Dr. Carole Ammann
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Carole Ammann joins our department as part of an Ambizione project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to research rainbow families. The aim of this project is to find out how GBTIQ+ parents experience parenthood within structures that are geared towards heterosexual, cisgender two-parent families.
After studying history, political science, and African Studies, she completed her PhD at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. Carole Ammann’s doctoral research focused on women’s everyday political articulations in Guinea, where she conducted fieldwork between 2011 and 2013. She published her findings in the book ‘Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea. Silent Politics’ (Routledge).
Carole Ammann was a junior fellow at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography at the University of Berne. From 2020 to 2021, she was an SNSF postdoctoral mobility fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, where she researched fathering. After a one-year stay at the University of Lucerne with an SNSF return grant, she was a senior researcher in the Spatial Development and Urban Policy (SPUR) research group at the ETH Zurich.
Research
Research Priorities
Thematic interests
- Parenting
- Queer kinship
- Anthropology of Gender
- Masculinities
- Intersectionality
- Urban Anthropology
- Political Anthropology
Regional interests
- Europe
- West Africa
Research Projects
Current Projects
- 2024 – 2024 Rainbow families in Switzerland: Parenting Outside Hegemonic Family Norms, https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/216077 (finanziert durch einen SNF Ambizione Beitrag)
- 2023 – 2025 Die COVID-19 Pandemie und ihre Auswirkungen auf systemrelevante Berufe in Städten, www.nfp80.ch/de/GAyZ215lkrCqyWic/projekt/die-coronapandemie-und-ihre-auswirkungen-auf-systemrelevante-staedtische-arbeitskraefte (unter der Leitung von Prof. David Kaufmann, finanziert durch das nationale Forschungsprogramm NFP 80 ‘Covid-19 in der Gesellschaft’ des SNSF)
Completed Projects
2022 Fathering among Queer Non-Female Identifying Persons in Switzerland and the Netherlands, https://p3.snf.ch/project-203051 (finanziert durch einen SNF Postdoc.Mobility Rückkehrbeitrag)
- 2020 – 2021 Doing Fatherhood in the 21st Century: Connecting the Global North and the Global South, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/186629 (finanziert duch ein SNF Postdoc.Mobility Stipendium)
- 2018 – 2019 Employment and Social Differences in the Swiss Health Care Sector, Universität Bern (unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Susan Thieme und Ass. Prof. Marina Richter)
- 2017 – 2018 Ordinary Secondary Cities in West Africa, Universität Bern
- 2011 – 2017 Silent Politics. Gender, Imagination, and the State in Kankan, Guinea, Universität Basel (als Teil des SNF-Projekts ‘The Work of State Imageries: How Imageries of Governance and the State Constitute Everyday Practice in Conflict Affected West Africa’ unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Till Förster), https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/164550
