Contact
Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis
Oettingenstr. 67
D - 80538 Munich
Room:
U 103
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9633
Email:
Frauke.Ahrens@ekwee.uni-muenchen.de
Current research project
Further information
I am a European ethnologist especially interested in the history of science and historical approaches to cultural analysis, material culture, the materiality of knowledge, and scientific collections. I received my education at the universities of Münster (BA—Cultural and Social Anthropology, Art History) and Göttingen (MA—Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology), where I graduated in 2019. Since June 2020, I have been a part of the ERC-project Dissecting Society. Nineteenth-Century Sociographic Journalism and the Formation of Ethnographic and Sociological Knowledge, where I focus on the connections between sociographic journalism, visual culture, and the early beginnings of the institutionalized discipline of folklore/Volkskunde in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Currently, I explore the impacts of journalistic and visual forms of social observation and representation on early actors in the field of folklore/Volkskunde in the German-speaking countries and France.