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Dr. Caroline Meier zu Biesen

Dr. Caroline Meier zu Biesen

Research Fellow

Transregional Sociology
INTERIM-Staatsanwalts.LPZ
Straße des 17. Juni 2
04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

Caroline Meier zu Biesen is a social and cultural anthropologist and sociologist specializing in Medical Anthropology and Global Health. She is a research associate at the interdisciplinary LeipzigLab "Global Health" research project at Leipzig University. Until 2019, she worked as a visiting lecturer at the Free University of Berlin, and between 2015 and 2017, she served as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-Project "Globhealth" at Cermes3 in Paris. Currently, she is working on her habilitation project on "Non-communicable diseases" (NCDs) and environmental health risks in the context of Global Health. Her research has been supported by the European Research Framework Program ERC, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Research Commission of the Free University, the Academic Exchange Service, and the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation.

Professional career

  • since 12/2019
    Research assistant in the interdisciplinary lab "Global Health", University of Leipzig
  • 04/2019 - 10/2019
    Visiting Lecturer Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 02/2017 - 03/2019
    Research assistant, DFG project (own position): "Border as Symbol and Cause of Cultural Transformation Processes: the Traditional Medical Sector in Zanzibar", Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 11/2018 - 12/2018
    Lectureship, Institute for Ethnology, University of Heidelberg
  • 04/2018 - 07/2018
    Lectureship, Institute for History of Medicine and Science Research, University of Lübeck
  • 02/2015 - 12/2017
    Post-doc in ERC project: "Globhealth", Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Research Unit: Cermes3/ École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris
  • 09/2014 - 10/2014
    Visiting Lecturer in Medical Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Mental Health, University of Uganda
  • 01/2014 - 12/2014
    Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 01/2012 - 12/2013
    Post-Doc, Center for Area Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 04/2011 - 12/2011
    Research Associate, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin

Education

  • 10/1999 - 03/2005
    Magistra Artium in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology and Educational Sciences, Free University of Berlin
  • 08/2007 - 04/2011
    PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin: "Global Epidemics - Local Responses: An Ethnography of the Medicinal Plant Artemisia annua in Tanzania".

Research Fields


Regional:

East Africa (Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya), India


Thematic:

  • Global Health/Planetary Health
  • Social Inequality and Medicine
  • Anthropology of Infectious Diseases (HIV, Malaria)
  • Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
  • Traditional Medicine, religion, and spiritual healing
  • Migration and Health
  • Gender
  • Chronic disease, pain and neglected diseases (Endometriosis)

  • Pandemic Space: Understanding Quarantine and Responsibilization in Times of Corona
    Meier zu Biesen, Caroline
    Duration: 03/2022 – 12/2024
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse; Vgl. Kultur- /Gesellschaftsgeschichte d. modernen Europas (18.-21.Jhd)
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  • Traces of eradication: toxic legacies of the mid-20 century model malaria control programme in Pare valley
    Geissler, Paul Wenzel
    Duration: 02/2022 – ongoing
    Funded by: Andere ausländische öffentliche Forschungsförderer
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse
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  • Borders, healers, politics: Brokering therapeutic sources in Zanzibar
    Meier zu Biesen, Caroline
    Duration: 01/2022 – 12/2023
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse
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  • Grenze als Symbol und Ursache kultureller Transformationsprozesse: der traditionelle Medizinsektor in Sansibar
    Meier zu Biesen, Caroline
    Duration: 05/2017 – 04/2019
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Soziologie mit Schwerpunkt Transregionalisierungsprozesse
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more projects




  • Culture and Society

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2023, Institute of Sociology, UL

  • Guest Lectures Political Sociology, Sociologies of Globalization

    Winter Semester 2021/22, Institute of Sociology, Global and European Studies Institute, UL

  • Culture and Society

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2021, Institute of Sociology, UL

  • Anthropology & Communication

    MA Seminar, Summer Semester 2021, Institute of Ethnology, UL

  • Guest Lectures Political Sociology, Sociologies of Globalization

    Winter Semester 2020, Institute of Sociology, GESI, UL

  • Ethnography of Borders

    MA Seminar, Summer Semester 2019, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin

  • Mobility, Borders and Demarcation Processes in African Contexts

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2019, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin

  • Colloquium

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2019, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin

  • Practical and feasible: sensitive Health Care for Migrants

    Lecture, Summer Semester 2018, Institute for History of Medicine/Science Research, Lübeck

  • Global Health, Bioprospecting and socio-cultural Practices

    MA seminar, winter semester 2018/19, Institute for Ethnology, Heidelberg

  • Anthropology of Infectious Diseases

    MA Lecture, 2014, Faculty of Medicine, University of Uganda

  • Ethnographies of East Africa

    MA Seminar, Summer Semester 2014, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin 

  • Qualitative Research Methods

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2011, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin

  • Religion, Cosmology and Ritual

    BA Seminar, Summer Semester 2011, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin