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CURRICULUM VITAE
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
Head of Research Group
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., Germany (hereinafter MPI for Social
Anthropology)
Extraordinary Professor of Social Anthropology
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/S., Germany (hereinafter MLU Halle-
Wittenberg)
Office
Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology
Advokatenweg 36
06114 Halle/S., Germany
email: knoerr@eth.mpg.de

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Content
1 School education
2 University education and degrees
3 Academic positions
4 Grants, honors, fellowships
5 Research foci, regional specializations, joint projects
6 Publications
7 Selected scholarly presentations
8 Teaching
9 Organization of conferences, workshops, colloquia
10 Memberships and functions in scientific, academic and political organizations
11 Miscellaneous professional activities (selection)
12 Websites/Social networks

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CURRICULUM VITAE
1 School education
74-80 Secondary and Grammar Schools: Ramseyer Memorial School (now: German Swiss
International School) and Ghana International School, Accra (Ghana); Kollegschule
am Kikweg, Düsseldorf (A-Levels/Abitur)
66-73 Primary Education in Neuss (Germany) and Accra (Ghana)
2 University education and degrees
06 Habilitation in Social Anthropology (PD Dr. habil.), MLU Halle-Wittenberg
94-96 Researcher (Postdoc), Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context
of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster
90-94 PhD candidate, Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in
Africa”, University of Bayreuth (PhD in Social Anthropology 1994)
84-88 Student of Social Anthropology, Political Sciences and English Philology,
University of Cologne, M.A. 1989
83 Student of Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine
81-84 Student of Social Anthropology and Political Sciences, University of Hamburg
80 Student at Nora-Hengstenberg-Schauspielschule (Drama School) in Düsseldorf

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3 Academic positions
cont. Extraordinary Professor at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg
cont. Head of Research Group, MPI for Social Anthropology
16 Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (Jan./Feb.)
08-09 Recurrent Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society,
Technology and Development, McGill University, Montreal
07 Visiting Professor, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (Aug./Sept.)
06 Visiting Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington (Dec.)
06 Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon (Nov.)
04-09 Minerva Professor/Max Planck Society (Head of Research Group), MPI for Social
Anthropology
03-04 Senior Researcher, MPI for Social Anthropology
00-02 Visiting Fellow, University of Indonesia, Jakarta
97-99 Scientific Coordinator, Research School “Cultural Diversity and the Construction of
the Polity in Southeast Asia: Continuity, Discontinuity, Transformation”, University
of Münster
94-96 Researcher (Postdoc), Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context
of Social and Cultural Diversity”, University of Münster (see “Grants”)
90-93 PhD candidate, Research School (Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in
Africa” (linked to the SFB “Identity in Africa”), University of Bayreuth (see “Grants”)
91-92 Visiting Fellow, University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, Freetown

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4 Grants, honors, fellowships
10 Upon nomination by the Max Planck Society: Inclusion in AcademiaNet
(http:www.academianet.de)
04-09 Minerva Professorship, Programme “Promotion of Exceptional Female Scientists
and Researchers at the Max Planck Society”
00-03 Lise Meitner Habilitation Grant, Ministry of Education, Science and Research, State
of North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany
01 Grant to conduct archival research at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
99 Shortlisted for the “Bennigsen-Förderpreis” (highest scientific award of NRW)
94-96 Postdoctoral grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Center
(Graduiertenkolleg) “Conflicts in the Context of Social and Cultural Diversity”,
University of Münster
90-93 PhD grant of the German Research Foundation (DFG), Graduate Center
(Graduiertenkolleg) “Intercultural Relations in Africa” (linked to the SFB “Identity in
Africa”), University of Bayreuth
83 Foreign exchange scholarship, awarded by the Academic Foreign Office, University of
Hamburg to study at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) (1983)
5 Research foci, regional specializations, joint projects
Research foci
Creolization and pidginization of culture, identity and language in contexts of postcolonial diversity
Creole strategies of inclusion and exclusion
Role of creole populations in the construction of postcolonial nationhood
Cosmopolitanism(s) from below
Initiation, secret societies, gender and initiation
Effects of out-migration on (West African) countries of origin
Transnational connections and diaspora-home interaction

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Conceptualizations and practices of postcolonial nation- and statehood
Relationship between ethnic, religious and national identities in conceptualizations and practices of
inclusion and exclusion
Relationship between language and ethnic/national identities in conceptualizations and practices of
inclusion and exclusion
Class, culture and race in the construction of home and belonging in migrant contexts
Childhood and migration; Children’s and youths’ construction of home and belonging and of
‘self’and ‘other’ in processes of (re-)migration/integration
Expatriate lifestyles and ideologies
Regional specializations
West Africa (Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Guinea, Senegal, Ghana)
Insular Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia)
Central Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands)
Joint projects (current and concluded after 2010)
Research School and Cluster “Society and Culture in Motion”, MLU Halle-Wittenberg (Board
Member, supervisor of PhD students)
Integration and Conflict across Atlantic and Indian Ocean Societies (joint research project MPI for
Social Anthropology Halle/S. and Institute for Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon (Head of the research
cluster at the MPI for Social Anthropology) (2006-2012)
Creole Social and Cultural Studies (headed by Prof. Robin Cohen, University of Oxford) (Member)
(2006-2012)
Travelling Models in Conflict Management (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) (Applicant,
Country Partner for Sierra Leone and Liberia, Supervisor of PhD students) (2006-2012)

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6 Publications
Monographs and edited books
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity
(co-edited with W. Trajano Filho) (under review).
Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity (co-
edited with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective (co-edited with C. Kohl). Oxford and New York:
Berghahn Books, 2016.
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014.
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (co-
edited with Wilson Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft. Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta. Frankfurt/M.
and New York: Campus Verlag, 2007.
Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency (editor). Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.:
Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives. (co-edited with B. Meier). Frankfurt/M. and
New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung als Kategorien kultureller Differenzierung. Varianten
neoafrikanischer Identität und Interethnik in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung
10, SFB 214: Identität in Afrika, University of Bayreuth, Münster and Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 1995.
Zwischen goldenem Ghetto und Integration. Ethnologische Autobiographie und Untersuchung über
das Aufwachsen deutscher und Schweizer Kinder in der 3. Welt am Beispiel Ghanas und ihre
anschließende Eingliederung in Europa. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990.

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Articles and book chapters
A war and after: Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world. In: Hannerz, U. and A.
Gingrich (eds.) Small Countries. Structures and sensibilities. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press (in print 2016).
Deconstructing tropes of politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies (with C. K. Højbjerg
and W. P. Murphy). In: Højbjerg, C. K., Knörr, J. and W. P. Murphy (eds.) Politics and Policies in
Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Female Genital Cutting in context: The example of Sierra Leone. The Expert Witness 16, 2016: 36-
42.
Transnationalism. In Callan, H. (ed.) (2016) The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. New
York: Wiley-Blackwell.
The Upper Guinea Coast in global perspective (with C. Kohl) (2016). In: Knörr, J. and C. Kohl
(eds.) The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books: 1-
18.
Sprachliche Diversität und die Konstruktion gemeinsamer Identität in postkolonialen Kontexten:
Das Beispiel der Oberen Guineaküste / Linguistic diversity and the construction of common identity
in postcolonial contexts. Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2014/ Max Planck Society
Yearbook 2014.
The interaction of global and local models of governance in articulations of traditional authority and
local leadership in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies (with C. K. Højbjerg and A.
Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers 149, 2013.
Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien. Aus Politik
und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11-12, 2012: 16-23. http://www.bpb.de/files/2UWAUR.pdf
Childhood and Migration in the context of globalization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) (2012) Wiley-
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. New York: Wiley-Blackwell: 177-179.
Creolization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) (2012) Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. New
York: Wiley-Blackwell: 335-342.
National, ethnic and creole identities in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies (Knörr et al.).
MPI for Social Anthropology Working Paper 135, 2012.

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Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)’. MPI for
Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I: 33-35. Halle/S., 2012.
Some comparative notes on local leadership and traditional authority in the Upper Guinea Coast
region (with C. Hojbjerg and A. Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol.
I: 35-38. Halle/S., 2012.
Das Coming-out der Diaspora als Heimat? Kreolische Identität in Sierra Leones Nachkriegsge-
sellschaft Sierra Leones. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136, 2011: 331-356.
Mardijker: Creoles in Batavia. In: Andrea, A. J. (ed.) World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The
First Global Age, 1450-177. ABC-CLIO 2011: 184-185.
Nationaler Zusammenhalt in schwachen Staaten/National Unity in Weak States. Jahrbuch der
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2011 / Max Planck Society, Yearbook 2011.
Contemporary creoleness, or: The world in pidginization? Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 6,
December 2010: 731-759.
Introduction (with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) (2010) The Powerful
Presence of the Past. Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast. Leiden: Brill: 1-23.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity. In: Knörr, J.
and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) (2010) The Powerful Presence of the Past. Integration and Conflict
along the Upper Guinea Coast. Leiden: Brill: 205-228.
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany. In: Karentsos, A., A. E. Kittner and
J. Reuter (eds.) (2010) Topologies of Travel. Tourism, Imagination, Migration. Open access
publication, University of Trier: 229-236 (German version 32-40).
http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2010/565/pdf/Topologien_des_Reisens.pdf
Creolization and nation-building in Indonesia. In: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) (2009) The
Creolization Reader. Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures. London: Routledge: 353-363.
‘Free the Dragon’ versus ‘Becoming Betawi’. Chinese identity in contemporary Jakarta. Asian
Ethnicity 10 (1), 2009: 71-90.
Postkoloniale Kreolität versus koloniale Kreolisierung. Paideuma 55, 2009: 93-115.
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children. In:
Report of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe, European
Science Foundation, February 2009: 23-28.

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Indigenisierung versus Re-Ethnisierung. Chinesische Identität in Jakarta. Anthropos 1, 2008: 159-
177.
Towards conceptualizing creolization and creoleness, MPI for Social Anthropology Working
Papers, No. 100, 2008.
(Re-)Constructions of national identity in the Upper Guinea Coast, in: MPI for Social
Anthropology, Report 2006/07, Halle/S. 2008: 30-40.
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building. Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone, Série
Antropologia, No. 416, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília, Brasília 2007.
Integration und Konflikt im Verhältnis von Nation, Staat und Ethnie, in: Max-Planck-Institut für
ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung Integration und Konflikt, Bericht 2007, Halle/S. 2007: 82-83.
(Re-)Konstruktionen nationaler Identität in der Upper Guinea Coast, in: Max-Planck-Institut für
ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung Integration und Konflikt, Bericht 2007, Halle/S. 2007: 55-79.
Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe ‘Integration und Konflikt an der Upper Guinea Coast
(Westafrika)’, in: Max- Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Bericht, Sonderausgabe.
Halle/S. 2005: 83-87.
Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)’, in: MPI
for Social Anthropology, Report 2004-2005. Halle/S. 2005: 111-115.
Introduction, in: Knörr, J. (ed.) (2005) Childhood and Migration. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.:
Transcript and Transaction Publishers: 9-21.
When German children come ‘home’: Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany – and some
remarks about the ‘TCK’-issue, in: Knörr, J. (ed.) (2005) Childhood and Migration. From
Experience to Agency. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers: 51-76.
Freetown, in: Ember, M. and C. R. Ember (eds.) (2002) Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Cities and
Cultures around the World. Danbury: Grolier: Vol. II: 212-219.
Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionalität und Modernität: Die Orang Betawi und Betawi-ness in
Jakarta, Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128, 2002, 2: 203-221.
Women and migration: Anthropological perspectives (with B. Meier), in: Knörr, J. and B. Meier
(eds.) (2000): Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, Frankfurt/M. and New York:
Campus and St. Martin’s Press: 9-17.

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Female secret societies and their impact on ethnic and transethnic identities among migrant women
in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) (2000): Women and Migration:
Anthropological Perspectives, Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press: 62-80.
Kulturelle Transformationsprozesse in Jakarta im Spannungsfeld von Ethnisierung und
Transethnisierung, in: Krasberg, U. and B. Schmidt (eds.) (2000): Stadt in Stücke:
Entstehungsprozesse neuer urbaner Traditionen. Marburg: Curupira: 247-270.
Definitionen und Erklärungsansätze von Prostitution (with Holter, U. and E. Heinser-Ueckert), in:
Holter, U. (ed.) (1995) Bezahlt, geliebt, verstoßen. Prostitution und andere Sonderformen
institutionalisierter Sexualität in verschiedenen Kulturen. Bonn: Holos: 9-16.
Creolization and pidginization as categories of cultural differentiation: Varieties of cultural identity
and interethnic relations in Freetown, in: Riesz, J. (ed.) (1994) Échange Franco-Allemands sur
l´Afrique: Bayreuth African Studies: 115-131.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung auf kultureller Ebene, in: Laubscher, S. and B. Turner (eds.)
(1994) Regionale Völkerkunde, Bd. 2, Munich: edition anacon: 15-25.
Reviews (2012-2016)
Cole, Gibril R. (2013) The Krio of West Africa. Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in
the Nineteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press. Comparativ 2, 2016.
Kelley, Carol E. (2013) Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press. American Anthropologist 117, 4 (2015).
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014).
Bolten, Catherine E. (2012) I Did It to Save My Life. Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Berkeley:
University of California Press. Anthropos 108, 2: 636-637 (2013).
Jackson, Michael (2011) Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want. Durham and London:
Duke University Press. Anthropos 107, 1: 268-269 (2012).

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7 Selected scholarly presentations
Revisiting repatriates. About getting old(er) ‘back home’
Conference of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES),
Dubrovnik, May 2016
Krio ideologies of descent in current nation-state context
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), San Diego, November 2015
Towards liberating African Studies from the ‘triangular bias’: African-Asian interaction and
exchange as a new research frontier
Conference “Africa-Asia: A new axis of knowledge”, Accra, September 2015
Creoles of Asia in processes of inclusion and exclusion: The example of the Betawi and Peranakan
in Jakarta, Indonesia
Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH), Osaka, April 2015
Mixed heritage and connectivity as constituents of Jakartan identity: Betawi, Peranakan, Indo
Conference: Connectivity in Motion: New Studies on the Indian Ocean World, MPI for Social
Anthropology), Halle/S., October 2014
Creolization versus Pidginization: Why conceptual differentiation matters when trying to
understand postcolonial diversity in terms of language and identity
5th
Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., October
2014
Creoles of Asia in processes of inclusion and exclusion: the example of the Betawi and Peranakan
in Jakarta, Indonesia
Conference “Eurasians”, University of Leiden, March 2014
Krio ideologies of descent in current public discourse and performance
Panel organized by the Research Group IC_UGC: Travelling models of policy making in
contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA), Chicago, November 2013
The research program of the research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea
Coast” at the MPI for Social Anthropology (Halle/S., Germany)
Northwestern University (NWU), Evanston, Program of African Studies (PAS), November 2013
How size and scale affects Sierra Leone’s post-war condition
Annual Retreat, Research Group IC_UGC, Düsseldorf, July 2013

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Repatriates revisited: How it feels to get old(er) ‘back home’ … and where is home anyway?
Conference “Migration and Well-being: Research Frontiers”, organized by The International
Sociological Association (ISA)/Research Committee on Sociology of Migration. Tel Aviv
University, January 2013.
Towards liberating African Studies from the ‘triangular bias’: African-Asian interaction and
exchange as a new research frontier
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Theme 2012: Research Frontiers in the
Study of Africa, Philadelphia, November 2012
Bodies of circulation: Juxtaposing migration and adoption
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, November
2012 (discussant)
Transcending Traditional Tropes: Conceptualizing Politics and Policies in 21
st
Century Upper
Guinea Coast (with Christian K. Højbjerg)
4th
Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S.,
September 2012
North-South dimensions in the construction of anthropological theory
Annual Retreat, Research Group IC_UGC, Düsseldorf, February 2012
Smallness matters in Sierra Leone
Conference “Small Countries”, organized by Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm) Andre Gingrich (Vienna)
and Thomas H. Eriksen (Oslo), Landskrona, Sweden, May 2012
Coming of age and getting old(er) “back home”: Repatriates revisited
Conference of the Social Sciences History Association (SSHA), Boston, November 2011
Creole identity in postcolonial Indonesia
Conference “Asian Identities: Trends in a Globalized World” University of Bangkok, Bangkok,
Thailand, February 2011
The Upper Guinea Coast in transnational perspective
Third Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, Topic: “The Upper Guinea Coast in
Transnational Perspective”, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/S., December 2010
On the role of performances in the construction of identity and belonging
First annual conference of the Centre for Area Studies (CAS) at the University of Leipzig. Panel:
“Whose culture? Migrations and mutations of performance”, Leipzig, October 2010

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Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity (Sierra
Leone)
Biannual conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) (hereinafter
German Anthropological Association), Frankfurt/M., September 2009
The Pidgin factor of creoleness or: Postcolonial pidginization beats colonial creolization
University of Heidelberg, Conference “Conceptualizing Cultural Hybridization: A Transdiciplinary
Approach”, September 2009
Über das Verhältnis ethnischer, religiöser und lokaler Identifikationen in Prozessen der
Indigenisierung: Beispiele aus Indonesien und Sierra Leone
University of Zurich, May 2009
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children
Interdisciplinary Workshop “Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe” / Section “Immigration
and Migration”, European Science Foundation / SCH and SCSS, European University Nicosia,
Cyprus, February 2009
Krio identity in postwar Sierra Leone
Second Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, Topic: “Margins, Diasporas, Networks: The
Upper Guinea Coast and the Making of the Atlantic”, co-organized by the MPI for Social
Anthropology and the Institute for Social Sciences in Lisbon (ICS), Lisbon, December 2008
The North-South politics of knowledge in the production of contemporary anthropological theory
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Capetown (UCT), December 2008
Beyond the ‘C-word’.
Conference “Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging”, Mansfield College, Oxford University,
September 2008.
Pidginization as historical creolization’s contemporary outcome
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology, Ljubljana, August 2008
Postcolonial creolization beats colonial creolization
Department of Social Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, May 2008.
Comparative perspectives on postcolonial nation-building and concepts of nationhood in Africa
Biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Halle/S. October 2007
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building. Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone
Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasilia (DAN), September 2007

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‘Out of Africa’ or ‘back home’? Expat children in Germany
University of Trier, Conference “Topologien des Reisens”, Juni 2007
Die modernen Bedeutungen traditioneller Geheimgesellschaften in Sierra Leone
Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Leipzig, December 2006
Creole populations’ roles in the creation of transethnic and national Identity: The cases of the
Krio (Sierra Leone) and the Betawi (Indonesia)
Intercongress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES),
University of Cape Town, December 2006
Integration and conflict as dimensions of cultural tradition, social dynamics and historical
experience
Workshop of the Network “Travelling Models and Narratives in Conflict, Conflict Prevention and
Resolution” (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation), University of Stellenbosch, November 2006
Settlers in processes of nation-building: Examples from Sierra Leone and Indonesia
105th
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anthropology (AAA), San José, USA,
November 2006
Creolization as ethnogenesis
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, November 2006.
What’s alternative about alternative modernities?
University of Indiana, Bloomington, November 2006
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany: About children’s ‘return’ to a
foreign home
9th
Bi-annual conference of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), Bristol,
September 2006
Social and political dynamics of creole concepts of culture and identity
University of Stellenbosch, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, March 2006
Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany and some remarks about the “TCK” issue
Conference of the Social Sciences History Association (SSHA), Amsterdam, March 2006
‘Orang Betawi’: Construction and transformation of a creole notion of Jakartan identity
4th
International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia, Jakarta, July 2005
About the politicization of identity in Jakarta
Research Colloquium, Institute for Social Anthropology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, June 2005

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Comparing creole ethnographies of historicity in (post)colonial settler societies: The cases of the
Krio (Freetown/Sierra Leone) and the Betawi (Jakarta / Indonesia)
27th
Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific (AFSAAP),
Perth, November 2004
Zum Verhältnis ethnischer, urbaner und nationaler Identität in Jakarta
Anthropological Colloquium, Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig, June 2004
Wenn deutsche Kinder 'heim'kehren: Erfahrungen der Remigration nach Deutschland
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Hamburg, October 2003
Creolization in context: Historical, social and political dimensions of intercultural and
interethnic processes in Jakarta
MPI for Social Anthropology, July 2003
Creole communities as agents of national and state identity: The Orang Betawi of Jakarta
Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans, November 2002
Repräsentationen von Modernität und Traditionalität in Jakarta: Die Wahl der ‘None Jakarta’
(Miss Jakarta)
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Göttingen, October 2001
About studying Social Anthropology in Germany
Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, June 2001
Migrants in Germany
What about 'tribalism' in Germany? Is there an ethnic divide between the East and the West in
post-wall Germany?
Orang Betawi, Orang Jakarta, Orang Indonesia: Konstruktion und Transformation ethnischen
und transethnischen Gemeinwesens in Jakarta
Wissenschaftszentrum NRW/Science Center NRW, Düsseldorf, February 1999
Kreolität im Vergleich: Krio vs. Betawi
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Heidelberg, June 1998
Representations of ethnicity and intercultural processes in Jakarta
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Frankfurt/M., October 1997

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Kulturelle Kreolisierung als Konzept alternativer Modernen
Institute of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, October 1997
Creole languages as languages of ethnic and national identification
Conference of the Union of Africanists in Germany (VAD), Humboldt-University of Berlin,
September 1996
Urbanität in Jakarta: Konzepte kultureller Synthese und Transformation
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Münster, May 1996
Writing in the field
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, December 1995
Nationale Identität im Spannungsfeld ethnischer und transethnischer Zuordnung
Institute of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, November 1995
Ethnic and transethnic concepts of identity and intercultural relations in Sierra Leone
Institute of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, October 1995
The Ojeh- and Odelay-Societies in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Secret societies as institutions of
interethnic contact and transethnic identity in the urban context
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Vienna, September 1995
Kulturelle und ethnische Identität im Licht ethnologischer Symbolforschung
Institute of Social Psychology, University of Münster, April 1995
Ethnologische Forschung in Krisengebieten
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Cologne, February 1995
Nischenkultur im Lebenslauf von Ostberlinern
Institute of Social Psychology, University of Münster, November 1994
Kreolen zwischen Sklaven- und Eliteideologie und -Kultur
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, November 1994
Zu den Hintergründen des Konfliktes in Sierra Leone
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Leipzig, October 1993
Varianten kreolischer Identität in Sierra Leone
Bi-annual conference of the German Anthropological Association, Munich, October 1991

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8 Teaching
Institute for Social Anthropology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg (since 2006)
Seminars:
o Migration as experience and social practice (SS 2016)
o History of Anthropology (II): Functionalism, Structural Functionalism Structuralism (SS 2015)
o Language and identity in postcolonial societies (SS 2014)
o Ethnography of Southeast Asia II: Integration and Conflict (SS 2013)
o Ethnography of Southeast Asia I: Indonesia (SS 2012)
o African-Asian relationships: Migration, exchange, identity (WS 2011/12)
o Anthropology of migration (SS 2011)
o Anthropology of childhood (WS 2010/11)
o Construction of identity and personhood in postcolonial societies (SS 2010)
o Atlantic West Africa II (WS 2009/10)
o Atlantic West Africa I (WS 2007/08)
o Creole and (trans-)national identities in postcolonial societies (WS 2006/07)
o Urban Anthropology (SS 2006)
Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, (WS 2008/09, Professor / replacement)
Seminars:
o Economic anthropology
o Ethnographic methods
o Cultural Theory: (Trans-)national, local, religious and ethnic identifications
o Anthropology of the Upper Guinea Coast
Department of Anthropology and Centre for Society, Technology and Development, McGill
University, Montreal (April 2008-September 2009)
Seminars/Lectures:
o Nation-building and transnationalism in contexts of social and ethnic diversity
o Theories of creolization
o Canadian-African connections in historical and contemporary perspective
Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília (DAN), (August-September 2007)
Seminars/Lectures:
o Postcolonial nationhood and transnational connections in comparative perspective
o Ethnic and transethnic identifications among creole populations
Institute for African Studies, University of Leipzig
Seminar:
o Sierra Leone: History, culture, society (WS 2004/05)

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University of Indonesia/Jakarta (2000-02)
Seminars:
o Identity in Jakarta
o Creole societies
o Religious identity and ethnic differentiation
Institute for Social Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Graduate School, University of Münster
Seminars:
o Anthropological methodology (WS 1998/99)
o Collective identities (SS 1998)
o Anthropology of West Africa (WS 1997/98)
o Urban Anthropology I and II (SS 1997)
o PhD colloquium (WS 1996/97)
o Conflict and Integration in Periods of Radical Social Transformation (SS 1996)
o Biographic Research (WS 1995/96)
o Ethnographic Methods (SS 1995)
Free University of Berlin, Institute for Sociology
Seminar:
o Urban culture and identity in comparative perspective: Examples from Africa and Southeast Asia
(WS 1996/97)
University of Cologne, Institute for Social Anthropology
Seminar:
o Neo-African identity: The case of Sierra Leone (WS 1994/95)
University of Sierra Leone, Freetown/Sierra Leone (1991-92)
Seminars:
o Creole and Pidgin languages as interethnic means of communication
o Ethnic identities and nation-building in postcolonial societies

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9 Organization of conferences, workshops, colloquia
Creole Languages and Postcolonial Diversity in Comparative Perspective
Fifth International Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, Halle/S., September 2014
Annual Retreat, Research Group IC_UGC
Düsseldorf, July 2013
Workshop in the Field, Research Group IC_UGC
Freetown/Sierra Leone, March 2013
Transcending Traditional Tropes: Conceptualizing Politics and Policies in 21st
Century Upper
Guinea Coast
Fourth International Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, Halle/S., September 2012
Düsseldorf, February 2012
Gomoa Fetteh/Ghana, October 2011
Düsseldorf, March 2011
The Upper Guinea Coast in Transnational Perspective
Third International Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, MPI for Social Anthropology,
Halle/S., December 2010
Cape Coast/Ghana, October 2010
Margins, Diasporas, Networks: The Upper Guinea Coast and the Making of the Atlantic
Second International Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, co-organized by the MPI for
Social Anthropology, Halle/S. and the Institute for Social Sciences (ICS), Lisbon, December 2008
Banjul/Gambia, July 2008
Comparative Perspectives on Postcolonial Nation-Building and Concepts of Nationhood in Africa
Biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGV), Halle/S., October 2007

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Freetown/Sierra Leone, March 2007
The Powerful Presence of the Past. Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast
First International Conference of the Research Group IC_UGC, MPI for Social Anthropology,
December 2006
Conflicts–Human Rights–Interventions
Biannual conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGV) (member of organizing
committee), Halle/S., October 2005
Childhood and Migration
Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, Biannual conference of the
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Hamburg, October 2003
Representations of Modernity and Tradition in Processes of Cultural Transformation
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Göttingen, 2001
Concepts of Intercultural and Transcultural Identity in connection to Gender Theories
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Heidelberg, October 1999 (with Nadig and Schlehe)
Virtual Diasporas
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Heidelberg, October 1999
Representations of Ethnicity and Intercultural Processes in the Global City
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Frankfurt/M., October 1997
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives
International conference of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, German
Anthropological Association (DGV), Münster, October 1997
Migration, Multiculturality and Identity as Areas of Anthropological Research
German Anthropological Association (DGV), Vienna, October 1995
Anthropology of Migration
Workshop of the section “Migration, Multiculturality and Identity”, German Anthropological
Association (DGV), Bonn, July 1995

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10 Memberships and functions in scientific, academic and political organizations
Leadership roles in scientific organizations
Head of the Project Development Group, MPI for Social Anthropology, (05-07)
Board member of the German Anthropological Association (DGV) (03-07)
Chairwoman of the section ‘Migration, Multiculturality and Identity’ and associate board member
of the German Anthropological Association (DGV) (95-03)
Functions in academic/political organizations (selection)
Representative of Scientific Staff, Max Planck Society (12-15)
Mentor, Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society (since 09)
Advisory Board on Migration Policy, Social Democratic Party (SPD), Berlin (00-03)
Representative of Scientific Staff, Faculty of History/Philosophy, University of Münster (98-99)
Editorial boards
Integration and Conflict Studies, MPI for Social Anthropology, Berghahn
Memberships in scientific organizations
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)
African Studies Association (ASA)
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Vereinigung der Afrikanisten in Deutschland(VAD)/Union of Africanists in Germany
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV)/German Anthropological Association
Social Sciences History Association (SSHA)
Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR)
Working Group on Childhood and Migration, Rutgers State University of New Jersey

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Anthropology of Children and Youth Network, University of Amsterdam
LeadNet, Max Planck Society
Minerva FemmeNet, Max Planck Society
Deutscher Hochschulverband (Assembly of German Universities)
11 Miscellaneous professional activities (selection)
Scientific advisor to the German Parliament (recurrent)
Expert witness in asylum cases (UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands) (recurrent)
Counsellor for expatriates, repatriates (to be) (recurrent)
Reviewer for German and international funding agencies (DFG, ESF etc.)
Freelancer at the German Foundation for Development (DSE), Bad Honnef (90/91)
Teacher of English and German as foreign languages (VHS and ASG Düsseldorf, 1985-1990)
Volunteer in a law-firm specialized in immigration law, Santa Ana, California (83)
12 Websites/Social Networks
MPI for Social Anthropology/personal page
http://www.eth.mpg.de/employees/33010/2950822
MPI for Social Anthropology/research group’s page
http://www.eth.mpg.de/3435410/ugc
AcademiaNet/personal page
www.academianet.de/alias/Profil/Prof-Dr-Jacqueline-Knoerr/1037987
Research Network “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast” (IC_UGC)
http://www.facebook.com/groups/219380771441354/
Research Network “Integration and Conflict in Southeast Asia” (IC_SEA)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/135605696581333/
Blog “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast” (IC_UGC)
https://upperguineacoast.wordpress.com/

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