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
Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka
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)