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Bettina Beer is a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne since 2008, previously serving as full professor at the University of Heidelberg (2006-2008). She currently holds a visiting professorship at EASt for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Her educational background includes a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Hamburg (1995) focusing on German-Philippine marriages and interethnic migration, followed by habilitation in 2001 on body concepts, interethnic relations, and racism theories.
Professor Beer's research centers on anthropological kinship systems, migration dynamics, and gendered intercultural relations. She has conducted extensive longitudinal fieldwork in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea while examining cultural diversity across German-speaking Europe. Her current project investigates ruptures in intimate relationships through empirical analysis of marital separation and annulment processes in the Philippines, addressing fundamental conceptual questions in kinship anthropology.
Her distinguished scientific recognition includes:
- Siemers-Preis award from Hamburg University
- Heisenberg Research Fellowship from the German Research Foundation
- Election to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy's Young Academy (2003)
- Leibniz Chair appointment at Bremen's Tropical Marine Ecology Center (2011)
She has secured major research funding including the prestigious Heisenberg fellowship, demonstrating sustained scholarly impact. As co-editor of Sociologus journal, she actively shapes anthropological discourse while maintaining her commitment to integrating cutting-edge research with pedagogical practice across all anthropology domains.
