Jonas Tinius

Jonas Tinius is a sociocultural anthropologist and currently director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Office for Everyday Culture in the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He studied social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, where he also completed a PhD on German theatre, migration, and Haltung. Subsequently, he was post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), directed by Sharon Macdonald, at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and scientific coordinator and postdoctoral research fellow in Cultural Anthropology in the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism (PI: Markus Messling) at Saarland University. He held visiting research posts at the Universität zu Köln, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Art (NABA) in Milan, and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute.

He was founding co-convenor of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) with Clare Foster, the Anthropology and the Arts network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) with Roger Sansi, and the research group of the PostHeimat theatre production network funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (with Ruba Totah). He is currently co-convenor of the EASA network colleex – collaboratory for ethnographic experimentation (with Adolfo Estalella, Elisabeth Luggauer, and Maka Suarez).