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Humanities Faculty

European Ethnology

  1.  University of bamberg
  2. Faculties
  3. Humanities
  4. Institutes
  5. History and European Ethnology
  6. European Ethnology
  7. Chair and Assistant Professorship
  8. Team
  9. Alena Mathis M.A.

Alena Mathis M.A.

Research Assistant

Research Interests

  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Multispecies Studies
  • Daily Life in the Climate Crisis
  • Bereavement and Loss
  • Science Theory

 

  • 2023 Research Associate at the Junior Professorship
  • 2022 Student Assistant at the Junior Professorship
  • 2019-2022 Master Studies in Sociology, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg
  • 2015-2019 Bachelor Studies in Music and Movement Oriented Social Work, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg

  • 2020: Sponsorship Award of the Barmherzige Brüder Bayerische Ordensprovinz for Bachelor Thesis „Music and Movement Oriented Social Work in Grief Counselling. Backgrounds and Considerations for Opening Up A New Field of Activity“ (first placed)

Seminars

  • To Read and Understand Scientific Texts – Reading Course (WS 2023/24)

  • Solastalgia – Grief in the Climate Crisis. A response to the loss of ‘nature’ (SS 2023)

Field Trips

  • 1 Day Excursion "Renew Local History Museums!" Symposium in Munich. (WS 2023/24)

Current Research

"SOLASTALGIA - A European-Ethnological Investigation of Senses of Loss, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Allgäu Alps" (working title)
(PhD project)