51ÁÔÆæ

Phone: 069/798-33078
E-Mail: goepfert (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de
Room: IG 557
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Mirco Göpfert is professor for social and cultural anthropology. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2014 and taught at the University of Konstanz before coming to the 51ÁÔÆæ in 2018.

Also, Mirco (he/him) is a first generation academic, so please get in touch if you need help or seek advice!

Research project
Humour as an Epistemic Practice of the Political Present 

Main research interests
- Humour and satire (as epistemic practices)
- Anthropology of the state and bureaucratic practice / violence and security / crime and punishment / power and resistance
- Relational ontology / phenomenological approaches in anthropology / practice theory
- Heuristic and methodology of ethnographic research 

Publications

2024	. Cultural Anthropology 39(4): 645-666.
2022	. Anthropology Today 38(3): 22-24.
2020	Anthropological Notebooks 26(1): 147-166.
2020	. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10(2): 487–498.
2020	. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
2017	(Edited with Jan Beek, Olly Owen and Jonny Steinberg). London: Hurst Publishers.
2016	. Theoretical Criminology 20(4): 446–461.
2016	". African Studies Review 59(2): 39-57.
2015	(with Jan Beek). Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 23(4): 465-479.
2015	. Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde 61: 237-255.
2013	(with Jan Beek). Sociologus 63(1-2): 103-124.
2013	(with Jan Beek). Ethnography 14(4): 477-500.
2013	. American Ethnologist 40(2): 324-334.
2013	(with Andrea Noll). Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel Verlag.
2012	. Journal of Modern African Studies 50(1): 53-74

The complete list of publications can be found

Team
 (NoJoke)
Sepide Ghorbani Sagherloo (Student assistant)
 (Research associate)

(Research associate)
Gil Hızı (Research associate)
(NoJoke)
 (NoJoke)
Prateek (NoJoke)
(PhD candidate | ELLVIS-Pilotprojekt “Kollaborative Ethnologie“)
Helena Zohdi (PhD candidate)