Co-Head of the research collaboration “Contesting Knowledge Formations in a Multi-Polar World"
Working group “Understandings of Religion(s) and Modes of Belonging”
Research Foci
Affect and Emotion
Education, Economy, and Environment
Childhood and Youth
Ethnographic Methods and Collaborations
Marginalization, Stigmatization, and Mental Health
Psychological Anthropology
Public Anthropology
Social Inequalities and Mobilities
Visual Anthropology
CV
Academic Education
Dr. phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology (magna cum laude), Institue of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
M.A. (mit Auszeichnung) (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Media and Communication Studies), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Göttingen, DE
Project Director “The Researchers’ Affects”, International Research Group (VolkswagenStiftung), anchored at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
EURIAS Junior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Amsterdam, NL
Assistant and Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
External Functions
Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität - Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Annual Winter School, Culture, Psychology, and Qualitative Research (in collaboration with Aalborg University) , Co-organizer)
European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA): Helsinki, FI (Mind Embedded and Embodied–Futures of Psychological Anthropology, 1st Biennial Conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA), Conference co-organizer)
EMERGE! Countering Pandemic Somnambulism through Connectivities, Comparisons, and Collaborations, Shaping Asia Network (DFG): Bonn, DE (Co-organizer)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (think tank on data management and archiving in universities, teaching and librariesteaching and libraries (Lenkungskreis Data Management and Data Literacy) , Member)
DFG-Network Shaping Asia: Bonn, DE (Decentralizing knowledge: Alternative practices and cultures of learning and schooling in Asia, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE)
BGAEU–Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte: Berlin, DE (Deputy director)
BGAEU–Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte: Berlin, DE (Deputy director)
OFES-19 (una-europa network): Berlin, DE (Orders of Feeling and Economies of Solidarity: Understanding the relationship between work, health systems, and well-being in five European countries during Covid-19 (OFES-19) , Workshop co-organizer)
Bearing witness to Slow Violence and Inner Atmospheres (DGSKA Conference, Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene) (Lab co-convenor)
Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE (Leipzig Lab ‘Children and Nature’ (convenors: Daniel Haun, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Katja Liebal, Leipzig Lab, Universität Leipzig), ethnographic and mixed methods in comparative and translocal children-environment research (Leipzig Lab), Member of working group)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Dahlem Research School (DRS), Mentor for International doctorate students)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Director of Bachelor Program (Studiengangsleitung, ‘StPO 2018’))
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Head of Commission (Vorsitzender der Gemeinsamen Kommission) of Transdisciplinary Bachelor Program)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Head of Examinations Board Bachelor Program (Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender, StPO 2018))
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Head of Examinations Board Bachelor Program (Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender, StPO 2013))
Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Ombudsperson (Vertrauensdozent) for doctorate students)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Director of Bachelor Program (Studiengangsleitung, ‘StPO 2013’))
Encounter: Berlin, DE (collaborative multilingual media project in Arabic, English, Farsi and German, Co-initiator and editorial advisor)
European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA): Berlin, DE (ENPA Dialogues #2–Provincializing or Decolonizing Psychological Anthropology?, Annual Discussion Service , Organizer)
European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB (panel at the Biannual Conference, Divergent Temporalities , Co-convenor)
Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE (preparatory workshop for anthropological art dialogues, Living a ‘good life’–Perspectives from Anthropology, Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship (transmediale 2019, Berlin festival), organizer)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE (plenary session at the biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Envisioning Anthropological Futures, co-organizer)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): Munich, DE (Board Member and Treasurer)
European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA),: Berlin, DE (ENPA Dialogues #1–Theory, Method, Experiment; Annual Discussion at the ENPA, co-organizer)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): Munich, DE (AG Psychologische Anthropologie, co-founder and co-convenor)
American Anthropological Association: Santa Ana, New Mexico, US (panel: Towards Global Psychological Anthropology (Society for Psychological Anthropology Biannual Conference (AAA)), co-convenor)
Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin, DE (How to Disrupt Yourself: Life in the Entrepreneurial Home (transmediale 2019), panel discussion organizer)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Teaching Award FU Berlin Ceremony, Committee member and Moderation)
Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Lecture Series at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Hope, Disquiet, Loss. Affective Encounters in More-than-Human-Worlds (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology), co-organizer)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE (Symposium: Psychological Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, organizer)
European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB (Roundtable: Moving Psychological Anthropologies, Inauguration of The European Network for Psychological Anthropology – EASA biannual conference Stockholm University, Sweden, Convenor)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): Munich, DE (Affective Practices, Belonging, and the Politics of Care (DGSKA Biannual Conference), Organizer)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Bonn, DE (Alexander von Humboldt Award winner: Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, DK; Clarke University, US), Host)
Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Killing the Concept of Culture … only to redefine it in new ways! – Occasional Seminar for BA- and MA-students. A trialogue from anthropology, sociology, and psychology with Christian von Scheve (sociology) and Jaan Valsiner (psychology), Co-organizer)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Member of the Department Council (Institutsrat))
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Faculty Council (Fachbereichsrat) (Department of Political and Social Sciences), Junior Researcher Representative)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Working Group ‘Gender’ (Cluster of Excellence, ‘Languages of Emotion’), Coordinator)
Lubrich, Oliver, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Emotionen auf Expeditionen: Ein Taschenhandbuch für die ethnographische
Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Stodulka, Thomas. . Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and
Illness Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Books (Edited Collections)
Stodulka, Thomas, von Poser, Anita, Scheidecker, Gabriel, and Bens, Jonas, eds. . Anthropologie der Emotionen: Affektive Dynamiken in Kultur und Gesellschaft Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
Stodulka, Thomas, Dinkelaker, Samia, and Thajib, Ferdiansyah, eds. . Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography New York: Springer Publishing.
Liebal, Katja, and Lubrich, OliverStodulka Thomas. . Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche zur Ethnographie, Primatographie, und Reiseliteratur., edited by KatjaLiebal and OliverStodulka ThomasLubrich. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Stodulka, Thomas. . Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness, edited by ThomasStodulka. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Stodulka, Thomas, and Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, eds. . Feelings at the Margins: Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in
Indonesia Germany: Campus Verlag.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Stodulka, Thomas. . “Ethnographie und Feldforschung in Bewegten Welten.” in Kulturpsychologie: Eine Einführung, edited by UweWolfradt, LarsAllolio-Näcke and Peter S. Ruppel. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
Stodulka, Thomas. . “Die Ökonomie des Humorvollen.” in Ethnographic Encounters - Essays in Honour of Martin Rössler, edited by MichaelaHaug and RosalieStolz. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Stodulka, Thomas. . “Orders of Feeling.” in Affective Societies: Key Concepts, edited by JanSlaby and Christianvon Scheve. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351039260.
Thomas, Stodulka, Thajib, Ferdiansyah, and Dinkelaker, Samia. . “Introduction: Advancing Affective Scholarship.” in Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by StodulkaThomas, FerdiansyahThajib and SamiaDinkelaker. New York: Springer Publishing.
Stodulka, Thomas. . “Coming of Age on the Streets.” in The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, edited by LenoreManderson, ElizabethCartwright and AnitaHardon. New York: Routledge.
Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “The Emotional Make-up of Marginality and Stigma.” in Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia, edited by ThomasStodulka and BirgittRöttger-Rössler. Germany: Campus Verlag.
Davies, James, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Emotions in Fieldwork.” SAGE Research Methods - Social and Personal Aspects on Qualitative ResearchLondon: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781526421036783199.
Editorial in a Digital Collection
Dinkelaker, Samia, Stodulka, Thomas, and Thajib, Ferdiansyah. . “Editorial.” Ethnolab
Other Scientific Publications
Nguyen, Minh, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Exceptional Uncertainty: Early-Career Anthropologists in the Corona Pandemic
Cordula, Weißköppel, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Feldforschen lernen in Zeiten der Pandemie
Stodulka, Thomas. . A Proposition: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and the Empirical Affect Montage