Marieke Brandt

Marieke Brandt is a senior researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), specializing in the anthropology and social/intellectual history of Yemen. Her work focuses on the Houthi movement, tribal dynamics, and digital ethnographic methods developed during wartime fieldwork limitations.

• Research Focus: Ansar Allah ideology, tribal-state relations, digital anthropology, and biographical approaches to Yemeni history.
• Projects: Leads 'Entangled Ideology' (2025), digitized Walter Dostal's visual archives (2023-2024), and directed projects on tribalism and energy politics (2015-2021).
• Awards: Recipient of MSCA-IEF fellowship and acclaim for groundbreaking monographs.
• Publications: Peer-reviewed work in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Medieval Worlds, and Anthropology of the Middle East, with Arabic translations amplifying regional impact.

Her disability (80% deafness) is integral to her profile, demonstrating academic resilience.