Silke Meyer (ethnologist)

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Silke Meyer (* 1971 in Reutlingen ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

She studied art history , English and folklore / European ethnology at the universities of Tübingen , Münster and Sheffield . After completing his doctorate in folklore / European ethnology at the University of Münster in 2002 , title of the dissertation “Iconography of the Nation. National stereotypes in English printmaking ”, she was DAAD university lecturer in the German Department of Nottingham University from 2002 to 2004 . From 2004 to 2010 she was a university assistant at the Department of Folklore / European Ethnology at the University of Münster. From 2010 to 2015 she was assistant professor (with qualification agreement) at the Institute for History & European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck . After her habilitation in 2015, venia legendi "European Ethnology", since 2016 she has been an associate professor at the Institute for History & European Ethnology in Innsbruck . In 2017 she turned down the call to the W3 professorship in European Ethnology / Folklore at Kiel University (successor to Silke Göttsch-Elten ). She has been a university professor for European ethnology since 2017.

Fonts (selection)

  • The iconography of the nation. National stereotypes in 18th century English printmaking . Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8309-1303-6 .
  • as editor with Ruth Mohrmann and Andreas Hartmann : Historicity as a task and perspective in folklore / European ethnology. Proceedings of the dgv university conference 2006 . Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8309-1860-7 .
  • as editor: Money Matters. Handling money as a social and cultural practice . Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-902936-40-0 .
  • The indebted self. Narrative handling of personal bankruptcy . Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50688-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Silke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen