
Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser
Director
- Phone
- 031 631 8968
- sabine.strasser@anthro.unibe.ch
- Office
- S215
- Postal Address
- Lerchenweg 36, 3012 Bern
- Consultation Hour
- Tuesday 4 to 6 pm. Please sign up on the list at the office door.
She gained her doctorate in 1994 with a study of gender issues and concepts of obsession in a Turkish village on the Black Sea and in 2004 presented her post-doctoral thesis on the transnational politics of Turkish and Kurdish activists. She has been a visiting professor and scholar at various universities including the London School of Economics, the Middle East Technical University, Stanford University and the University of Vienna.
Research team: Luisa Piart, Gerhild Perl, Julia Rehsmann and Veronika Siegl
Research fields
Political Anthropology:
- Migration
- Transnational Studies
- Multiculturalism
- Citizenship
- Social and Religious Movements in Europe
- Globalization
Feminist Anthropology:
- Questions of Violence and Culture
- Intersectionality
- Diversity und Equality
- counter-hegemonic Strategies
News
- Recent Publication: Localising moralities: power and temporality in Southeastern Europe, Prof. Sabine Strasser & Dr. Jelena Tosic
- Co-coordinator of the SNIS project: WASH in health facilities in the context of genderised sanitation. How Indian and Ugandan health centres manage the sanitation needs of special users groups
- Konsulentin des Forschungsprojekts „Imame, Rapper, Cybermuftis“, Zentrum für Religionsforschung, Universität Luzern
- Migration Letters, Vol 11, No 3 (2014) Special issue: Turkish Migrants and Descendants in Austria mit einem Beitrag von Sabine Strasser: Repressive autonomy: discourses on and surveillance of marriage migration from Turkey to Austria
- Springer announces the publication of the edited volume: Kultur, Gesellschaft, Migration.
Current Research Projects
Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
- Transnational Biographies of Education. Young Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers and their Navigation through Shifting Social Realities in Switzerland and Turkey
- Intimate Uncertainties. Precarious Life and Moral Economy across European Borders
- Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom
Publications
Courses
Spring Semester 2019
Actual debates in social anthropology
Everday Islam
Master colloquia
PhD colloquia
Autumn Semester 2018
Introduction to the Anthropology of social Organisation
Integration, a panacea? Critical reflections of concepts, politics and affects
Master Colloquia
PhD Colloquia
Spring Semester 2018
Seminar: Actual Debates in Social Anthropology
Seminar: Screening Migration: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Master Colloquia
PhD Colloquia
IP CREOLE 2018
Autumn semester 2017
Seminar: Bordering: anthropological and feminist concepts of border and boundaries
CREOLE Exchange at Université Lumière Lyon 2
Master colloquia
Phd Colloquia