Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Thelen

Professor

Department of Methods
in the Social Sciences
University of Vienna
Rathausstraße 19/1/9
A-1010 Vienna

E-mail: tatjana.thelen@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-49916
Fax:     +43-1-4277-9499

Office hours: Tuesday, 2-3 pm

Please note: Students' requests and questions can only be discussed during office hours either by phone or personally. Requests by email cannot be answered.

• CV
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• Teaching
• Research Areas: Care and Social Security, Kinship and Gender, Political Anthropology, Social Change, Post-socialist Societies, Social Networks and relational theory

Tatjana Thelen is currently a professor for ethnographic methods and social network analysis at the University of Vienna. She obtained her Phd in Social Anthropology at the Freie Universität in Berlin with a comparative study on post-socialist privatisation in Hungary and Romania. She taught courses in Social Anthropology as a senior lecturer at the university of Zurich (Switzerland) as well as at the Universities of Szeged (Hungary), Berlin and Halle (Germany). Within the interdisciplinary project on Kinship and Social Security (KASS), financed within the sixth framework program of the European Commission, she acted as lead researcher of the German anthropological team. Recently she headed the research project on "Local State and Social security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia" funded by the Volkswagen foundation based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Germany). Her research interests inlclude: Care and social security relations, local state formations, kinship, social networks, and post-socialist transformations.