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Catherine Whittaker is a Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt, with a tenure-track W1 professorship. She serves as Managing Director of the Institute of International Humanities and is actively involved in the Committee for Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination at Department 8. Her work spans feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial methodologies, focusing on security regimes, militarization, and gender-based violence in transnational contexts.
Research Focus: Dr. Whittaker’s scholarship explores the intersection of vigilance, structural violence, and transnational activism, particularly among racialized groups and women in Latin America. Her projects have been funded by prestigious institutions such as the DFG, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and ESRC. Recent work examines the paradoxes of love and violence in Mexican coloniality.
Publications & Collaborations: She co-authored Watchful Lives in the US-Mexico Borderlands (DeGruyter, 2023) and Vigilance and Subjectivity (DeGruyter, 2023). Her 2024 article on feminist decolonial perspectives in Conflict and Society highlights security dynamics among Mexican-American women. She co-edits the journal Feminist Anthropology and contributes to racism criticism initiatives within the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology.
Advising & Education: Dr. Whittaker supervises doctoral students including Akemi Matsumura Vásquez, Mathias Hartmann, and Desta Lorenso Girma. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, London School of Economics, University of Oxford, and the University of Bonn, and has held visiting scholar roles at Brown University, UC San Diego, and UNAM.
