Waltraud Kokot

Waltraud Kokot (born December 16, 1952 in Cologne ) is a German ethnologist .

Life

From 1974 to 1977 she studied (ethnology, linguistics, social psychology) at the University of Cologne and from 1977 to 1981 (social sciences, cultural anthropology) at the University of California, Irvine . After receiving her doctorate in 1981 at the University of California, Irvine, she was an assistant at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne from 1982 to 1983. From 1983 to 1986 she received a research grant from the DFG : Field Research in Greece. From 1986 to 1990 she was a research assistantat the Institute for Ethnology, University of Cologne. From 1990 to 1994 she trained in client-centered psychotherapy / counseling, conception and implementation of advanced training programs for intercultural counseling and therapy, and freelance work in individual and family counseling. From 1993 to 1994 she had a habilitation grant from the DFG and a teaching position at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Leipzig . After her habilitation in 1995 at the University of Cologne, she taught from 1995 to 2013 as a professor (C3) at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Hamburg .

Her main research interests are diaspora and transnationalism, city and urbanity, forensic ethnology, Southeast Europe, especially Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and migration and diaspores in Western Europe.

Fonts (selection)

• Perceived control and the origins of misfortune. A case study in cognitive anthropology . Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-00714-1 .
• Affected by eviction suits and whereabouts of evicted persons. An ethnological study of the living situation and alternatives to stay . Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0298-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Waltraud Kokot in the catalog of the German National Library
• Univ.-Prof. em. Dr. Waltraud Kokot