Research projects

Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations

Principal Investigator: Dr. Lena Kaufmann

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Dairy Cultures: The coevolution of Genes, Cultures and Microbiomes

Matthäus Rest and Björn Reichhardt

Principal Investigator: Christina Warinner

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Dairy Struggles: Milk, Microbes and the Politics of Time

Principal Investigator: Matthäus Rest

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Sources of Wealth: Milk, Microbes, and the Making of Heritage in Central Asian Pastoralism

Principal Investigator: Björn Reichhardt

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Participative Security. The impacts of bug bounty on digital vulnerability management at Swiss Post and beyond. 

Principal Investigators: David Bozzini and Luca Perrig

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Des bénévoles sur l’Alpe. Une ethnographie de l’aide non-monétaire aux paysan·ne·s de montagne en Valais.

Andrea Boscoboinik

Principal Investigator: Viviane Cretton

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Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing with Reused Building Materials

Principal Investigator: Prof. Madlen Kobi

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Maintaining Relations: Community-owned Hydropower Infrastructure Through Time

Principal Investigator: Prof. Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

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Negotiating citizenship on the margins of the Ukrainian state

Researcher: Dr. Oleksandra Tarkhanova, Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Governance and Culture in Europe, University of St. Gallen

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Gender Sensitive Research and Teaching: Expanding Collaboration between Switzerland, Armenia, Georgia and Uzbekistan

Contact person: Dr. Andrea Boscoboinik

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Managers and Imams: Saving Humanity in High Asia

Principal Investigator: Till Mostowlansky

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ROADWORK: An Anthropology of Infrastructure at China’s Inner Asian Borders

Principal Investigator: Prof. Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

Duration: August 2018 – July 2022 (48 months)

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Gender Sensitive Research in Armenia and Switzerland: New Ideas for a Neglected Aspect

Principal Investigator: Dr. Andrea Boscoboinik

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Windows of exposure: towards an anthropology of computer (in)security and its controversies

Direction: David Bozzini 

PhD student: Sylvain Besençon

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Devenir local en zone de montagne : diversification, gentrification, cohabitation. Une comparaison Alpes suisses-Pyrénées espagnoles

Requérante principale : Viviane Cretton
Co-requérante : Andrea Boscoboinik

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La délégation de la garde des enfants à des travailleuses domestiques

Direction: Véronique Pache

Rapport final déposé, ouvrage en cours de rédaction. (Recherche financée par le CEDIC, Genève)

A Dam Deferred: Nepal’s unfinished infrastructures

Principal Investigator: Matthäus Rest

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