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Cassis Kilian is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Since January 2023, she has been a research associate leading the project Humour as an Epistemic Practice of the Political Present (NoJoke) under Mirco Göpfert's supervision. With a professional background as an actress spanning two decades, she transitioned to academia and earned her doctorate in anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2011.
Her research sits at the intersection of:
- Humor and epistemology
- Artistic methodologies in anthropological research
- Phenomenological and ontological approaches
- Sensory anthropology
- Art anthropology
- Cosmopolitanism
Her publications reveal strong interdisciplinary work combining anthropological fieldwork with performance studies, media analysis, and postcolonial theory. She has contributed extensively to debates on racial representation in African cinema, methodological innovations in ethnographic research, and the role of humor in political discourse.
