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Sina Emde is a Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, where she has served as MA program coordinator since November 2021. She also holds an Honorary Senior Lecturer position at The Australian National University's College of Asia & the Pacific since February 2024. Her academic career spans multiple German institutions including previous positions at universities in Göttingen, Berlin, and Heidelberg.
Dr. Emde earned her PhD in Anthropology from The Australian National University (2008), following her Magister in Ethnology, Sociology and Pre-Columbian American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin (completed in 1997). She also conducted study abroad at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji.
Her research program centers on political anthropology with a consistent gender-sensitive perspective. She investigates conflict, post-conflict dynamics, and memory processes across diverse contexts including education systems, (post)colonial states, nation-building, and transitional justice mechanisms. Her regional expertise spans Oceania and Southeast Asia, with specific fieldwork conducted in Fiji (examining nation-building following the 2000 coup) and Cambodia (studying memory processes related to the Khmer Rouge era).
Dr. Emde's scholarly output reveals a trajectory from examining nation-building in Oceania to exploring memoryscapes in post-conflict Cambodia, and more recently engaging with decolonial approaches to environmental issues. Her work consistently bridges theoretical frameworks with empirical fieldwork, emphasizing situated knowledge and the politics of representation across cultural contexts.
- Board Member, European Society for Oceanists (2017-2022)
- Member, European Association for Social Anthropology (since 2021)
- Member, Australian Association for Pacific Studies (since 2020)
As an educator, Dr. Emde teaches courses on political anthropology, postcolonial theory, gender studies, peace and conflict, memory studies, and research methods. She has developed curriculum for both undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on critical approaches to regional knowledge construction and decolonizing methodologies.
