anthropology

specialization: legal and political anthropology

fieldwork: multi-sited (Europe); previously: stationary fieldwork in SE Asia (Myanmar) and in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan)

thematic interests: we-formation, community and singularity, ethno-religious minorities, expert activism, statelessness and the state

theoretical approaches: Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential anthropology, ethnomethodology

Judith Beyer is full professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz and member of the International Advisory Board of Central Asian Survey

psychoanalysis / mentoring

Judith Beyer is a cartelisand and a participant in teachings and seminars that center on Jacques Lacan’s œuvre in both its theoretical and clinical dimensions, organized by the New Lacanian School (NLS)

She serves as a mentor for Minerva-FemmeNet, the network for female scientists at the Max Planck Society, and in private capacity

applied work

Judith Beyer is co-partner of Die Bodenseher, an ethnographic research association based at Lake Constance, an associate member of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS) and a country-of-origin expert for asylum cases, mainly in the UK