PD Dr. Christian Strümpell

10/2015-07/2016 Research Fellow, International Research Centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History, Humboldt University Berlin

05/2009-09/2015 Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University

04/2007-04/2009 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)

10/2006-04/2007 Research Associate, Institute of Ethnology, Free University Berlin

04/2006-07/2006 Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin (uncompensated temporary appointment)

02/2000-04/2005 Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin

2004 PhD (summa cum laude), Social Anthropology, Free University of Berlin (Dissertation: Onukadili – An Industrial Settlement as a point of Confluence of pan-Indian social categories)

1999 M.A. (good), Social Anthropology, Romance Philology (Spanish) and Prehistory (Thesis: Kinship in North India: A comparison of anthropological models)

• Economic Anthropology, esp. Work, Labour and Exchange
• Anthropology of Religion, esp. Hinduism
• Urban Anthropology
• Kinship Studies
• Class and Caste
• South Asia, esp. eastern India

Conference panels and workshops (selection):

State and tribe in central-eastern India: (re)approaching a troubled and troublesome nexus. Panel co-convened with Dr. Uwe Skoda (Aarhus University) at the 22. European Conference on South Asian Studies in Lisbon, 25.-28. July 2012.

Collective action and class struggle: anthropological and historical perspectives on India's working classes. Panel co-convened with Dr. Andrew Sanchez (Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science) at the 22. European Conference on South Asian Studies in Lisbon, 25.-28. July 2012.

The Culture of Stress. Workshop co-convened with Dr. Adrian Loerbroks (Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University) and Hasan Ashraf, MA, at the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Perspective: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows, Heidelberg University, 21.-23. Mai 2012.

Industrial Work, Violence, and Stress: transdisciplinary perspectives. Workshop co-convened with Adrian Loerbroks (Mannheim Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University) at the Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Perspective: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“, Heidelberg University, December 11-12, 2010.

Rethinking Economic Zones in South Asia. Panel co-convened with Jamie Cross (Goldsmiths College London) at the 21. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn University, July 26, 2010.

Dispossession – Accumulation – Social Distress. Panel co-convened with Daniel Münster (Department of Anthropology, Halle University) and Patrick Neveling (Department of History, Bern University) at the Biannual Conference of the DGV (German Anthopological Association) in Frankfurt (Main). October 1-2, 2009

Neoliberal Crises in Post-Reform India: ethnographic perspectives on agrarian and industrial distress. Workshop co-convened with Daniel Münster (Department of Anthropology, Halle University) and Patrick Neveling (Department of History, Bern University) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale). September 23-25, 2009.

INVITED LECTURES – ACADEMIC (SELECTION):

‘Stress und Arbeit in Asien: Ethnologische Forschung zu Arbeitsbedingungen in Bangladesch’, Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd, 22 January 2014

‘On Work and Value(s) in an Odishan Steel Town’, International Workshop Current Research on Middle India and Beyond: Trends and New Perspectives, Tübingen University, 7 May 2013

‘Caste and Modernity in Indian Industries: Views from the Orissan Periphery’, Colloquium on Asian Religions, Groningen University, 22 October 2012

‘Sons of Soil, Sons of Steel’, jointly held with Andrew Sanchez, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 19 September 2012

‘Neoliberal Restructuring and Tribal Resistance: Accumulation by Dispossession and Capitalism’s Own Other around an Orissan Steel Plant’, Ethnographic Perspectives on Work and Labour Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science, 16 June 2010

‘Steel to mould the Nation: Nehru’s Vision of Postcolonial Development, India in the World Economy and the Rourkela Steel Plant’, Workshop Re-Appropriating World Market Production: Commodity Chains in the Project of Postcolonial Development (1920-2000), University of Bern, Switzerland, 19 June 2009

‘Contest for Citizenship: ‘Tribals’, ‘Locals’ and ‘Workers’ in Rourkela, Orissa’, Inaugural Conference of the Law and Social Science Research Network, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 11 January 2009

‘Ritual Conflict and Industrial Consent: Migrant Workers in Orissa’s Public Sector’, National Seminar Intangible Cultural Heritage of Orissa, Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, 17 October 2006

INVITED LECTURES – PUBLIC (SELECTION):

‘The Concept of Stress in a Transcultural Perspective: an Ethno-Epidemiological Study’, Workshop Public Health and Anthropology, Heidelberg, 28 January 2014

‘Stress und Arbeit in Asien: Ethnologische Forschung zu Arbeitsbedingungen in Bangladesch’, Studium Generale: Mainzer Universitätsgespräche, Mainz, 4 December 2013

‘Stahlstadt Rourkela: Industrielle Moderne im indischen ‘Stammesgebiet’’, Museum für Völkerkunde, Zürich, 13 December 2012

‘Gender and Industrial Labour’, Trade-union organised panel discussion on International Women’s Day, Civic Centre Rourkela, India, 8 March 2006