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Dr. Carole Ammann

Expertises

  • Recherche, Enseignement

Disciplines

After studying history, political science, and African Studies, she completed her PhD at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. Carole Ammann’s doctoral research focused on women’s everyday political articulations in Guinea, where she conducted fieldwork between 2011 and 2013. She published her findings in the book ‘Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea. Silent Politics’ (Routledge).

Carole Ammann was a junior fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Berne. From 2020 to 2021, she was an SNSF postdoctoral mobility fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, where she researched fathering. After a one-year stay at the University of Lucerne with an SNSF return grant, she was a senior researcher in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) research group at the ETH Zurich.

Research Priorities

  • Parenting
  • Queer kinship
  • Anthropology of Gender
  • Masculinities
  • Intersectionality
  • Urban Anthropology
  • Political Anthropology