Prof. Dr. Tahani Nadim

Nadim, Tahani, and Regina Sarreiter. 2026. ‘Rassismus Im Museum’. In Rassismusforschung: Handbuch Für Wissenschaft, Studium Und Praxis, edited by Manuela Bojadzijev, Paul Mecheril, Patrice Poutrus, and Matthias Quent. Nomos.

Nadim, Tahani. 2024a. ‘Archiving Puddles’. In Pfützenarchiv, edited by Mirja Busch. Vexer.

Nadim, Tahani. 2024b. ‘Seeds: German East Africa, 1892’. In The Planning Moment: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, edited by Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Anindita Nag, Martina Schlünder, Sarah Van Beurden, and Helen Verran. Fordham University Press.

Nadim, Tahani. 2022. ‘All the Data Creatures’. In Bioinformation Worlds and Futures, edited by E. J. Gonzalez-Polledo and Silvia Posocco. Routledge Studies in Anthropology. Routledge.

Nadim, Tahani. 2021. ‘The Datafication of Nature: Data Formations and New Scales in Natural History’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27 (S1): 62–75. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13480.

Jenny Oliveira Caldas

Doctoral Researcher | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

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Jenny Oliveira Caldas is a doctoral researcher in anthropology at the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ as of August 2025. Her research focuses on queer-feminist and postcolonial studies, epistemic knowledge practices, and histories of emancipatory movements. In her dissertation project, she examines the urban and migration history of Afro-Brazilian women* in Zurich. Alongside her academic work, she is active in political education, including with the European Race and Imagery Foundation (ERIF) and she has also worked for organisations such as the German Institute for Human Rights and Each one Teach One.

Annika Pretzsch

Administration | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

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Annika Pretzsch joined the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ as an administrative assistant in August 2025. She attends to all administrative tasks of the group. Before joining the College, she has worked and continues to work at the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, where she is also part of the Equal Opportunities team. Previously, she completed a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and English at Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Galway (Ireland), and another Bachelor’s degree in Archaeology and Celtic Studies at the University of Bonn.

Dr. Nesrin Tanç

Postdoctoral Researcher | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

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Forschungsschwerpunkte

Kulturelles Wissen, Literatur und andere Künste

Literatursoziologie

Kultur- und Literaturtheorie

Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Türkische Literatur, Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte

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Nesrin Tanç joined the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ as a postdoctoral researcher in August 2025. She is a literary and cultural scholar and author. Previously, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen where she completed her PhD in 2021. During her time at the university, she also contributed to the establishment of the Transnational Literary Archive.

Her dissertation Die Ordnung der Vielfalt (the order of diversity) deals with the literary and cultural heritage of the Ruhr region in the 1970s of the so-called ‘guest workers’ from Turkey. Her new book Kulturelles Gedächtnis und Literatur (cultural memory and literature) was published in August 2025 and contains insights from her cultural practice work. An artistic work on the theme of memory was on display from August to October 2025 as part of the ‘Ruhrtriennale’ festival of the arts 2025 in the exhibition ’Between Creating and Collecting. Exploring Duisburg’s Inner Harbor’.

Dr. Anja Klein

Postdoctoral Researcher | Research project “Diversity in process – Towards multispecies assemblages for biodiversity governance”

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Anja Klein is an anthropologist with a focus in STS and interdisciplinary sustainability science and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher in the international consortium ‘MultiDiv – Diversity in process: Towards multispecies assemblages for biodiversity governance’ (until 2029). In this context, members of the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ (Tahani Nadim) at the College collaborate with researchers in France, Tunisia, Sweden and the Netherlands, aiming to develop multispecies concepts and methodologies to understand causalities and temporalities of biodiversity decline in two Mediterranean case studies.

Before that, Anja Klein worked as a research associate at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and TU Munich in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She studied social and cultural anthropology at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin and Aix-Marseille Université (France). She obtained her PhD in 2025 with a thesis on ‘Doing difference, materiality and complexity with simulation models: An ethnography of modeling social-ecological relations in interdisciplinary sustainability research’. Her first book “Earthly models” was published in September 2026. Beyond RUB, she is a member of the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations in Berlin, the Code Ethnography Collective and stsing e.V.

Forschungsschwerpunkte: environmental anthropology, feminist philosophies of science, interdisciplinarity, multispecies ethnography, archival ethnography, digital ethngoraphy, histories of natural history collections, histories of the Mediteranean

Publikationen: https://www2.hu-berlin.de/sts/people/current-members/klein/ and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anja-Klein-2?ev=hdr_xprf

Marius Hoffmann

Student Assistant | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

Marius Hoffmann is a student assistant in the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ as of April 2025. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Media Studies and Art History. During his studies, he developed his interest in interdisciplinary approaches towards understanding the cultural and historiographical shaping of memory, knowledge and identity. Currently he deepens this interest by studying in the Master’s programme History of Modern and Present Art at Ruhr University Bochum. He is co-editing the professorship’s first collection of seminar outcomes that examines the archive as a contemporary practice in art.

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Roxana Salzburger

Student Assistant | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

Roxana Salzburger joined the College as a student assistant in the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ in March 2025. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Studies, Art History and History at Bielefeld University and is currently studying art history at Master’s level at Ruhr University Bochum. Roxana is co-editing the professorship’s first publication relating topics of working in and out the archive, winner of the 2026 Deubner project prize of the German Association for Art History.

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Stella Weitkamp

Student Assistant | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

Stella Weitkamp works as a student assistant in the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’. Stella holds a Bachelor’s degree in English / American Studies and in Culture, Individual and Society from Ruhr University Bochum and is currently preparing for a Master’s degree in European History. At the College, Stella has co-edited the publication ‘Out of the Archive’, winner of the 2026 Deubner project prize of the German Association for Art History, and co-conceptualised the workshop ‘Archives of (in)action: German academic complicity from South Africa to Palestine’. Outside academia, Stella is an author, recently featured in the anthology ‘Widerstand ist Liebe – Geschichten aus der Palästina-Bewegung in Deutschland’ (2026).

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Anne Tabitha Klier

Student Assistant | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

Anne Tabitha Klier works as a student assistant in the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ since March 2026. Anne Tabitha holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Studies and Philosophy from Leuphana University Lüneburg and currently studies Modern and Contemporary Art History at Master’s level at Ruhr University Bochum. Following a seminar at the College, Anne Tabitha contributes to and co-edits the publication ‘Out of the Archive’.

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Ekin Pınar Ayık

Student Assistant | Research Professorship ‚Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory‘

Ekin Pınar Ayık works as a student assistant in the research professorship ‘Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory’ since April 2026. Ekin is currently doing her Bachelor’s degree in English/Turkish teaching at secondary schools and comprehensive schools at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

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