Richard Rottenburg
German Social Anthropologist
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- PhD Social Anthropology University of Bremen
- Masters Social Anthropology University of Bremen
- Bachelors Social Anthropology University of Bremen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Walter Rottenburg is an Anthropologist of Science and Technology and Professor at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand. Academic life Rottenburg studied social anthropology, sociology and Arab studies at the Free University of Berlin. For his PhD in anthropology he conducted 39 months of fieldwork in South Kordofan . Between 1984-1987, he lectured at the University of Transkei, South Africa. Later he did research on formal organization in companies and city administrations in Europe. In the 1990s Rottenburg worked as a consultant for projects in development cooperation, carrying out research in Africa and Europe. These engagements provided him with the ethnographic material for his habilitation, which he completed at Viadrina European University in 1999. In 2002 Rottenburg became full professor and founding director of the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. There he established a research group around his research focus on Law, Organisation, Science and Technology . From 2006-2012 he was a Max Planck Fellow, heading a project on Biomedicine in Africa. He was head or spokesperson of several research programs. On February 8 and 9, 2013, the conference 'How to put models into practice? African perspectives on technologies of ordering in legal, organisational and medical contexts' was held in Halle to celebrate his work and his 60th birthday. In 2011 he co-initiated the Network for Science and Technology Studies in Africa, a platform that aims at advancing Science and Technology Studies in Africa. Richard Rottenburg has been appointed as Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School for Social Research in New York for the academic year 2014/15.
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