Michael Pröpper

Dr. Michael Pröpper serves as a Researcher at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology within the Department of Cultural History and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Hamburg. He holds a Research Associate position for the BMBF-funded \"The Future Okavango\" project, investigating land use and ecosystem services interactions across Angola, Namibia, and Botswana. His office is located at Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügelbau West (Room 231), 20146 Hamburg.

His research expertise spans:

• Environmental Anthropology (Political Ecology, Biodiversity, Cultural Ecosystem Services, Social-Ecological Systems)
• Material Culture and Embodiment (Craft, Art, Nutrition)
• Witchcraft and Kinship Studies
• Experimental Economics in African contexts
• Postcolonial Studies with regional focus on Southern Africa

His 2019-2020 publications reveal interdisciplinary convergence of anthropology with art, economics, and environmental science. Key trends include multivocal art-anthropology encounters addressing Namibian postcolonial realities and experimental economic analyses of forest governance systems. His work consistently integrates local knowledge with scientific frameworks to examine socio-ecological challenges.

Dr. Pröpper provides Bachelor-level consultation and ABK (Arts and Cultural Studies) advising. He has secured significant research funding including the \"The Future Okavango\" project (BMBF, 2010) and prior involvement in BIOTA Southern-Africa (2003-2008) and BIOLOG III (2009), demonstrating sustained grant acquisition capacity.

He co-leads the \"The Future Okavango\" research consortium involving Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Centre (Botswana), Universidade Agostinho Neto (Angola), and University of Bremen, with field teams operating across Namibia's Kavango region.