Christoph Lange
Dr. Christoph Lange is co-founder of Mediterranean Liminalities Research Lab and its coordinator. He studied Social Anthropology and Middle East Studies at the University of Leipzig from 2004–2011. From 2014 – 2018 he was a research assistant of Martin Zillinger and doctoral researcher at the Research Lab Transformations of Life of the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Since 2018 he has been working at Martin Zillinger’s chair at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UoC. In 2020 he successfully completed his doctoral thesis on Decolonizing the Arabian Horse - The Breeding, Circulation and Certification of the Straight Egyptian Arabian in the 21st Century which was awarded with the second place of the dissertation prize of German Anthropological Association (DGSKA/GAA) in 2021.
Currently, Christoph Lange is developing a postdoctoral project on socioecological crises and intersectional collapses in the Mediterranean by adopting a Critical Zones’ perspective. He is also the speaker of the GAA Mediterranean Regional Group and in 2021 he was a contributing editor for the CASTAC Platypus Blog.
His research interests lie in
- Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean & Middle East
- Multispecies-ethnography/ more-than-human anthropology
- Science and technology Studies (STS)
- Mobility and nomadic studies, critical orientalism & heritage studies
- Media anthropology, translocal and global history of sociotechnical entanglements
Contact: c.lange[at]uni-koeln.de