Ernst Halbmayer

Ernst Halbmayer is a University Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Philipps University of Marburg. His career spans roles at the University of Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Laboratoire d'Anthropologie sociale, Paris. He holds a M.A. in Sociology (Vienna, 1991), Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology (Vienna, 1997), and Habilitation in Cultural and Social Anthropology (Vienna, 2008).

• Research Focus: Indigenous Modernities, Environmental Anthropology, Conflict Studies, Amazonian and Isthmo-Colombian Societies, Cosmology, and Anthropology of Nature.
• Current Projects: EU HORIZON 'Entangling Indigenous Knowledges in Universities', DAAD 'German-Brazilian Anthropology Relations', BMBF 'Agency and Ethics – Sensitive Objects in University Collections'.

Notable Contributions: Pioneering work on Yukpa and Chibcha-speaking communities, mythological frameworks, and decolonizing methodologies. His recent publications examine security from marginalized perspectives and climate change's socio-cultural dimensions.

• Students: Supervised 11 completed Ph.D.s and 8 ongoing projects, including studies on Indigenous responses to deforestation, transitional justice, and ecological resilience.
• Leadership: Head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Office hours in Summer Semester 2025: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 PM (Room 00/1060, Marburg).