I am currently Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While I have been an EASA member since the early 1990s, my 20+ years in North American academia (1991-2013) kept me from running for EASA office earlier. Instead, I served as President of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and chaired departments in Alaska and Austria. Now, I would appreciate the opportunity to lend my experience to the Executive Committee.
At present, I am leading an ERC Advanced Grant project, and am convinced that we social anthropologists could and should play a bigger role in the European funding landscape and conduct research on societally relevant issues. Based on my 30+ years of research experience on and in Russia, I want to explore ways of rethinking research strategies and rebuilding relations with Russian colleagues, once the terrible war of aggression against Ukraine has ended. I want to see a strong European anthropology, in concert with world anthropologies and in productive relations with other disciplines.
Nominating member: Grażyna Kubica-Heller (Jagiellonian University); Supporting member: Franz Krause (University of Cologne)