Claudia Böhme
- Social & Cultural Anthropology
Areas of Expertise:
Africa/East Africa; Media anthropology; Transnational migration and social media; Popular culture/Film; Educational ecosystems, MINT education for youth
Membership:
since
2021
Contact
Leibniz Institute for Educational Media & Georg Eckert Institute (GEI), Germany
Department of Sociology/Anthropology
Universitätsring 15
54296 Trier
Germany
+49 531 59099-402
claudia.boehme(at)gei.de
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About me
I am a post-doc researcher at Trier University, Germany, investigating the influence of social media and smartphones on the development of transit sites of migration and their role in the process of confidence-building, with a focus on refugees from East Africa. Moreover, I investigate the challenges of the current Covid-19 pandemic for people in displacement and how they perceive and deal with the pandemic. I contribute to AGYA with my anthropological expertise and long experience of fieldwork in Africa. Becoming part of AGYA’s large network of scholars from Arab countries and Germany enables me to find partners for a fruitful exchange of ideas for research on Arab-German and African-Arab relations in the field of migration, social media, and popular culture.
At AGYA, I can find new partners for research cooperation at the universities that are part of the AGYA network and friends to improve my Arabic.
Academic career
| 2023 - today | Postdoctoral Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Educational Media/Georg Eckert Institute Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2020 - 2023 | Postdoctoral researcher in DFG-funded project: “Trust Building and Future Construction via Smartphones and Social Media at Transit Locations of Transnational Migration with the Example of Refugees from East Africa”, Chair of Anthropology, University of Trier, Germany |
| 2015 - 2018 | Academic Assistant at the Chair of Anthropology, Trier University, Germany |
| 2012 | PhD in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany |
| 2010 - 2015 | Academic Assistant at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig |
| 2006 - 2010 | Academic Assistant at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany |
| 2005 | MA in Anthropology and African Languages, University of Hamburg, Germany |
- My Commitment to AGYA
- Member of the AGYA Steering Committee 2021-22
On a personal note
Must read in my discipline:
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai
Favourite novel:
Heinrich Steinfest (2014), Der Allesforscher
The scientist from my country you should know:
Georg Forster (Anthropology)
