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Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka

Current affiliations

  • Professorship of ethnology (Prof. Stodulka)
  • Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
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0000-0002-9142-0814

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

  • Affect and Emotion
  • Education, Economy, and Environment
  • Childhood and Youth
  • Ethnographic Methods and Collaborations
  • Marginalization, Stigmatization, and Mental Health
  • Psychological Anthropology
  • Public Anthropology
  • Social Inequalities and Mobilities
  • Visual Anthropology

Academic Education

05/2013Dr. phil. in Social and Cultural Anthropology (magna cum laude), Institue of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
10/2004M.A. (mit Auszeichnung) (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Media and Communication Studies), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: Göttingen, DE

Work Experience

since 10/2023Professor (Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Münster: Münster, DE
05/2013 - 07/2018 Project Director “The Researchers’ Affects”, International Research Group (VolkswagenStiftung), anchored at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
09/2016 - 07/2017EURIAS Junior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Amsterdam, NL
10/2016 Junior Professor (W1), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE
08/2014 - 06/2015Visiting Scholar, Center for Social and Democratic Studies, Sanata Dharma University: Yogyakarta, ID
10/2008 - 04/2013Assistant and Research Fellow, Interdisciplinary Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion", Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

Functions and Memberships

since 2020Editor, Fieldwork meets Crisis. Boasblog: Siegen, DE
since 2020Editorial Board, cultura & psyché (Springer Nature): Berlin, DE
since 2019Initiator and editorial advisor, [anthro]metronom–witnessing psy-realms, graduate student blog: Berlin, DE
since 2019Mentor for displaced early career-researchers, Academics in Solidarity (AiS), Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
since 2019Membership, Shaping Asia Transnational Research Network, DFG: Bonn, DE
since 08/2019Co-convenor, Theory and Methods Workshop (SFB 1171 Affective Societies) , Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
since 08/2019Member of working group, Leipzig Lab ‘Children and Nature’ (convenors: Daniel Haun, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Katja Liebal, Leipzig Lab, Universität Leipzig), ethnographic and mixed methods in comparative and translocal children-environment research (Leipzig Lab), Universität Leipzig: Leipzig, Sachsen, DE
since 2018Advisory board, Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (Sciendo, De Gruyter): Warsaw, PL
since 01/2018Co-founder and convenor, European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB
since 02/2017Ombudsperson (Vertrauensdozent) for doctorate students, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
since 2016Member of the Department Council (Institutsrat), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
since 2015Membership, AG Psychologische Anthropologie, AG Public Anthropology, AG Südostasien , Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE
since 2012Membership, European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB
since 2010Membership, Mauerpark Institute e.V.: Berlin, DE
since 2010Membership, European Association for South East Asian Studies: Leiden, NL
2021 - 2028Co-organizer, Annual Winter School, Culture, Psychology, and Qualitative Research (in collaboration with Aalborg University) , Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität - Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
2019 - 2026Co-editor (with Kelvin Low and Sidhartan Maunaguru, NUS Singapore), Social Sciences in Asia (Brill Book Series): Leiden, NL
2020 - 2024Member, think tank on data management and archiving in universities, teaching and librariesteaching and libraries (Lenkungskreis Data Management and Data Literacy) , Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
04/2017 - 04/2024Mentor for International doctorate students, Dahlem Research School (DRS), Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
2016 - 2023Membership, SFB 1171 Affective Societies (DFG): Berlin, DE
2020 - 2022Deputy director, BGAEU–Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte: Berlin, DE
2020 - 2022 Deputy director, BGAEU–Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte: Berlin, DE
2019 - 2022Associate editor, Ethos – Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (American Anthropological Association): Arlington, US
2019 - 2022Membership, American Anthropological Association: Arlington, VA, US
2019 - 2022Membership, Society for Psychological Anthropology: Arlington, VA, US
10/2022Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE , Decentralizing knowledge: Alternative practices and cultures of learning and schooling in Asia, DFG-Network Shaping Asia: Bonn, DE
12/2018 - 02/2022Director of Bachelor Program (Studiengangsleitung, ‘StPO 2018’), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
12/2018 - 02/2022Head of Examinations Board Bachelor Program (Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender, StPO 2018), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
04/2017 - 02/2022Director of Bachelor Program (Studiengangsleitung, ‘StPO 2013’), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
04/2017 - 02/2022Head of Commission (Vorsitzender der Gemeinsamen Kommission) of Transdisciplinary Bachelor Program, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
04/2017 - 02/2022Head of Examinations Board Bachelor Program (Prüfungsausschussvorsitzender, StPO 2013), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
2021Co-organizer, EMERGE! Countering Pandemic Somnambulism through Connectivities, Comparisons, and Collaborations, Shaping Asia Network (DFG): Bonn, DE
2017 - 2021Co-initiator and editorial advisor, collaborative multilingual media project in Arabic, English, Farsi and German, Encounter: Berlin, DE
10/2021Workshop co-organizer, Orders of Feeling and Economies of Solidarity: Understanding the relationship between work, health systems, and well-being in five European countries during Covid-19 (OFES-19) , OFES-19 (una-europa network): Berlin, DE
09/2021Lab co-convenor, Bearing witness to Slow Violence and Inner Atmospheres (DGSKA Conference, Worlds. Zones. Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene)
06/2021Conference co-organizer, Mind Embedded and Embodied–Futures of Psychological Anthropology, 1st Biennial Conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA), European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA): Helsinki, FI
09/2020Organizer, ENPA Dialogues #2–Provincializing or Decolonizing Psychological Anthropology?, Annual Discussion Service , European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA): Berlin, DE
07/2020Co-convenor, panel at the Biannual Conference, Divergent Temporalities , European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB
2019co-convenor, panel: Towards Global Psychological Anthropology (Society for Psychological Anthropology Biannual Conference (AAA)), American Anthropological Association: Santa Ana, New Mexico, US
2019panel discussion organizer, How to Disrupt Yourself: Life in the Entrepreneurial Home (transmediale 2019), Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Berlin, DE
2019Committee member and Moderation, Teaching Award FU Berlin Ceremony, Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, Berlin, DE
2019co-organizer, Lecture Series at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology; Hope, Disquiet, Loss. Affective Encounters in More-than-Human-Worlds (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology), Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE
11/2019organizer, preparatory workshop for anthropological art dialogues, Living a ‘good life’–Perspectives from Anthropology, Filmmaking and Entrepreneurship (transmediale 2019, Berlin festival), Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE
10/2019co-organizer, plenary session at the biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Envisioning Anthropological Futures, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE
10/2017 - 10/2019Board Member and Treasurer, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): Munich, DE
09/2019co-organizer, ENPA Dialogues #1–Theory, Method, Experiment; Annual Discussion at the ENPA, European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA),: Berlin, DE
10/2015 - 09/2019co-founder and co-convenor, AG Psychologische Anthropologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): Munich, DE
09/2018organizer, Symposium: Psychological Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA): München, DE
08/2018Convenor, Roundtable: Moving Psychological Anthropologies, Inauguration of The European Network for Psychological Anthropology – EASA biannual conference Stockholm University, Sweden, European Association of Social Anthropologists: London, GB
2017Co-organizer, Killing the Concept of Culture … only to redefine it in new ways! – Occasional Seminar for BA- and MA-students. A trialogue from anthropology, sociology, and psychology with Christian von Scheve (sociology) and Jaan Valsiner (psychology), Freie Universität Berlin Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie: Berlin, Berlin, DE

Publications

Emotions in Field and Text: A Pocket Book for Ethnographic Practice and Literary Analysis
Lubrich, Oliver; Stodulka, Thomas
(kein Verlag angegeben).
Book (monograph)
Sensory endurances: Feeling and resisting the margins
Stodulka, Thomas; Abdullah, Nooman; Low, Kelvin Ey (2026)
In: International Sociology, 41(1).
Research article (journal)
Combining remote and collaborative research: A critical reflection on large‐scale, comparative, and interdisciplinary research in times of a global crisis
Thajib, Ferdiansyah; Stodulka, Thomas; Kanngiesser, Patricia; Haun, Daniel; Sunderarajan, Jahnavi; Junker, Magie; Meng, Tongtong; Sun, Wanting; Zhang, Zhen; Masaquiza, Sandra; Swastyastu, Monika; Taek, Desri Julita; Abis, Arianna; Tjizao, Disney; Shishala, Dennis; Petrović, Ljubica; Striegler, Blanca; Weyrowitz, Janina; Arroyo-Garcia, Bernardo; Liebal, Katja (2025)
In: Ethos, 53(4).
Research article (journal)
Die neue globale Normalität
Stodulka, Thomas (2024)
In: Kolesch, Doris (eds.), Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart . Berlin: Neofelis Verlag.
Research article (book contribution)
Sensory Endurances: Feeling, Sensing, and Resisting the Margins
Stodulka, Thomas; Low, Kelvin E.Y; Abdullah, Noorman (eds.) (2024)
In: International Sociology.
Special issue of a journal
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Projects

ENPA 2025 Conference: Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Duration: 11/06/2025 - 13/06/2025
Funded by: Participation / conference fees
Type of project: Scientific Event
Afflicted Minds – ‘Madness’, morality, and emotions in rural Bali
Duration: 01/03/2024 - 31/12/2024 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Individual Grants Programme
Type of project: Individual project