Dr. David Parduhn

Since 01/2014 Research fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg; member of the Forestry task Deforestation and Development of the BMBF-funded Southern African Science Service Center for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL)

09/2013 - 12/2013 Conduct of qualitative interviews in the Lower Oder Valley International Park on the perception of landscape changes and the impact of tourism development (Faculty of Business, Landscape Management and Nature Conservation, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)

10/2011 - 09/2013 Assistant lecturer, tutor and student advisor at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin

since 11/2012 Swahili teacher at Sprachenatelier Berlin – School of Languages, Arts and Culture

03/2012 - 08/2012 Youth Officer and Programme Assistant Social Sciences at the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, Nairobi

09/2012 - 11/2012 Student research assistant at the Human Remains Project, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin

04/2012 Invitation to present the paper Othering in the 'War on Terror' at the Brussels School of International Studies post-graduate conference, University of Kent, UK

08/2011 - 09/2011 Summer School on inter-ethnic and inter-faith relations tolerance in Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation); scholarship provided by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

10/2010 - 11/2011 Postgradudate studies at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton UK, scholarship provided by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
MA Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation
Title of the disseration: The Religious Turn: On the shifting perception of Turkish migrants in Germany; awarded the Bill and Scarlett Epstein Prize for the best dissertation in Anthropology

10/2010 Trained on participatory methods in international development planning, power relations in development projects (workshop series by Robert Chambers, Institute of Development Studies, UK)

09/2010 - 08/2011 Conduct of qualitative interviews for the University of Sussex based project Hidden histories of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Brighton and Hove, UK

07/2010-10/2010 Swahili language course at the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), Tanzania, including history and ethnographic studies; scholarship provided by DAAD

10/2007 - 07/2010 Undergraduate studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, scholarship provided by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
BA Area Studies Asia/Africa and Social Sciences
Title of the dissertation: Political Ethnicity in Kenya: On the development of an ethnic consciousness and its political relevance in the Rift Valley Province (in German)

03/2009 - 09/2009 Studies at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

10/2007 - 02/2008 Preparation and participation at the international conference Perspectives of democratisation and peace-building in the Great Lakes Region at the Centre for Conflict Studies of the Philipps University of Marburg (DAAD-sponsored)

1987 born in Radebeul

Collaborator in "Deforestation and Development" (Subproject of SASSCAL)
BMBF, 2012-2016

• Anthropology of Development
• Political ecology (deforestation, land-use change, land rights)
• Environmental knowledge (ethnobotany, sexual medicine, wildlife)
• Collective identities and identity politics
• Participatory research methods, oral history, narrative interviews
• Research/Response biases (cognitive biases, memory biases)
• Regional: Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Swahili coast, Germany

• 26th African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK) Conference, University of Cambridge, 7-9^th September 2016: 'Clearing Zambia's Central Plateau – Contemporary practices of deforestation and conservation in a high rainfall area'

• Anthropological Lecture Series at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Hamburg, 18^th October 2018