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Prof. Dr. Regina Römhild holds the Professorship for Postcolonial Anthropology of Europe at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin, within the Faculty of Philosophy. She has been a professor at HU Berlin since 2009, following assistant professor positions at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2007-2009) and Goethe University Frankfurt (2000-2006). Her academic journey includes habilitation in Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2008 and a doctorate in philosophy in 1997.
Römhild's research focuses on migration, mobilities, and their role in transforming nation-state societies through transnationalization and cosmopolitanization 'from below.' Her work primarily examines these processes in urban settings, in the Mediterranean, and at the borders of Europe. She has developed the approach of 'reflexive Europeanization,' which has become central to her teaching and research agenda. She co-founded the Research Laboratory on Critical Europeanization Studies and the Research Laboratory on Migration, which have become focal points for groundbreaking cross-disciplinary debates on 'post-migrant Europe' and 'Other Europes.'
Römhild's work demonstrates how migration contributes to 'minor cosmopolitanisms,' productively challenging European self-understandings rooted in exclusively national, white frameworks. She has collaborated internationally to develop postcolonial European anthropology. Her notable projects include co-directing the transdisciplinary research project Transit Migration (2003-2006) and co-curating the related exhibition Projekt Migration (2005, Cologne). She supervises the RTG Minor Cosmopolitanisms and co-founded the Interdisciplinary Centre of Transnational Border Studies at Humboldt-Universität and the Berlin Institute of Empirical Migration Studies (BIM).
- Board of the Society for Ethnography eV
- Member of the Institute Council of the IfEE
- Representative for doctoral matters in the examination board of the IfEE
- Member of the selection committee for the Elsa Neumann scholarship
- Member of the Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research (BIM)
- Member of the Council for Migration and the Post-Migrant Society Section
Römhild's teaching covers European ethnology, migration studies, postcolonial perspectives, and critical Europeanization. Her courses include 'Postmigrant Social Research,' 'Multimodal Ethnography,' 'Migration Matters,' and 'Introduction to Critical Europeanization Studies.' She has been instrumental in establishing new research perspectives in anthropological reflection on historical and contemporary projects of Europe.
