Hansjörg Dilger

Biography

July-August 2015: Residential Fellow at Centro Incontri Humani in Ascona October 2014: Visiting Fellow at the African Center for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand March 2014: Guest professor at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna February 2013- University professor for social and cultural anthropology, Institute of Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin February 2010 Second appointment as junior professor (after positive interim evaluation by external experts and the department of political and social sciences) 2007-2013 Juniorprofessor at the Institute for Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin. Focus: Religious Diversity in Transnational Contexts 2005-09 Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida. Focus: African Health and Society. (Leave of 2007-2009) 2002-2005 Research assistant and lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin 1999-2002 Research assistant at the DFG-project "Living with HIV / AIDS in Tanzania" (Director: Prof. Dr. Ute Luig), Institute for Ethnology, Freie Universität Berlin

Research Interest

content: religious ethnology (especially Pfingstkirchen and Islam); Medicineethnology (especially HIV / AIDS, anthropology of biomedicine, transnationalisation of health, medicine and healing); Gender / masculinity and related research; Transnationality and migration; Urban Ethnology; Anthropology of education and learning Regional: Eastern and Southern Africa (especially Tanzania and South Africa); Migration relationships Current research project: "Religion, state and education: Christian and Muslim schools in the context of neo-liberal transformation processes in Dar es Salaam"