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Hanna Büdenbender is a Scientific Associate at the Saarland University within the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy. She holds a PhD from the Technical University of Darmstadt (2018) and has held research and curatorial roles at institutions including the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation.
- Research Focus: Visual culture of migration, tropicality in photography, border studies, and tourism aesthetics
- Collaborations: Trier Center for Digital Humanities (TCDH), Käte Hamburger Research Center global dis:connect
Teaching: Courses on border theory, art criticism, and methodologies of visual studies at Saarland University. Her work bridges art history with contemporary social issues like transnationalism and postcolonial critique.
Publications include analyses of photographic representations of migration, tropical imagery in tourism, and critical reviews of art-historical scholarship. Notable projects include "The US-Mexico Borderlands: Photography and Migration since the 1890s" and "Placing 'Smart Borders' in Historical Context".
Conference Leadership: Organizer of sections like "Artists and Places" at the Art & Place Conference (2025) and "Tropicality and Transculturation" at AAANZ (2018). She has presented at venues from Warsaw to São Paulo.
