Andre Gingrich

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Andre Gingrich
Born(1952-09-12)12 September 1952
Vienna, Austria
CitizenshipAustrian
Occupation Anthropologist

Andre Gingrich (born 12 September 1952) is an Austrian ethnologist and anthropologist, member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and retired professor at the University of Vienna.

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Biography

Andre Gingrich since 1998 to 2017 has been a full professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Since 2003, he is director of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). [1]

He obtained both his doctoral degree (1979) in social anthropology (together with studies in sociology, Arabic, and Middle Eastern history) and his habilitation (1990) at Vienna University. [1]

His research interests include anthropology and history of south-western Arabia (Saudi Arabia and Yemen), theories and methods in anthropology, the history of anthropology, [2] personal identity, gender studies, ethnicity theory, paradox, globalization, nationalism, practice and experience of ethnographic fieldwork and intercultural and comparative analyzes of Arabic sources in ethnological and historical interpretation. [1]

He was the head of the research project Wittgenstein 2000 – Local Identities and Local Impacts (Wittgenstein 2000 – lokale Identitäten und überlokale Einflüsse). [1]

He is a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 2007), full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, [3] and member of the Board of the Austrian Orient Society Hammer-Purgstall. [4] He is editorial board member for peer reviewed journals: Ethnos (Sweden) and Focaal (Netherlands); an advisory board member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/G) and for the Frobenius Institute at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt. [1]

Gingrich holds US and Austrian dual citizenship. He is married and has two children. [1]

Works (selection)

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Awards

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gingrich, Andre. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  2. "Andre Gingrich". Visions of Community. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  3. "Detailseite über Andre Gingrich, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften". Archived from the original on 12 May 2013.
  4. "Der Vorstand". Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall. Archived from the original on 3 October 2011.
  5. Gingrich, Andre (November 2019). "List of academic publications" (PDF). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 13 October 2021.