PhD Projects

Ongoing PhD Projects:


  • Independent Art in Vietnam Since the 1990s. Political Power for a Civil Society? (Bui Kim Dinh, since 2015)
  • ​Making the city-of-uncertainty work: Cityness, the flow of things and precarious livelihoods in Jakarta (Nurman Nowak, research assistant, since 2018)
  • Forschen und Ausstellen in der Ethnologie (Lisa Ludwig, since 2018)
  • Exilic Materiality: Forced-Migrants Interacting with Humanitarian Materiality in Refugee Camps in Iran and Germany (Maliheh Bayat Tork, since 2019)



Completed PhD Projects