Institute of Social Anthropology

Habilitations and doctorate

Actual positions

  • Professor (80% employment), Head of Research Programme "Governance in Education", Bern University of Teacher Education, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Switzerland T +41-31-309 27 54, ueli.hostettler@phbern.ch
  • Senior Researcher (20% employment), Head of Prison Research Group, Universität Bern, Institut für Strafrecht und Kriminologie, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Postfach 8573, CH-3001 Bern, Switzerland, T +41-31-631 55 83, ueli.hostettler@faculty.unibe.ch


Websites

Publications

https://boris.unibe.ch/view/contributors_bern/Hostettler=3AUeli=3A=3A.html
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0331-4203

Projects

https://prisonresearch.ch
http://p3.snf.ch/person-40620-Hostettler-Ueli
https://data.snf.ch/grants/person/40620

Education and academic degree

  • Habilitation Venia docendi in Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern, Philosophisch-historische Fakultät, 2016
  • Post-doc University of Florida, University College of Belize, University of Texas at Austin, Swiss National Science Foundation (#8210-050406, 36 months), 1997-2000
  • Dr. phil. Social Anthropology, University of Bern, 1996 (summa cum laude)
  • lic. phil.-hist. University of Bern, (Ethnology, Modern History & General Linguistics), 1991

 
Research interests

In education

  • Public school system and society
  • Educational leadership
  • Education in the prison context

In social anthropology

  • Economic anthropology, Peasant studies, Socioeconomic stratification
  • Multiethnic processes and Decolonization
  • Anthropology of the prison system


In methods

  • Quantitative and qualitative methods in social science research
  • Evaluation research

Regional interests

Mesoamerica, Lowland Maya Area (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala), Latin America, Switzerland


Language skills

German (native speaker), French, English & Spanish (fluent), Yucatec Maya (working knowledge)


Lehrveranstaltungen im

HS2018
Seminar: Strafen - Einsperren, resozialisieren, wegsperren: Seminar zur Anthropologie des Justizvollzugs
FS2022
Übung: Space-Time-Regimes: Ethnographische Forschung in "totalen” Institutionen