Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Curriculum Vitae

 

Gertrud Hüwelmeier studied Social Anthropology, Philosophy and German Studies at the Free University in Berlin, (MA. 1986), earned her PhD in Social Anthropology at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen (1996) and completed her studies with a habilitation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2003.


She held visiting professorships at the Philipps-University in Marburg (2007 and 2009) and was a research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Religious Diversity, Göttingen (2009/10) and at the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity, Göttingen (2011 /2012).


To date, she received six research grants funded by the German Research Foundation, on

“Gender, Migration and Modernity” (1998-2000), 

"Transnational Religion and Globalization" (2001-2005),

“Transnational Religious Networks and New Migration" (2005-2010),

"The Global Bazaar" (2011-2015), 

“Religion, Media, and Materiality. Spiritual Economies in Southeast Asia” (2015-2018),

 "Urban Ecologies in Southeast Asia - Humans, Environment and Ghosts in the City“ (2018-2023).


She was a member of the Research Network "Plural Ecologies. Anthropological Perspectives on Southeast Asia", funded by the German Reseach Foundation (2015-2018)