Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka

Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka

Johannisstr. 1
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-27320

Academic Profiles

Participation in the Cluster of Excellence

  • Co-Head of the Working Group: 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

Positions

Professor (Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Münster: Münster, 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
Junior Professor (W1), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
Visiting Scholar, Center for Social and Democratic Studies, Sanata Dharma University: Yogyakarta, ID
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)
Fieldwork meets Crisis. Boasblog: Siegen, DE (Editor)
cultura & psyché (Springer Nature): Berlin, DE (Editorial Board)
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)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Theory and Methods Workshop (SFB 1171 Affective Societies) , 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)
[anthro]metronom–witnessing psy-realms, graduate student blog: Berlin, DE (Initiator and editorial advisor)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Academics in Solidarity (AiS), Mentor for displaced early career-researchers)
Social Sciences in Asia (Brill Book Series): Leiden, NL (Co-editor (with Kelvin Low and Sidhartan Maunaguru, NUS Singapore))
Ethos – Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (American Anthropological Association): Arlington, US (Associate editor)
American Anthropological Association: Arlington, VA, US (Membership)
Society for Psychological Anthropology: Arlington, VA, US (Membership)
Shaping Asia Transnational Research Network, DFG: Bonn, DE (Membership)
European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB (Co-founder and convenor)
Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (Sciendo, De Gruyter): Warsaw, PL (Advisory board)
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)
SFB 1171 Affective Societies (DFG): Berlin, DE (Membership)
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))
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE (AG Psychologische Anthropologie, AG Public Anthropology, AG Südostasien , Membership)
Center for Democratic and People’s Studies, Sanata Dharma University: Yogyakarta, ID (Membership)
European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB (Membership)
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)
Mauerpark Institute e.V.: Berlin, DE (Membership)
European Association for South East Asian Studies: Leiden, NL (Membership)
Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE (Cluster of Excellence ‘Languages of Emotion’, Board Member as Junior Faculty Representative)
KINOKI–bukan bioskop bukan coffeeshop: Yogyakarta, ID (Indonesia’s first independent cinema café, Co-founder and program co-manager)
Rumah Sehat Lestari (RSL): Yogyakarta, ID (Shelter for chronically ill persons at the urban margins, Co-founder and manager)
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Books

Books (Monographs)
  • , and . . Emotionen auf Expeditionen: Ein Taschenhandbuch für die ethnographische Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
  • . . 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.
  • , and . . Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche zur Ethnographie, Primatographie, und Reiseliteratur., edited by Katja Liebal and Oliver Stodulka Thomas Lubrich. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
  • . . Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness, edited by Thomas Stodulka. 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
Research Articles (Journals)
Review (Journals)
Book Contributions
Research Article (Book Contributions)
  • . . “Coming of Age on the Streets.” in The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon. New York: Routledge.
Entry in an Encyclopedia (Book Contribution)
Pre- / Postfaces in Monographs

Special Issues of Journals

  • Göpfert, Mirco, Behrends, Andrea, Nguyen, Minh, Kirsch, Thomas G., Ramella, Anna Lisa, Stodulka, Thomas, Treiber, Magnus, and Vonderau, Astaeds. .“Fieldwork meets Crisis.” Special Issue Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
  • Mashimi, Kristina, Stodulka, Thomas, Dilger, Hansjörg, von Poser, Anita, Mattes, Dominik, and Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, eds. . “Envisioning Anthropological Futures.” Special Issue Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.

Objective, Multimedia-based or Online Publications

Web Publications (Blog Articles)
Websites (Publicly Available)

Working Paper, Reports, Expertises or Manuals

Project Report
Expertise or WorkExperience Statement

ePapers or Preprints in Digital Collections

Research Articles in a Digital Collection
Editorial in a Digital Collection
  • , , and . . “Editorial.” Ethnolab

Other Scientific Publications

  • , and . . Exceptional Uncertainty: Early-Career Anthropologists in the Corona Pandemic
  • , and . . Feldforschen lernen in Zeiten der Pandemie
  • . . A Proposition: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and the Empirical Affect Montage