Interaktionen und fachliche Vernetzungen
in der Geschichte der Ethnologie
Interactions and Professional Networks
in the History of Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology
PD Dr. Katja Geisenhainer
Research fellow at the Frobenius Institute for Reseach in Cultural Anthropology
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt (Main)
Germany
email: [email protected]
Katja Geisenhainer is a Research Fellow at the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. She serves as spokesperson for the Working Group on the History of Anthropology within the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology, together with Richard Kuba, and is co-convenor of the History of Anthropology Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
She studied ethnology, sociology, education, and educational psychology in Mainz and Leipzig. She earned her doctorate at Leipzig with a dissertation on Otto Reche (1879–1966) and completed her habilitation in Frankfurt with a thesis examining the networks between Viennese and German ethnologists from 1933 to 1945. Her research and teaching focus primarily on the history of the discipline, particularly German-speaking ethnology in the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Her work pays special attention to the National Socialist period and encompasses biographical research, cultural-historical approaches, historical network analysis, and the relationship between physical anthropology and ethnology/cultural anthropology.
