Judit Tavakoli

Judit Tavakoli is a Scientific Associate at the Institute of Ethnology (Department 08), Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, focusing on North Africa and Western Sahara. She serves as ERASMUS+ coordinator and Equal Opportunities Officer for FB 08, with expertise in migration, identity, material culture, and cultural heritage. Her research integrates anthropology of art and linguistic anthropology, addressing postcolonial contexts and refugee camp dynamics.

Tavakoli’s publications and lectures emphasize transnational family networks, cyberactivism, and accompanied research methodologies. She co-organized panels on ethnographic dissonance and political aesthetics, and her work explores the intersection of statelessness and cultural resilience. Her recent projects analyze the Sahrawi refugee camps during pandemics and war, alongside material identity shifts in exile communities.

She contributes to academic networks like the DGSKA AG Familie im Feld and serves on the editorial board of the journal Tifariti (2025). Her email address is j.tavakoli@em.uni-frankfurt.de.