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Prof. Dr. Melina Kalfelis Prof. Dr. Melina C. Kalfelis
Prof. Dr. Melina Kalfelis

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Scientific Career:

  • since Mai 2023: Juniorprofessor for Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Social Belonging – University of Bayreuth
  • 2022-2023: Postdoc in the research initiative „ConTrust: Trust in Conflict“ – Goethe-University Frankfurt
  • 2021-2022: Research Associate (postdoc) of Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends at the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology – University of Bayreuth
  • 2020: Visiting Fellow at „Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa“ – University of Legon (5 months)
  • 2020: Visiting Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence „Africa Multiple” –  University of Bayreuth (6 months)
  • 2019: VolkswagenStiftung Visiting Fellow at the Institute for African Affairs – German Institute of Global and Area Studies Hamburg (7 months)
  • 2015-2018: Collaborative Research Center 1095 “Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes”
  • 2014-2015: Doctoral Scholarship at the „International Graduate Center for the Study of Cultures“ (GCSC) – Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

Education:

  • 2019: PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Topic: NGO als Lebenswelt. Transnationale Verflechtungen im Arbeitsalltag von Entwicklungsakteuren" (Campus, 2020) – Justus-Liebig-University Gießen / Goethe-University Frankfurt
  • 2013: Magister Artium (excellent) in Historical Anthropology, Political Science and Psychoanalysis – Goethe-University Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Melina Kalfelis

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Melina C. Kalfelis is a Juniorprofessor of Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Social Belonging. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection of social, political, and visual anthropology, and she specializes in phenomenological approaches. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in West Africa and Western Europe, she is currently building a chair that investigates human lifeworlds and ordinary practices of violence, crime, and belonging in contexts shaped by histories of global inequality. Her main interests regard questions on ethics, governance, media, gender, and dynamics of (dis)trust in conflict settings and how these transgress and link intimate, political, and transnational domains of everyday life. Her chair will further lead research into temporalities and practices of power and bureaucracy within (post-)colonial formations of development and security intervention.

Melina C. Kalfelis also has a specialized interest in filmmaking and photography.  Her latest documentary, "NGO Crossroads" (2019, 40 min.), was officially selected by the FESPACO Film Festival 2019 and the International Science Film Festival 2020.

More information on https://mkalfelis.wordpress.com/.

Prof. Dr. Melina Kalfelis

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Publications

2023

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Gewalt : ein Politikum
in Afrika-Bulletin (2023) issue 190. - page 4-5

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Le "partenariat" - un euphémisme : Sur les Cultures de la Coopération Transnationale en Afrique ...
L'avenir des ONG en Afrique de l'Ouest
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2023. - page 221-239 . - (Études africaines)

2022

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Beyond Donor Memory : On Time and Power behind the Curtain of Transnational Development in Burk ...
in Anthropologie & Développement volume 53 (2022) . - page 137-153
doi:10.4000/anthropodev.1803 ...

2021

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Den Sahel neu denken : Zur Zukunft von Staat, Klimaschutz und Friedensinitiativen ; Briefing
in Peacebuilding Forum
. Oktober 2021
https://www.frient.de/publikationen/den-sahel-neu- ...

Kalfelis, Melina C.
reviewed by: Degorce, Alice ; Kibora, Ludovic O. ; Langewiesche, Katrin (Hrsg.): Rencontres religieuses et d ...
in Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines (2021) issue 241. - page 218-221
doi:10.4000/etudesafricaines.33413 ...

Kalfelis, Melina C.; Knodel, Kathrin
Introduction : The Lifeworlds and Trajectories of NGOs in Africa
NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa : Transdisciplinary Perspectives
New York : Berghahn, 2021

2021

NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa : Transdisciplinary Perspectives
publ: Kalfelis, Melina C.; Knodel, Kathrin
New York : Berghahn, 2021

Kalfelis, Melina C.; Kabore, Amado
Le paradoxe de la violence et de la sécurité : L’Avenir de la lutte contre le terrorisme et l'i ...
Crise sécuritaire dans les pays du G5 Sahel : comprendre pour agir
Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021

Kalfelis, Melina C.
With or Without the State : Moral Divergence and the Question of Trust in Security Assemblages ...
in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding volume 15 (2021) issue 5. - page 598-613
doi:10.1080/17502977.2021.1986255 ...

2020

Kalfelis, Melina C.
NGO als Lebenswelt : Transnationale Verflechtungen im Arbeitsalltag von Entwicklungsakteuren
Frankfurt am Main : Campus, 2020. - 348 page

2019

Kalfelis, Melina C.; Knodel, Kathrin
reviewed by: Lashaw, Amanda ; Vannier, Christian ; Sampson, Steven (Eds.): Cultures of Doing Good : Anthropo ...
in Anthropos volume 114 (2019) issue 1. - page 272-273
doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2019-1-272 ...

2018

Galindo, David Rex; Kalfelis, Melina C.; Nomey, José Luis Paz
Agency and Asymmetries : Actors and their Access to Resources in Colonial and Developmental Set ...
Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes : Trajectories of a New Research Program
Frankfurt am Main : Campus, 2018. - page 293-327

2016

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Reflections on Hunger in Burkina Faso
in On_Culture : The Open Journal for the Study of Culture (2016) issue 1
http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2016/12059 ...

2015

Kalfelis, Melina C.
reviewed by: Experts Fighting Global Poverty : An Alarming Analysis
in KULT_online volume 42 (2015)
doi:10.22029/ko.2015.892 ...
reviewed: Easterly, William: The Tyranny of Experts : Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. New York, 2014

Kalfelis, Melina C.
Flexibel aus Armut : Die Lebenswelt von lokalen Entwicklungsakteuren in Burkina Faso vor dem Hi ...
in Paideuma volume 61 (2015) . - page 143-164
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44242878

Prof. Dr. Melina Kalfelis

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Prof. Dr. Melina C. Kalfelis
Juniorprofessor of Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Social Belonging /Melina C. Kalfelis is on parental leave until February 2025

University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II
Room: 00.17
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​D-95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4133

E-mail: melina.kalfelis@uni-bayreuth.de

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