Johana Wyss
I am a Social and Cultural Anthropologist, focusing on the dynamic relationship between collective identity and cultural collective memory. The main questions that drive my intellectual curiosity relate to the political use of the past in the present, to possibilities and limits of collective identity formation, and to exploring the most suitable methods and methodological positions to research these areas.
I completed my doctoral research at the University of Oxford in 2018 with a thesis entitled Silesian Identity: the Interplay of Memory, History and Borders. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in the Silesian borderlands (Opava and the Hlučín area), I provided an ethnographic account of how ostracised minority groups negotiate their collective identities and difficult heritage vis-à-vis national sentiments and nation-state apparatus within the social and historical context of Central Europe.
In addition to my doctoral research, I coordinated and delivered Undergraduate and Postgraduate classes, seminars, and tutorials at the University of Oxford and elsewhere. These classes included Introduction to Memory Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Anthropology of Europe, Social Psychology, and Methods and Methodology in Social Sciences.
Supervisors: Dr Robert Parkin and Dr Nicolette Makovicky
I completed my doctoral research at the University of Oxford in 2018 with a thesis entitled Silesian Identity: the Interplay of Memory, History and Borders. Based on longitudinal fieldwork in the Silesian borderlands (Opava and the Hlučín area), I provided an ethnographic account of how ostracised minority groups negotiate their collective identities and difficult heritage vis-à-vis national sentiments and nation-state apparatus within the social and historical context of Central Europe.
In addition to my doctoral research, I coordinated and delivered Undergraduate and Postgraduate classes, seminars, and tutorials at the University of Oxford and elsewhere. These classes included Introduction to Memory Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Anthropology of Europe, Social Psychology, and Methods and Methodology in Social Sciences.
Supervisors: Dr Robert Parkin and Dr Nicolette Makovicky
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The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, invites applications to joining an ambitious research project on memory and populism in European transnational borderland regions. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the transnational borderland region of Istria (other European borderland regions are also possible).
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Postdoctoral-position-research-in-Istria/
The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, invites applications to joining an ambitious research project on memory and populism in European transnational borderland regions. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the transnational borderland region of Galicia in Eastern Europe (other European borderland regions are also possible).
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Postdoctoral-position-research-in-Galicia/
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The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, invites applications to joining an ambitious research project on memory and populism in European transnational borderland regions. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the transnational borderland region of Istria (other European borderland regions are also possible).
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Postdoctoral-position-research-in-Istria/
The Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, invites applications to joining an ambitious research project on memory and populism in European transnational borderland regions. The postdoctoral researcher will conduct ethnographic fieldwork in the transnational borderland region of Galicia in Eastern Europe (other European borderland regions are also possible).
https://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/news/Postdoctoral-position-research-in-Galicia/