2020
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2019
Habilitation (Venia: Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Cologne

2018 - 2020
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Siegen

2017
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz

2014-2015
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2010-2018
Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2004
PhD, University of Bonn

Thematic

• Traditionalism, populism, nationalism
• Violence, conflict, social order
• Intermediary rule and democracy
• Anthropology of the state
• Anthropology of sports

Regional

• South Africa
• Namibia

Krämer, M. (2020) Neotraditional Authority Contested: The Corporatization of Tradition and the Quest for Democracy in the Topnaar Traditional Authority, Namibia. Africa 90(2): 318-338 [Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972019001062]

Krämer, M. (2020) Violence, Autochthony, and Identity Politics in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa): A Processual Perspective on Local Political Dynamics. African Studies Review 63(3): 540-559 [Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2019.69]

Krämer, M. (2020) On Being a Father in the Field: Mobility, Distance, and Closeness. In: Braukmann, F.; Haug, M.; Metzmacher, K. & Stolz, R. (eds.) Being a Parent in the Field: Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork. Bielefeld: transcript; 209-222.

Krämer, M. (2019) Die „Grauzonen“ staatlicher Herrschaft. Soziopolis: Gesellschaft beobachten. Buchforum zu Scott, J.C. (2019) Die Mühlen der Zivilisation. Eine Tiefengeschichte der frühesten Staaten. Berlin: Suhrkamp. [https://www.soziopolis.de/artikeluebersicht/artikel/scott-buchforum-3-die-muehlen-der-zivilisation/]

Krämer, M. (2019) The Current Debate on Neotraditional Authority in South Africa: Notes on the Legitimacy and Rise of Intermediaries. In: Hüsken, T.; Solyga, A. & Badi, D. (eds.) The Multiplicity of Orders and Practices. A Tribute to Georg Klute. Köln: Köppe; 111-133.

Krämer, M. (2018) The Struggle over Neotraditional Authority: Power, Legitimacy and Democracy in South Africa and Namibia. Kumulative Habilitationsschrift. Universität zu Köln.

Krämer, M. (2016) Neither Despotic nor Civil: the Legitimacy of Chieftaincy in its Relationship with the ANC and the State in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). The Journal of Modern African Studies 54(1): 117-143 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X1500083X]

Krämer, M. (2015) Basislegitimität der widerständigen Gewalt und Kleiner Krieg in KwaZulu-Natal, Südafrika. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 140(2): 159-176.

University of Cologne Forum „Ethnicity as a Political Resource“ (ed.) (2015) Ethnicity as a Political Resource. Conceptualizations across Disciplines, Regions, and Periods. Bielefeld: transcript.

Krämer, M. (2007) Violence as Routine: Transformations of Local-Level Politics and the Disjunction between Centre and Periphery in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa). Köln: Köppe.