Prof. Dr. Bettina Beer

Ethnologin, Kultur- und Sozialanthropologin

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Curriculum Vitae

2024

Resident of the Swiss Anthropological Association

2022 – 2025

Chair of the European Society for Oceanists

2022

Field research in the Philippines in the context of the research project "De-Kinning and Re-kinning? Estrangement, Divorce, Adoption and the Transformation of Kin Networks" (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

2017/18

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

2017

Guest professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna

2016 – 2021

Joint headship – with Prof. Dr. Martina Caroni and Prof. Dr. Stephanie Klein – of the University Research Priority group "Family Change in the Context of Migration and Globalisation" at the University of Lucerne

2016

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea in the context of a research project on International capital and local inequality: A longitudinal ethnography of the Wampar under the impact of a copper-gold mine and a timber biomass energy plant (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)

2014

Co-editor of "Sociologus. Journal for Social Anthropology"

2013

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on mining and social transformations

2011 – 2014

Leibniz-Chair at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT, Bremen)

2011 – 2012

Member of the ZiF research group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition. Re-Integrating Anthropology into the Cognitive Sciences", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University

2009

Field research in the Philippines, focusing on the use of Social Network Sites and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea on interethnic relations and transcultural kinship (funded by the Swiss National Sience Foundation)

2008

Professor of Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

2006

Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg

2003/04

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea, focusing on a) interethnic relations and b) the senses in their cultural context (funded by the German Research Foundation)

2002 – 2005

Heisenbergstipendium, Fellowship of the German Research Foundation

2002

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Zentral-Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation)

2002

Fellowship of the Maecenia Foundation (Frankfurt), for a Study of Women researchers in German Anthropology

2001/02

Visiting lecturer, Cultural Studies, University of Lüneburg

2001

Habilitation at University of Hamburg; Thesis Concepts of the body in interethnic relations and theories of race

1999/2000

Field research among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea and in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) (funded by the German Research Foundation)

1999

Field research in Loay, Bohol (The Philippines); filming & photography of Easter celebrations

1998 – 2000

Habilitation stipend from the German Research Foundation for the project: "Physical differences in interethnic relations and their meaning for theories of race."

1998

Prize 1997 of the Hamburg Science Foundation (Hamburgische Wissenschaftliche Stiftung)

1996/97

Field research in The Philippines (Bohol, Central Visayas) on: "The Ati: Interethnic relations and survival strategies among an ethnic minority;" and among the Wampar of Papua New Guinea (funded by the German Research Foundation)

1996 – 1998

Postdoctoral Fellowship from the German Research Foundation

1996

Field research in The Philippines (Grant from the Hamburg Science Foundation)

1995

Ph.D in Anthropology, University of Hamburg; Thesis: German-Philippines marriages; matrimony and the migration of women.

1993/94

Field research in The Philippines on interethnic marriage and migration (Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD)

1993 – 1995

Doctoral Stipend from University of Hamburg

1992 – 1996

Research on marriage migration in the Philippine community in Hamburg

1992

Masters Thesis: Anthropological work on interethnic marriage in pre-industrial societies.

1986 – 1992

Studies in Anthropology, Spanish & Folklore, University of Hamburg

1966

Born in Frankfurt- am- Main, Germany

Membership of Learned Societies and Editorial Boards
2017

Editorial board of "Paideuma. Zeitschrift für Kulturkunde"

2014

Scientific committee of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)
Editorial board of "Asia Pacific Anthropology"

2013

Co-editor of "Sociologus", member of the editorial board since 2006
www.duncker-humblot.de

2011 – 2012

ZiF Research Group "The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition", Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld.

2010

Editorial board of "Methoden-Lexikon für die Sozialwissenschaft". VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

2009 – 2014

Board of the SEG (Swiss Ethnological Society)

2004 – 2008

Research group, "Borders and crossings" of the Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2003 – 2008

Member of The Young Academy of the the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities/The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Junge Akademie der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)

AAA (American Anthropological Association)
ASAO (Association of Social Anthropologists in Oceania)
DGV (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde)
Esfo (European Society of Oceanists)
SEG (Schweizer Ethnologische Gesellschaft)