julia.pauli[at]uni-hamburg.de<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
10\/2011\u2013present\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Professor (W2) of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg <\/span><\/p>\n2\/2011 – 9\/2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG (German Research Foundation)<\/span><\/p>\nApril 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Full professorship offer from the University of Zurich, Switzerland (rejected)<\/span><\/p>\n2\/2010 – 9\/2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Private lecturer (germ. Privatdozentin) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne<\/span><\/p>\nJanuary 2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Habilitation at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne; Venia Legendi in social and cultural anthropology; Title of the thesis: Celebrating distinctions: Marriage, elites and reproduction in rural Namibia;<\/span><\/p>\n1\/2000- 1\/2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Senior Lecturer (germ. Hochschulassistentin) at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Cologne, Germany<\/span><\/p>\nSummer semester 2007 Visiting Professor at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Hamburg, Germany<\/span><\/p>\n1\/2003 – 12\/2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project leader of C10 research project \u2018Demographic, social and economic change in a multiethnic region of Central Namibia\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\nDecember 1999\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Cologne; Title of the thesis: Das geplante Kind. Demographischer, wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Wandel in einer mexikanischen Gemeinde (The planned child. Demographic, economic and social change in a Mexican community)<\/span><\/p>\nJuly 1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M. A. degree; University of Cologne; Thesis: Kultureller Konsensus in einer multiethnischen Schulklasse? Eine Untersuchung kognitiver Netzwerke (Cultural consensus in a multiethnic classroom? An investigation of cognitive networks)<\/span><\/p>\n1990-1995\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academic studies, University of Cologne – subjects: Social Anthropology, German literature, Film Sciences and Psychology<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Research Interests<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nReproduction, kinship and gender in Southern Africa and Latin America; AIDS in Southern Africa; cultural dimensions of immunization; migration and health<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Research Area(s)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nSouthern Africa (Namibia); Mesoamerica (Mexico)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nMonographs and Edited Volumes<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2016. ed. together with R. van Dijk: Change and continuity in Southern African Marriages. Special Issue \u2018Anthropology Southern Africa\u2019. Vol 39 & 40.<\/p>\n2013. ed. together with A. Redder, R. Kie\u00dfling, K. B\u00fchrig, B. Brehmer, I. Breckner and J. Androutsopoulos: \u201eMehrsprachige Kommunikation in der Stadt. Das Beispiel Hamburg\u201c. M\u00fcnster: Waxmann.<\/span><\/p>\n2010. ed. Together with Alber, E., B. Beer and M. Schnegg: \u201eVerwandtschaft heute\u201c. Berlin: Reimer.<\/span><\/p>\n2000. \u201eDas geplante Kind: Demographischer, wirtschaftlicher und sozialer Wandel in einer mexikanischen Gemeinde\u201c. Hamburg: Lit.<\/span><\/p>\nJournal Articles (peer-reviewed)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2017. together with F. Dawids. \u201cThe Struggle for Marriage: Elite and Non-Elite Weddings in Rural Namibia\u201d. Anthropology Southern Africa 40 (1): 15-28.<\/p>\n2016. together with R. van Dijk. \u201cMarriage as an End or the End of Marriage? Change and Continuity in Southern African Marriages\u201d. Anthropology Southern Africa 39 (4): 257-266.<\/p>\n2015. \u201cGebauter Lebenssinn. H\u00e4user in transnationalen mexikanischen Familien\u201c Sociologus 65 (2): 153-176<\/p>\n2014. \u201eWas bedeutet Heirat, wenn nur noch wenige heiraten? Zum Wandel von Heirats- und Konsumpraktiken in Namibia.\u201c Gender. Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft 6(2): 70-84.<\/span><\/p>\n2012. \u201eCreating Illegitimacy: Negotiating Relations and Reproduction within Christian Contexts in Northwest Namibia\u201c. Journal of Religion in Africa 42 (4): 408-432.<\/span><\/p>\n2011. \u201eCelebrating Distinctions: Common and Conspicuous Weddings in Rural Namibia\u201c. Ethnology 50 (2): 153-167.<\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eThe female side of male patronage: Gender perspectives on elite formation processes in Northwest Namibia\u201c. Journal of Namibian Studies (8): 28-47.<\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eViel mehr M\u00e4nnlichkeit! Thematische Potenziale der \u201aM\u00e4nnlichkeitsforschung\u2018 als \u201aGeschlechterforschung\u2018\u201c. Erw\u00e4gen Wissen Ethik 3 (3): 83-85.<\/span><\/p>\n2008. \u201cA House of One’s Own: Gender, Migration and Residence in Rural Mexico.\u201d American Ethnologist 35 (1):171-187.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nChapters in Edited Books<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2017. \u201c\u2018Of course I can speak English more than my mother tongue!\u2019 Sprache und Identit\u00e4t aufstrebender Mittelklassen im postkolonialen Namibia\u201d In: Krause, A., G. Lehrmann, W. Thielmann and C. Trautmann (eds.) Form und Funktion. Festschrift f\u00fcr Angelika Redder zum 65. Geburtstag. T\u00fcbingen: Lehmanns, 409-421.<\/p>\n2016. \u201cAfrican Marriages in Transformation: Anthropological Insights\u201d In Etim, J. (ed.): Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 95-114. <\/p>\n2016. together with F. Bedorf \u201cFrom Ultiomogenitur to Senior Club. Negotiating Certainties and Uncertainties of Growing Older between Rural Mexiko and Urban Chicago\u201d In: Wonneberger, A., M. Gandelsman-Trier and H. Dorsch (eds.) Migration, Networks, Skills. Anthropological Perspectives on Mobility and Transformation. Bielefeld: Transcript, 47-66. <\/p>\n2015. \u201eKind unter Kindern. Geschwisterbeziehungen in Fransfontein, Namibia\u201c In: M. Fink and R. Gronemeyer (ed.): Afrikanische Kindheiten. Soziale Elternschaft und Waisenhilfe in der Subsahara. Bielefeld: Transcript, 81-96.<\/span><\/p>\n2013. together with Egetmeyer, L., Meisel, R. and S. L. Radt: \u201e\u00c4ltere MigrantInnen in Hamburg. Sprachliche und kulturelle Diversit\u00e4t in Senioreneinrichtungen und anderen Alter(n)swelten.\u201c In: ed. Together with A. Redder R. Kie\u00dfling, K. B\u00fchrig, B. Brehmer, I. Breckner and J. Androutsopoulos: Mehrsprachige Kommunikation in der Stadt. Das Beispiel Hamburg. M\u00fcnster: Waxmann, 29-54. <\/span><\/p>\n2013. \u201eSharing Made Us Sisters: Sisterhood, Migration and Household Dynamics in Mexico and Namibia\u201c. In: Alber, E.; Coe, C. and T. Thelen (ed.): The Anthropology of Sibling Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, 29-50. <\/span><\/p>\n2013. together with Schnegg, M. and C. Greiner: \u201ePastoral Belonging: Causes and Consequences of Part-Time Pastoralism in North Western Namibia.\u201c In: Bollig, M.; Schnegg, M. and H.-P. Wotzka (ed.): The Emergence, History and Contemporary Political Ecology of African Pastoralism. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 341-362. <\/span><\/p>\n2012. Together with A. Behrends: \u201eZwischen Charisma und Korruption. Kontinuit\u00e4ten und Br\u00fcche in der Auseinandersetzung mit Eliten in Afrika.\u201c In: Bierschenk, T. und E. Spiess (ed.): Kontinuit\u00e4ten und Br\u00fcche. F\u00fcnfzig Jahre Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit in Afrika. K\u00f6ln: R\u00fcdiger K\u00f6ppe Verlag, 301-320.<\/span><\/p>\n2010. Together with S. Brandner: \u201eWem glauben? Eine explorative Studie zu Impfentscheidungen von K\u00f6lner Eltern zwischen Internet, \u00e4rztlicher Autorit\u00e4t und verwandschaftlichem.\u201c In: H. Dilger and B. Hadolt (ed.): Medizin im Kontext: Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Verlag, 73-93. <\/span><\/p>\n2010. Together with M. Schnegg: \u201eNamibische Wahlverwandschaften. Zur Dualit\u00e4t von Struktur und Handlungsfreiheit in der Verwandschaftsethnologie.\u201c In: ed. Together with E. Alber, B. Beer and M. Schnegg: Verwandtschaft heute. Berlin: Reimer, 305-328. <\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201cDemographic and anthropological perspectives on marriage and reproduction in Namibia.\u201d In: W. M\u00f6hlig, O. Bubenzer and G. Menz (ed.): Towards Interdisciplinarity. K\u00f6ln: Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 205-234. <\/span><\/p>\n2009. \u201c(Re)producing an Elite. Fertility, Marriage and Economic Change in Northwest Namibia.\u201d In: C. Greiner and W. Kokot (ed.): Networks, Resources and Economic Action. Berlin: Reimer, 303-325.<\/span><\/p>\n2007. \u201c\u2019We All Have Our Own Father!\u2019 Reproduction, Marriage and Gender in Rual Northwest Namibia.\u201d In: S. LaFont and D. Hubbard (ed.): Unravelling Taboos: Gender and Sexuality in Namibia. Windhoek: LAC, 197-214.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nBook Reviews<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n2011. Buchbesprechung Haukanes, Haldis and Tatjana Thelen (eds.): \u2018Parenting after the Century of Child: Travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses\u2019. Sociologus 61(1): 119-121.<\/span><\/p>\n2011. Buchbesprechung Rodr\u00edguez, Richard T.: \u2018Next of Kin. The Family in Chicano\/a Cultural Politics\u2019. American Anthropologist 113 (2): 372-373.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Conference Presentations <\/span><\/strong>(since 2007)<\/em><\/p>\n2016 \u201cLandscapes of Belonging. Building and Dwelling in a transnational Mexican community\u201d Workshop \u2018The Affective Creation of Community: Home-Making Practices between Mexico, Peru and the USA\u2019 (Organizer Ingrid Kummels), Lateinamerika-Institut, FU Berlin, 11.11.2016.<\/p>\n2016 \u201cFor all the wrong reasons. Marriage and divorce in Namibia\u201c, European Association of Social Anthropologist (EASA) conference, Panel 18 “Rethinking Marriage. Exchange and Emotion in Comparative Perspective\u201c (Organizers Pauli and van Dijk), Milan, Italy, July 2016.<\/p>\n2016 \u201eWhere does the middle class belong? Namibian weddings and the contested production of locality\u201d, Workshop \u2018Middle Classes in Africa \u2013 anthropological and sociological perspectives\u2019. Bayreuth, 27.-29.4.2016<\/p>\n2015 \u201eAlter(n) in transnationalen mexikanischen Familien”. Erste nationale Fachtagung Kindheits- und Familienwissenschaften (HAW Hamburg, 09.-10. Februar 2015).<\/p>\n2014 \u201cRites of passage into the middle class: social differentiation through changing life-cycle celebrations in Namibia\u201d, Workshop at the International Research Center \u2018Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History\u2019: \u201cThe Making of Middle Classes: Social Mobility and Boundary Work in Global Perspective\u201d. (Organisation C. Lentz, J. Budnio and A. Noll). Berlin, 6.-8.11.2014. <\/span><\/p>\n2014 \u201cClass Switching: Implications of rural-urban mobility for emerging middle classes in Namibia”, Panel 39, VAD Conference, University of Bayreuth, 11.-14.06.2014.<\/span><\/p>\n2014 “Belonging as a new key concept in anthropological migration research?”, Workshop “Sozialwissenschaftliche Theorien in der empirischen Migrationsforschung”, University Z\u00fcrich, 30.-31.5.2014.<\/span><\/p>\n2013 “Finding, keeping and losing fathers: Reproductive networking in rural Namibia”, European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Panel Hidden dimensions: demographic trends and sexual culture in contemporary Africa. Lisbon, Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n2012. \u201eThe key to fertility. Generation, reproduction and elite formation in a Namibian community\u201c. Fertility and Reproduction Seminars: \u201eReproduction and Social Differentiation\u201c, University of Oxford, 29 October 2012.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n2012. Together with Franziska Bedorf: \u201eFrom Ultimogenitur to Senior Club. Negotiating certainties and uncertainties of growing lder between rural Mexico and urban Chicago\u201c. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, Paris, 10.-13.7.12.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2012. \u201eFamilie als Heimat. Familienleben in einer transnationalen mexikanischen Gemeinde\u201c. Interdisciplinary Conference \u201eFamilie als Kollektiv\u201c, University Passau, 23.-24.03.2012.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2011. \u201eCreating illegitimacy. Marriage, motherhood and conflicting moralities in rural Namibia\u201c. (Panel \u201eChristian engagement in times of HIV\/AIDS in Southern Africa: religious subjectivities in the field of sexuality and reproduction\u201c von Bochow and van Dijk) European Conference of African Studies, Uppsala, Schweden, 14.6.2011.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2011. \u201eKinship and cash. Ethnographic reflections on changing gender and generational relations in rural Mexico\u201c. Workshop about \u201eGender, Family and Neoliberalism\u201c by B. Beer and R. Kunz, University Luzern, Schweiz, 30.5.2011.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eAnwesend in Abwesenheit: Transnationalen Familien zwischen Mexiko und den USA\u201c. Ethnological colloquium of the Institute of Ethnology, University Hamburg, 29.6.2010.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eFamilie transnational. Migration, Reproduktion und Generation in einer transnationalen mexikanischen Gemeinde\u201c. Collective Lecture. Latinamerica Centre of K\u00f6ln University 8.6.2010.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eWann wird eine Schwester eine Schwester, ein Bruder ein Bruder? Neuere Ans\u00e4tze der Verwandtschaftsethnologie am Beispiel von Geschwisterbeziehungen\u201c. Lecture, Philosophical Faculty of K\u00f6ln University, K\u00f6ln, 5.5.2010.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2010. \u201eNamibian colonial and postcolonial elites: Creation and consolidation of power in the former Damaraland\u201c.(Panel \u201eAfrican Elite Generations\u201c A. Behrends).VAD Conference, Mainz, 7. \u2013 10.4.10.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2009. \u201eSiblings\u2019 sharing: Becoming and being sisters in Mexico and Namibia\u201c. Tagung \u201eBrother- and Sisterhood from an Anthropological Perspective\u201c, (Organisation by E. Alber and S. van der Geest) Schloss Thurnau \/ Bayreuth University; 5. \u2013 7.11.2009.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2009. Organisation oft he panel together with M. Schegg: \u201eEliten zwischen Aneignung, Anpassung und Abgrenzung\u201c. DGV Conference, Frankfurt a. Main, 30.9. \u2013 3.10.09.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2009. Together with M. Schnegg: \u201eDie weibliche Seite m\u00e4nnlicher Patronage: Elit\u00e4re Dynamiken und Geschlechterbeziehungen im ehemaligen Damaraland, Namibia\u201c. DGV Conference Frankfurt a. Main, 30.9.2009.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. Organisation oft he Panel together with E. Alber, B. Beer and M. Schnegg: \u201eVerwandtschaft heute\u201c. DGV Conference Halle, Saale, 2. \u2013 4.10.07.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. Panel together with Alber, Beer und Schnegg: \u201eWahlverwandtschaften: Struktur und Agency in der Verwandtschaftsethnologie\u201c. DGV Conference Halle, Saale, 2. \u2013 4.10.07.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. Together with S. Brandner: \u201eWem glauben? Impfentscheidungen von Eltern zwischen Internet, Verwandten und Kinderarzt\u201c. Conference \u201eMedizin im Kontext. Krankheit und Gesundheit in einer vernetzten Welt\u201c. Berlin, ZMO 28. \u2013 29.07.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. \u201eThe marriage gap: stratification and the transformation of the family in Namibia\u201c. AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Panel Oheneba-Sakyi \u201eRepresentations of the African Family of the 21st century\u201c. Leiden, Netherlands, 11. \u2013 14.7.07.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. \u201eCelebrating distinctions: Marriage and class formation in Namibia\u201c. Max-Planck-Institute for ethnological research. Halle\/Saale, 5.6.2007.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n2007. \u201eKontinuit\u00e4t und Wandel von Heirat in Namibia\u201c. Colloquium of the Institute for Ethnology of the University Hamburg, 21.6.2007.
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