At the University of Fribourg, I taught undergraduate courses on ethnographic methods where I developed a syllabus that is focused on the training of applying ethnographic research methods and ethnographic writing techniques.

I was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2017-2019) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2019-2023) in the ERC-funded multidisciplinary research projects “Heirloom Microbes” and “Dairy Cultures”, which focused on the co-evolution and cultural legacy of ancient dairy bacteria and human gut microbiomes in Mongolia.

In 2022, I was awarded the Silk Roads Youth Research Grant issued by the UNESCO Silk Roads Programme, through which I was able to realize my research project "Sources of Wealth: Milk, Microbes, and the Making of Heritage in Central Asian Pastoralism.”

In my work, I value critical, reflected, and collaborative research approaches and I am committed to knowledge transfer based on local engagements and public outreach formats beyond academia.

I am furthermore a member of the Audio-Visual Commission of the Swiss Anthropological Association where I represent the University of Fribourg and engage in the organization of academic and public events and knowledge transfer.

List of publications:

• Reichhardt, B. 2023: “Embracing Landscape: Living with Reindeer and Hunting among Spirits in South Siberia by Selcen Küçüküstel” Inner Asia 25(1). Book review. Pp. 178-181. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105018-02501020
• Reichhardt, B. and Abrahms-Kavunenko, S. 2022: “Plastic Purity and Sacred Dairy: Microbes, Vitality and Standardisation in Mongolian Dairying” Copenhagen Journal for Asian Studies 40(1). Pp. 66-90. https://doi.org/10.22439/cjas.v40i1.6556
• Joniak-Lüthi, A., Rippa, A., Clendenning, J., DiCarlo, J., Erie, M.S., Hirsh, M., Karrar, H.H., La Mela, V., Lu, J., Mostowslansky, T., Murton, G., Ng, H., Norum, R., Oakes, T., Plachta, N., Reichhardt, B., Sarma, J., Sulek, E., Tang, D., Urmanbetova, Z., and T. White. 2022: “Demystifying the Belt and Road Initiative”, Fribourg, Munich, Boulder. Available at: https://bri.roadworkasia.com/
• Oakes, T., Clendenning, J., DiCarlo, J., Erie, M.S., Hirsh, Joniak-Lüthi, A., M., Karrar, H.H., La Mela, V., Lu, J., Mostowslansky, T., Murton, G., Ng, H., Norum, R., Oakes, T., Plachta, N., Reichhardt, B., Rippa, A., Sarma, J., Sulek, E., Tang, D., Urmanbetova, Z., and T. White. 2022: “China’s global development model: Looking beyond the Belt and Road Initiative”, Fribourg, Munich, Boulder. Available at: https://chinadevelopmentmodel.roadworkasia.com/
• Reichhardt, B., Enkh-Amgalan, Z., Rest, M., Warinner, C. 2021: “Enduring Cycles: Documenting Dairying in Mongolia and the Alps” Current Anthropology 62(S24), special issue “Cultures of Fermentation” edited by Matthäus Rest, Jessica Hendy, Mark Aldenderfer and Christina Warinner, Pp. 343-348. https://doi.org/10.1086/716065
• Reichhardt, B. 2021: “From anatomic analogies to arrhythmic timescapes: Roads and development in northern Mongolia” Central Asian Survey, 41(2), special issue “Technology, temporality and the study of Central Asia” edited by Julia Obertreis and Jonas van der Straeten. Pp. 277-296 https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2021.1957777
• Reichhardt, B. 2021: “Pastoral Dairying in Rural Mongolia: Microbes as Heritage” Archaeology of Food and Foodways (1). Pp. 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1558/aff.15577