Michaela Haug

Prof. Dr. Michaela Haug is a Professor and Director of the Freiburg Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Her academic career includes Habilitation (2021) at Universität zu Köln and a 'summa cum laude' PhD from Freiburg (2009). She specializes in Southeast Asia's socio-ecological transformations, focusing on environmental anthropology, political ecology, and future-making frameworks.

Education:

• PhD (2009): 'Poverty and Decentralisation in East Kalimantan' (Freiburg)
• Habilitation (2021): 'Living on a Resource Frontier: Power, Gender and Future Making in Indonesian Borneo' (Cologne)
• M.A. (2003): 'Resource Perception and Land Rights of Dayak Benuaq' (Cologne)
• Studies in Ethnology, Art History, Malay Studies, and Philosophy (Karlsruhe, Cologne, Yogyakarta)

Research: Her work examines environmental change, resource frontiers, and socio-economic dynamics in Indonesia's East Kalimantan. Current projects include 'Future-Making, Environmental Change and Socio-economic Transformations' (DFG-funded, 2019–2025) and interdisciplinary plant biology studies (BiPoN forum, Cologne).

Publications: Over 20 authored/co-edited books and numerous articles in American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, and Routledge series. Recent focus on biodiversity-food security linkages and youth futures in Borneo.

Awards: Faculty Prize for MA thesis (2003), 'summa cum laude' PhD (2009).

Grants/Teams: Leads DFG projects; collaborates with CIFOR and international networks. Supervises researchers like Dr. Deasy Simandjuntak and David Meschede.

Labs/Initiatives: Freiburg Environmental Humanities; 'Sharing a Planet in Peril' research initiative.