Research focus
- Neonationalism/illiberalism in Hungary in the context of Europeanization and globalization
- Eastern Europe and post-decolonial theory
- History and epistemologies of anthropology/ethnology as a national science in Eastern Europe (German-speaking area and Hungary)
- Historical concepts of race in Eastern Europe (German-speaking area and Hungary)
- Colonial-imperial entanglements of physical anthropology in the Habsburg monarchy (19th century) and in Hungary as a post-imperial successor state (1920-1944). In cooperation with Dr. Margit Berner, curator of the anthropological department of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NHMW).
Biography
Katrin Kremmler studied Empirical Cultural Studies/European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology and Art History in Tübingen, Berlin (HU) and Budapest (ELTE), and holds a Master of Multimedia Design (MMDes) from Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), The University of Sydney. She is working on her PhD at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin, with Prof. Regina Römhild and Prof. Margit Feischmidt (Budapest/Pécs) on the cultural dimension of Hungary’s Eastern Opening Policy, the geopolitical orientation towards Türkiye and Central Asia, in the 2014-2023 period, with special focus on the new role of bioarchaeology and archaeogenetics as 'national sciences' for the illiberal project of revising and re-designing the epistemic foundations of national heritage, culture and identity. In line with the complexity of the topic she researches and publishes multidirectionally and collaboratively on interdisciplinary platforms with a regional focus on East-Central Europe (social and political sciences, history and archaeology, bioarchaeology, gender studies). In 2019, she was a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Ethnological Research in Halle/Saale.
Katrin Kremmler joined the Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology subject area at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in April 2023 as a research and teaching associate.