Gisela Welz

is co-founder and spokesperson for the working group “Ethnographies of the Political: Globalization_Europeanization” within the German Folklore Studies Association. She was trained as a cultural anthropologist in Frankfurt and Tuebingen, and is Professor and chair of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Goethe University Frankfurt. She developed the MA program in Science and Technology Studies at Goethe-University with other members of LaSST, and has served since 2017 as the academic leader of the MA program. 

Publications

Core publications
Welz, G. (2015). European Products. Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus. London, New York: Berghahn Books.
 
Welz, G., Sperling F., & Blum, E.M. (eds.) (2012). Negotiating Environmental Conflicts: Local Communities, Global Policies. Frankfurt a. M.: Kulturanthropologie Notizen, Bd. 81.
 
Welz, G., & Lottermann, A. (Hg.) (2009). Projekte der Europäisierung. Kulturanthropologische Forschungsperspektiven. Frankfurt a.M.: Kulturanthropologie Notizen, Bd. 78.
 
Papadakis, Y., Peristianis, N., & Welz, G. (eds.) (2006). Divided Cyprus. Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict. Bloomington, IND: Indiana University Press. (Publikation mit Peer Review-Verfahren.)
 
Welz, G., Lottermann, A., & Heinbach, G. et al (Hg.) (2005). Gesunde Ansichten. Wissensaneignung medizinischer Laien. Frankfurt a. M.: Kulturanthropologie Notizen, Bd. 75.

 
Most recent
Welz, G. (2018b). ‘Environmental Orientations’ and the Anthropology of the Anthropocene. Special issue Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 27 (1), 40–44.
 
Welz, G. (2018a). Assembling halloumi: contesting the EU’s food quality label policy in the Republic of Cyprus. In Forney, J., Rosin, D., & Campbell, H., (eds.), Agri-environmental Governance as an Assemblage. Multiplicity, Power, and Transformation. London: Routledge, 76–90.

Research

In the context of her long-term concern with the nonlinear and contradictory effects of Europeanization, she has engaged critically with the anthropology of policy (“Projekte der Europäisierung”, 2009; “European Products” 2015), and has supervised MA and PhD projects on technologies of governance in climate, energy, sustainability, food and health policies in European countries. In her current research, she is examining the applicability of the concept of “policy assemblages” in the implementation of agro-environmental governance in the Republic of Cyprus.