Andre Gingrich

Andre Gingrich (born 12 September 1952) is an Austrian ethnologist and anthropologist, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and retired professor at the University of Vienna.

Biography Andre Gingrich since 1998 to 2017 has been a full professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Since 2003, he is director of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

He obtained both his doctoral degree (1979) in social anthropology (together with studies in sociology, Arabic, and Middle Eastern history) and his habilitation (1990) at Vienna University. personal identity, gender studies, ethnicity theory, paradox, globalization, nationalism, practice and experience of ethnographic fieldwork and intercultural and comparative analyzes of Arabic sources in ethnological and historical interpretation. and member of the Board of the Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall. He is editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals: Ethnos (Sweden) and Focaal (Netherlands); an advisory board member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/G) and for the Frobenius Institute at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt. Völkerkunde zur NS-Zeit aus Wien (1938–1945). Institutionen, Biographien und Praktiken in Netzwerken (edited by, with Peter Rohrbacher), 2021.

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Awards Wittgenstein Award, 2000 Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften, 2015

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