Containerships and maritime working lives, labour and livelihoods, colonialism and the military.
Contact: Elisabeth Schober
SAI Project Proposals
Do you need inspiration for the project outline or project description? Our research staff have compiled some of their research interests in the form of project proposals for master's projects.
Please feel free to reach out to the project's contact person if you have questions. We would love to talk to you!
See also opportunities at other institutions and companies, some even offer financial support for field work. There are also projects in the Science Shop with keyword "Social Anthropology".
Marianne Lien suggests master projects on political ecology, land disputes, extractivism, Sápmi and indigenous issues, urban and community gardening, biodiversity, domestication, aquaculture, human-animal relations, economic anthropology and work environments, nutritional anthropology and food studies.
Nefissa Naguib suggests master projects on food, new economies and industry, diasporas, refugees, religion and environmentalism
Contact: Nefissa Naguib
The research project Private Lives: Embedding Sociality at Digital ‘Kitchen Tables’ studies sociality as everyday lives are increasingly digitalized through social media and digital platforms.
Contact: Marianne Lien.
Contact: Theodoros Rakopoulos
Images as source of knowledge, research tool and mode of representation.
Contact: Arnd Schneider
Wenzel and his colleague suggests master’s projects in the anthropology of health and the environment, of protective infrastructures and technologies, and not least of the ambivalent traces of modernity in Africa. Read more about the projects that Wenzel is part of below.
Contact: Paul Wenzel Geissler