Michaela Fenske

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Michaela Katharina Fenske (born May 6, 1966 ) is a German European ethnologist and university professor . Since October 2017 she has held the chair for European Ethnology / Folklore at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

Life

Michaela Fenske studied cultural anthropology / European ethnology (formerly folklore), empirical cultural studies, medieval and modern history as well as economic and social history at the universities of Göttingen and Tübingen from 1985 to 1990 . From 1990 to 1997 she worked in the women's office at the University of Göttingen and temporarily managing director of the state conference of Lower Saxony women's representatives. In 1997 she completed her studies in Göttingen with a Magister artium . From 1998 to 2003 she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen. After completing her doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation award from the University of Göttingen, she worked temporarily as a lecturer at the universities of Hamburg, Zurich and Göttingen until 2006 and as a research assistant in Göttingen from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2008 she was a research assistant in the DFG-funded research association “Folklore Knowledge and Social Knowledge Transfer”, and from 2009 to 2011 in the MWK-funded research project “Lower Saxony from below. Everyday Political Culture in Lower Saxony (1946–1976) ”. From 2011 to 2013 she held a substitute professorship at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology / European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen and completed her habilitation in 2012 in Göttingen. From 2014 to 2017 she worked as a DFG Heisenberg fellow at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Since October 2017 she has held the chair for European Ethnology / Folklore at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .

From 2009 to 2013 Fenske was first chairwoman of the Folklore Commission for Lower Saxony and in 2008 co-founder of the Working Group Historical Approaches in Cultural Analysis of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) . She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Comparative Urban History and the working group “Biodiversity in the Agricultural Landscape” of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . She has been co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Volkskunde since 2019 .

Fenske's areas of work are primarily historical anthropology , anthropology beyond the human / multispecies ethnography, anthropology of the political, anthropology of writing, narrative culture, popular culture research, spatial research (including rural anthropology) and economic anthropology.

Publications (selection)

  • A village in turmoil. Waake in the 18th century. (= Hanoverian writings on regional and local history. Volume 13). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 1999, ISBN 3-89534-246-7 .
  • as editor: Gender and Economics. Contributions of the 10th working conference of the Commission for Women and Gender Studies of the German Society for Folklore Göttingen 2004. (= series of publications of the Folklore Commission for Lower Saxony eV Volume 20). Schmerse, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-926920-38-6 .
  • Market culture in the early modern period. Economy, power and entertainment at a city fair and livestock. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna / Weimar 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-24905-2 .
  • as editor: Everyday life as politics - politics in everyday life: Dimensions of the political in the past and present. A reading book for Carola Lipp. Lit-Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10836-4 .
  • Write democracy. Citizens' letters and petitions as media of political culture 1950–1974. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39572-2 . (At the same time: habilitation thesis, University of Göttingen, 2012).
  • with Regina Bendix (ed.): Political meals. (= Culinary Science Forum. Volume 5). Lit-Verlag, Berlin / Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12688-7 .
  • with Dorothee Hemme (Ed.): Landities in Lower Saxony. Cultural anthropological perspectives on the time after 1945 (= Göttingen cultural studies. Volume 11). Schmerse, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-926920-52-2 .
  • with Guido Fackler , Franziska Gleichauf (Ed.): From the honeycomb into the world: the bee makes culture. (= Catalog of the exhibition of the same name in Lab 13 at the Landesgartenschau Würzburg 2018 / Writings and materials of the Würzburg Museology. Issue 6). Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, Würzburg 2018, ISSN  2197-4667 ( PDF ).
  • with Susanne Dinkl (ed.): Würzburger studies on European ethnology. Würzburg since 2018, ISSN  2511-9486 ( online ).
  • as editor: Everyday life - culture - science. Contributions to European ethnology. (Founded and published by Burkhart Lauterbach until 2018 , continued by Michaela Fenske). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg since 2019, ISBN 978-3-8260-6949-9 (2019).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Göttingen Dissertation Prize. (PDF) Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  2. Göttingen. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  3. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Public Relations: Lower Saxony from below. Everyday political culture in Lower Saxony (1946–1976) - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  4. Prof. Dr. Michaela Fenske. In: Volkskunde.Uni-Wuerzburg.de. Retrieved September 21, 2019 .
  5. Board of Trustees. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  6. Biodiversity in the Agricultural Landscape. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .