معرفی
Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess is a Professor at the University of Göttingen's Institute for Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology since 2011 and serves as Executive Director of the Center for Global Migration Studies (CeMig) since 2018. With academic training from Tübingen, Birmingham's CCCS, Frankfurt (PhD in Cultural Anthropology), and affiliations in Berlin and Munich, she specializes in political anthropology of migration and border regimes.
- Founded the open-access journal movements for Critical Migration Studies
- Created the Laboratory for Critical Migration and Border Regime Research
- Leads the network krnet for critical migration research
Her research focuses on border regime dynamics, gender in migration policies, and authoritarian transformation in European societies. She analyzes migration governance through historical and contemporary lenses, including the EU-Turkey Deal and Balkan route formation.
Key projects include:
- RESPOND (third-party funded)
- Transit II and Transit Migration I (migration regime analysis)
- Collaborative exhibitions: Projekt Migration (Cologne 2005), Crossing Munich (2009), Movements of Migration (Göttingen 2013)
Academic leadership includes:
- Long-standing Speaker, Commission for Women's and Gender Studies (German Society for Folklore)
- Board Member, Council for Migration
- Contributor to critical migration theory through 20+ years of fieldwork
Engaged in public anthropology through:
- Migration bewegt die Stadt city lab
- Wir wollen Sicherheit community project
- Interdisciplinary collaborations beyond academia
