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Annika Lems is an Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. Her research examines the ways people experience, negotiate, and actively create place attachments in an age of rapid global transformations. With a PhD in Social Anthropology from Swinburne University completed in 2013, Lems has spent eight years working on large-scale international research projects in Europe. From 2015 to 2019, she coordinated a project at the University of Bern, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, focusing on the educational pathways of unaccompanied refugee youth. Since joining ANU in 2023, she has been a chief investigator of an independent Max Planck Research Group titled 'Alpine Histories Global Change', a prestigious research project exploring socio-cultural genealogies of anti-cosmopolitan ideas and practices in the German-speaking Alpine region. Her publications include 'Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement' (Berghahn, 2018) and 'Frontiers of Belonging: Education of Unaccompanied Refugee Youth' (Indiana University Press, 2022), which highlight the social and political processes that shape the experiences of refugees and other marginalized groups.
Australian National University • Canberra, ACT
Research and teaching in the field of Social Anthropology.
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