The International Advisory Board discusses the overarching educational strategy of the program. The Board also provides co-supervision of doctoral students and implementation of mutual research projects, seminars and publications.
Members of the Board of Experts
University of Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology (Areas of Research/Interest:Digital-visual anthropology, media, and emerging technologies; Migration, gender and Islam in/and Europe; Space, place and urban anthropology
Tallinn University, School of Humanities (Areas of Research/Interest: Material Culture, Ethnographic Experiments, Repair, Peripheries)
History Department Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).
Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography (Areas of Research/Interest: forced migration, humanitarianism, anthropology of food, Eastern Europe, Caucasus)
The Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (Areas of Research/Interest: Political economy, post socialist transition, informal economic practices, social movements)
Aarhus University, Department of Anthropology (Areas of Research/Interest: religion, Central Asia, atheism, morality, sufism)
University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation (Areas of Research/Interest: religion, symbolism and power; family, kinship and the person; ethnicity in colonial and post-colonial contexts; the history of ethnographic methodology.
Malmo University, Caucasus Studies (Areas of Research/Interest: Political Transformations, uncertainty, religion, history, identity, morality, political forms and practices)
Department of Anthropology, Trent University (Areas of Research/Interest: Middle East, Arabia Peninsula, Italy, religion and world view, Islam, embodiment, gender, consumption, ethnographic methods, and histories of anthropology)
Director, Harriman Institute; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
School of Culture and Society, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University (Areas of Research/Interest: Youth, Man and Culture, Nihilism, criminalitu and corruption, urban development and infrastructure, time and materiality)
Department of Anthropology, Trent University (Areas of Research/Interest: Linguistic anthropology, anthropology and history, semiotics (the study of signs), cartoons, urban anthropology, anthropology of romance, anthropology of politics, liberalism and neoliberalism, colonialism, anthropology of technology, nature, mining, landscape, and anthropology of the preternatural (fairies, pixies, monsters, occultism, theosophy)
Department of Anthropology, New York University (Areas of Research/Interest: Former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus; cultural history and politics; religion)
London School of Economics and Political Sciences, Director of Doctoral Programme, the Department of Anthropology (Areas of Research/Interest: Caucasus, Central Asia, anthropology of borders, political anthropology, anthropology of religion).