Karin Bürkert

Karin Bürkert is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology (Ludwig-Uhland-Institute) at the University of Tübingen. Her research focuses on rural transformations through energy transition, cultural/landscape valorization, and intersections between material culture and gender studies. She curates the Archive of Everyday Culture, heads the EKW publishing house, and serves as equity officer.

Education: PhD in History of Knowledge Production from Göttingen University's cultural anthropology institute. Her work bridges academic research with public engagement through exhibitions and publications.

Research emphasizes how rural communities navigate energy policy changes, with recent projects examining nuclear energy legacies and cultural resource strategies in marginalized regions. Her 2024 edited volume explores neighbor relations with nuclear power plants, while 2023 work analyzes contested memory around Southwest German atomic energy history.

Professional roles include:

• Archive of Everyday Culture curator
• Head of EKW publishing house
• Equity officer at the institute

Labs/teams: Active in interdisciplinary projects linking cultural anthropology with environmental humanities and gender studies.