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anthropology of the body, senses, care, gender, sexuality, religion

Biography

Claudia Liebelt is a professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. Her primary research interests are in the anthropology of the body and the senses, gender and sexuality, care and intimacy, as well as pilgrimage and Islam in Turkey and the Middle East. She is the author of Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities (Syracuse UP, 2023) and Caring for the ‘Holy Land’: Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel (Berghahn, 2011) and has edited Beauty and the Norm: Debating Standardization in Bodily Appearance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), as well as a special journal issue on “Gendering ‘Everyday Islam’” (with Pnina Werbner, Contemporary Levant, 2018). Her articles appeared in Citizenship Studies, Journal of the Middle East Women’s Studies, Ethnos and Feminist Review. She is the review editor of Sociologus: Journal for Social Anthropology.

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Employment (4)

Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2021-08-01 to present | Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
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University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

2010-04 to 2021-07-31 | Assistant Professor (Chair for Social Anthropology )
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Freie Universität Berlin Universitätsbibliothek: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2019-10 to 2020-03 | Guest Professor for Gender and Diversity Studies (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology)
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Keele University School of Law, Politics & Justice: Keele, Staffordshire, GB

2007-07 to 2009-06
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

2019-06 | Dr. habil. and venia legendi in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Faculty of Cultural Studies)
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Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt, DE

2010-11 | Dr. phil. Social Anthropology (Seminar für Ethnologie)
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University of Cologne: Cologne, DE

2003-08 | MPhil Cultural and Social Anthropology (Institut für Ethnologie)
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Professional activities (4)

German Anthropological Association: Berlin, DE

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GAA Working Group "Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology" : Berlin, DE

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EASA European Association of Social Anthropologists: London , GB

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American Anthropological Association: Arlington, VA, US

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Funding (4)

Olfactory Belongings: Contested Scents in Urban Publics

2023 to 2027 | Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, DE)
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Aesthetic Citizenship: Formations of the Gendered Self and Imaginations of Urban Modernity in the Chinese Periphery

2020-01-01 to present | Grant
German Research Foundation (Bonn, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 433753905
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Gender, Body, Beauty: Transnational Formations of the Self

2020-01-01 to present | Grant
German Research Foundation (Bonn, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 433738356
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Aesthetic body modifications and feminity in a global city: cultures of beauty in Istanbul (Turkey)

2012-01-01 to 2018-12-31 | Grant
German Research Foundation (Bonn, DE)
GRANT_NUMBER: 226148395
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