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Claudia Liebelt is a professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Free University of Berlin. She serves as the director of the research office "Gender, Body, Sexualities" and is a founding member of the working group "Gender & Sexualities | Queer Anthropology" within the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests include the anthropology of the body and senses, gender and sexuality, political anthropology, and religious anthropology, focusing on issues such as body politics, care, emotions, and intimacy. Liebelt's current research projects involve the exploration of olfactory substances in connection with emotions and beauty perceptions and aesthetic citizenship in China. She has conducted extensive field research in the Middle East and North Africa, with significant experiences in Turkey, Israel, Morocco, and the Philippines. Liebelt has held various academic positions, including a Heisenberg Fellowship and guest professorships, and has been active in overseeing research projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Free University of Berlin • Berlin
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Working Unit 'Gender, Body, Sexualities'.
University of Bayreuth •
Research on 'Gender, Body, Beauty: Transnational Formations of Self'.
Free University of Berlin •
Focusing on Gender and Diversity Research.
University of Bayreuth •
Worked as a research associate in the Department of Social Anthropology.
Keele University (UK) •
Research in the field of Law, Politics, and Justice.
Administered by the Department of Political and Social Sciences.