Maren Jordan, M.A.

Since 11/2020 Lecturer for the subjects Islamic Studies and Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg and Ruhr-University Bochum

Since 02/2016 PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg | working title: "From Fate to Design? Fertility Decline, Generational Change, and the Planning of the Family in Oman".

04/ 2016 - 06/2017 Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Sultanate of Oman

02/2016 - 02/2019 Research Fellow and PhD-candidate in the DFG-funded research project “Fertility Transition in the Sultanate of Oman: Anthropological Approaches to Demographic Dynamics”

11 - 12/ 2015 Explorative Fieldwork in the Sultanate of Oman

Since 08/2014 Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg.

12/2012 - 06/2013 Research Assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg

10/2008 - 10/2012 Student Assistant at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg

07/2014 Magister Artium in Social & Cultural Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Hamburg. Title of the Master’s thesis: «Verlobt, verheiratet, verschuldet? Heirat als Spiegel sozialer Differenzierungsprozesse in Kerala, Südindien /  Engaged, Married, Indepted? Marriage as a mirror of social differentiation processes in Kerala, South India. » (1,0 with distinction)

06 - 10/2012 Ethnographic field work in Kerala, South India under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Julia Pauli, University of Hamburg (with a research grant from DAAD)

06/2011 - 11/2011 Study of Modern Standard Arabic at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan (funded by STIP OUT, University of Hamburg).

06 - 10/2010 Ethnographic field research on «The impacts of male migration on marriage patterns and family structures in Kerala, India », under the academic supervision of Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg, University of Hamburg (funded by DAAD)

07 - 08/2008 Ethnographic field research in Dubai on «Indian labor migrants in the UAE»

2006 - 2014 Student of Social & Cultural Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Hamburg.

11/2020 "Fertility Dynamics and Generational Change in Oman: Perspectives from Anthropological Demography." Guest Lecture, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lucerne, 17.11.2020.

11/2019 Doing Fieldwork in the Middle East. Guest lecture in Prof. Dr. Najma Al-Zidjali's seminar “Language and Society” , Sultan-Qaboos-University, Oman, 13th November 2019.

10/2019 Politics of Motherhood and the Limits of Negotiation in Oman. Annual Meeting of the German Anthropological Association 2019, University of Constance, 01.10.2019.

02/2019 "African Slave Descendants in Oman: Tracing Contemporary Life Worlds. " Vortrag auf dem internationalen SLAFNET Workshop (Slavery in Africa: A Dialogue between Africa and Europe), Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 05.02.2019.

10/2018 The Right Time To Marry - Renegotiations of Marriage Timing among Women in Northern Oman. Workshop "Marriage and Modernity in Comparative Perspective" organized by Julia Pauli and Maren Jordan, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, 27.10.2018.

05/2018 God’s Gift or Medical Risk? - Pregnancy, Birth, and Family Planning in the Sultanate of Oman. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, 15.05.2018. (Abstract)

05/2018 Methoden ethnologischer Feldforschung: Beispiele aus aktueller Forschungspraxis im Sultanat Oman. (Methods of anthropological fieldwork: examples from current research practice in Oman). Department of Oriental & Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen, 03.05.2018.

09/2017 “Don’t harm my body!” Women’s Resistance against the Medicalization of their Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Oman. In Panel 59 “Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Islamicate Societies: Law, Medicine and Literature” organized by Serena Tolino and Nijmi Edres; German Oriental Studies Conference (DOT), 18.–22. September 2017, Jena.

• Anthropological Demography
• Population Politics
• Kinship, Fertility and Reproduction
• Interculturality and Diversity in Reproductive Health
• Anthropology of the Middle East
• Migration and Transnationalism
• Arabian Gulf States (Oman) & South Asia (India)

Panel-Organization: "The End of Negotiations in the Middle East? Debating the Power of Everyday Life and Scopes for Action after Post-Islamism." German Anthropological Association Conference 2019 | 01.10.2019 | University of Constance. Organizers: Claudia Liebelt & Maren Jordan. (Abstracts)

Workshop-Organization: "Marriage and Modernity in Comparative Perspective" | 27.10.2018 | University of Hamburg. Organizers: Julia Pauli & Maren Jordan. (Program & Abstracts)