Tenured associate professors | Sociocultural anthropology
Short bio
Elisabeth Tauber is Associate Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology. She received her PhD (2007) in Sociocultural Anthropology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in a joint project with the University of Florence. Her doctoral research was funded by an FP5 fellowship and the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Berlin). She was a Thyssen Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the LMU Munich and has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork with semi-nomadic Romani people, within European institutions, and currently with various actors involved in European grasslands. She has published extensively on Romani marriage, nomadism, gift economies, ethnography and archives, and more recently on grassland socialities. She is a co-founder of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology (MFEA) and leads several research projects on ethnography and archives and on how to enhance dialogue between species.
17204 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Culture · DE
96114 · M-DEA/01 · Master in Eco-Social Design · EN
97133 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Art · EN
97133 · M-DEA/01 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Design · EN
15144E · PhD Programme in Education and Social Sciences · EN
95204 · PhD Programme in Experimental Research through Design, Art and Technologies · EN
Nomadism, marginality, Romani people, marriage, gift economies, gender, archive and ethnography, grasslands, grass socialities, species in dialogue. Elisabeth Tauber works in interdisciplinary teams with ecologists, historians and designers.
Co-coordinatior of the Malinowski Forum for Ethnography and Anthropology. https://mfea.projects.unibz.it/