Grit Wesser

Grit Wesser is a DAAD guest lecturer at the Institute of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies within the College of Philosophy and Philology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is a social anthropologist with expertise in the interplay between kinship and state structures.

• Education:
  • MA (Hons) in Social Anthropology and Politics (2011), University of Edinburgh
  • PhD in Social Anthropology (2016), University of Edinburgh
• Research Focus:
  • Historical and ethnographic analysis of kinship-state dynamics
  • Trust, intimacy, and surveillance
  • Secrecy, knowledge, and food anthropology