Max Müller

Max Müller is a Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 'Affective Societies' at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and Philosophy in the Faculty of Philosophy I. His research focuses on Vietnamese diaspora communities in Berlin, particularly exploring care practices around death, religious rituals, and anti-racist mobilization. Müller supports the threatened East Berlin pagoda community through engaged anthropology and volunteers with intercultural hospice service DongBangJa.

Education: Studies in Social/Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies at Georg-August University Göttingen and Vietnam National University Hanoi. Research themes include transnational mobilities, postmigration realities, and affective dimensions of care. Regional expertise in Vietnamese Berlin and transnational Vietnamese communities.

Recent presentations address topics like digital deathscapes, pandemic-era care responses, and historical racism in GDR contexts. His work bridges ethnographic fieldwork with activist solidarity, highlighting intersectional challenges faced by migrant communities in healthcare and urban spaces.