Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Institut für Ethnologie
Hauptgebäude
Raum: 6.003
E-mail: mpelican[at]uni-koeln.de
Telefon: +49 221 470-3515
http://ethnologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/content.php?lang=de&kid=22
Kurzbiographie
2024 - present
Speaker of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne
2024 - present
The Rector’s Representative for International Affairs, University of Cologne
2020 - present
Speaker and coordinator of the international research unit "The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Global Contexts and Concepts of Labor Exploitation", University of Cologne
2018/19
Morphomata Fellow, Morphomata International Center for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne (6 months), https://www.morphomata.uni-koeln.de/fellows/alle-fellows/michaela-pelican/
2018 - present
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
2013- 2016
Director of the University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe"
2012 - 2018
Junior Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne
2011
ASAFAS Fellow, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, University of Kyoto
2008 - 2010
Post-doctoral research project on “transnational relations of Cameroonian Muslim migrants”, research grant of the University of Zurich
2006 - 2012
Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
2006
PhD (with distinction) in Social Anthropology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Thesis title: “Getting along in the Grassfields: interethnic relations and identity politics in northwest Cameroon”
2003
Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent
2000 - 2006
PhD candidate and Junior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
Migration, Intersectionality and Institutional Interaction: Experiences of African Migrants in the United Arab Emirates” (Subproject of Research Unit FOR 5183 Transborder Mobility and Institutional Dynamics)
Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: Prof. Dr. Katharina Inhetveen (University of Siegen), Prof. Dr. Habibul Khondker (Zayed University Abu Dhabi), Dr. Nele Kortendiek (Goethe University Frankfurt), PD Dr. Mario Krämer (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Christian Lahusen (University of Siegen), Prof. Dr. Karin Schittenhelm (University of Siegen)
Project management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Website: for5183.uni-siegen.de/sub-projects-overview/sub-project-3/
Duration: 2022- 2026
Vergangene Forschungsprojekte
Research Unit: "The Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities: Global Contexts and Concepts of Labor Exploitation"
Support: Volkswagen Foundation
Cooperation Partners: Prof. Dr. Meron Eresso (Addis Ababa University), Prof. Dr. Tu Huynh (Jinan University, Guangzhou), Prof. Dr. Ulrike Lindner (University of Cologne)
Project Management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Website: https://socialinequalities.uni-koeln.de/
Duration: 2021-2024 (4 years)
Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience: Learning From Neglected Conflicts in Cameroon and Myanmar (Research Cluster)
Support: Cologne International Forum, University of Cologne
Cooperation Partners: Prof. Dr. Roland Balgah (University of Bamenda), Prof. Dr. Stefan Collignon (Chulalongkorn University Bangkok), Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Bhanubhatra "Kaan” Jittiang (Chulalongkorn University Bangkok), Dr. Anna Sobiech (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Naruemon Thabchumpon (Chulalongkorn University Bangkok), Dr. Thilo Zimmermann (University of Cologne)
Project Management: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Website: https://cif.uni-koeln.de/projects/international-research-cluster-2023-24-michaela-pelican
Duration: 2023-2024 (2 years)
Research Project "Chinese immigration law and policy: perspectives of lawmakers, administrators and immigrants"
Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Cooperation Partners: Prof. Dr. Björn Ahl, Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Website: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/258454708
Period: 2015 - 2019
University of Cologne Forum "Ethnicity as a Political Resource: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Europe’
Support: Excellent Research Support Programme, University of Cologne
Cooperation partners: Departments of African Studies, Latin American History, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Project Managment: Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican
Website: https://ethnicity-forum.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/inhalt/home
Period: 2013-2016
Research Project: Communication during and after COVID-19: (re)producing social inequalities and/or opportunities among African migrants in the United Arab Emirates and China
Support: Volkswagen Foundation
Cooperation Partners: Prof. Dr. Tu Hunyh (Jinan University), Dr. Jonathan Ngeh (University of Cologne), Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican (University of Cologne)
Website: socialinequalities.uni-koeln.de