europe
- Migration politics nationally
- Migration research
- Minorities
- Non-discrimination/equal treatment/conflict resolution
- Professional/social/cultural integration
- Racism/xenophobia
Publications
- Knörr, J. (in press) Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
- Knörr, J. (2010): "Contemporary Creoleness, or: The World in Pidginization?" Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 6, December 2010: 731-759 (lead article).
- Knörr, J. (2009): "Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children", in: Report of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe, European Science Foundation, February 2009: 23-28.
- Knörr, J. (2005): Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency (editor). Bielefeld & Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers.
- Knörr, J. (2000): Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives. (co-edited with B. Meier). Frankfurt a.M. and New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin’s Press.
Contact
Max Planck Institute for Social AnthropologyProf. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle
Germany
http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/index.html