Alexandra Schwell

Alexandra Schwell (* 1975 ) is a German anthropologist .

Life

From 1994 to 2002 she studied European ethnology, sociology and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan . After completing her doctorate in 2007 at the European University Viadrina with research on the cooperation between German and Polish border guards in the European security field, she received a postdoctoral scholarship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in 2008 . From 2008 to 2016 she was a university assistant at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna . In 2014 she conducted research as Chercheure Invitée at the Center canadien d´études allemandes et européennes at the Université de Montréal . In 2016 she was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies Vienna, Research Group European Integration. From 2016 to 2017 she was a professor at the Institute for Folklore / Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg . From 2017 to 2018 she was a university professor for empirical cultural studies (§ 99 UG ) at the Institute for Cultural Analysis at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt . From 2018 to 2019 she was university professor for intercultural communication at LMU Munich . Since 2019 she has been a university professor for empirical cultural studies (Section 98 UG) at the Institute for Cultural Analysis in Klagenfurt .

Her main research interests are empirical methods, anthropology of the political, border studies, emotion and affect, and institutions and bureaucracies.

Fonts (selection)

• Anarchy is the mother of order. Alternative culture and tradition in Poland . Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-8393-0 .
• Europe on the Oder. The construction of European security on the German-Polish border . Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-970-1 .
• as editor with Jens Wietschorke: Orts- Erundungen . On the trail of the city . Vienna 2012, ISBN 3-902029-19-6 .
• as editor with Katharina Eisch-Angus : The everyday life of (in) security. Ethnographic and cultural studies perspectives on the security society . Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-938714-51-5 .

Web links

• Alexandra Schwell on the website of the University of Klagenfurt