Curriculum Vitae
Jonas Tinius studied social anthropology at the University of Cambridge (2009-2012), where he also completed a PhD (2012-2016) on German theatre, migration, and Haltung. From 2016-2020, he was post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), funded by Sharon Macdonald's Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2020-2025, he was scientific coordinator and postdoctoral research fellow in Cultural Anthropology in the ERC Consolidator grant project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism, directed by Markus Messling, at Saarland University. He held visiting research and teaching posts at the Universität zu Köln, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan, the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute.
He was founding co-convenor of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) with Clare Foster, the Anthropology and the Arts network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) with Roger Sansi, and the research group of the PostHeimat theatre production network funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, with Ruba Totah. Since 2025, he is secretary of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and co-convenor of the EASA network colleex - collaboratory for ethnographic experimentation, together with Adolfo Estalella, Elisabeth Luggauer, and Maka Suarez.