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Jan Patrick Heiss has an academic background in Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies with a focus on individual ethnology, economic anthropology, and ethnolinguistics. He completed his Master's degree in Ethnology, African Linguistics, and Philosophy in Frankfurt, Edinburgh, and Berlin. His doctoral dissertation, which examined the complexities of agricultural fieldwork, was conducted at the University of Bayreuth. He has also worked as a research associate at the University of Mainz, focusing on the Yedina in the Lake Chad region and the structures of interactive language use in Hausa. At the University of Zurich, Heiss has held the position of Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the ISEK, where he undertakes teaching and research in West African ethnology. His academic role also includes guest professorships at Kyoto University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, as well as a visiting professorship at the University of Tübingen. His research has taken him to various international institutions, including the International Research College on Work and Life Cycle at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Paris Ouest. Heiss is also a member of a collaborative research laboratory focused on sustainable development practices in Africa and serves as an editor for the journal 'Sociologus.'
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