Team - Lost

Team

Faeeza
Ballim

Network Member

Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at University of Johannesburg

Andrea Behrends

Andrea
Behrends

Network Member

Professor at the University of Bayreuth

Uli
Beisel

Network Member

Professor of Human Geography at Free University of Berlin

Konstantin Biehl

Konstantin
Biehl

Network Member

PhD Researcher at the University of Oslo and the University of Edinburgh

Keith Breckenridge

Keith
Breckenridge

Network Member

Professor and Deputy Director at WiSER, Johannesburg

Ralph Buchenhorst

Ralph
Buchenhorst

Network Member

Associate Professor at the Turkish-German University, Istanbul

Sandra
Calkins

Network Member

Assistant Professor at Free University of Berlin

Daniele Cantini

Daniele
Cantini

Network Member

Senior Research Fellow at the University of Halle

Julia
Eckert

Network Member

Professor at the University of Bern

Susan
Erikson

Network Member

Professor of Global Health at Simon Fraser University

Paul Wenzel Geissler

Paul Wenzel
Geissler

Network Member

Professor at the University of Oslo

Lorenz
Gosch

Network Member

PhD Researcher at the University of Halle

Enrico
Ille

Network Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Leipzig

David Kananizadeh

David
Kananizadeh

Network Member

PhD Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Christof Lammer

Christof
Lammer

Network Member

Postdoctoral Researcher at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt

Siri Lamoureaux

Siri
Lamoureaux

Network Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Siegen

Stacey
Langwick

Network Member

Associate Professor at Cornell University

Laura
Matt

Network Member

PhD Researcher at the University of Bayreuth

Ursula
Rao

Network Member

Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Peter
Redfield

Network Member

Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Luísa Reis Castro

Luísa Reis
Castro

Network Member

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California

Eva
Riedke

Network Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz

Richard Rottenburg

Richard
Rottenburg

Network Member

Professor at WiSER

Timm
Sureau

Network Member

Postdoctoral Researcher at the MPI for Social Anthropology and the University of Halle

Tatjana
Thelen

Network Member

Professor at the University of Vienna

Alena
Thiel

Network Member

Project Lead at the University of Halle

Bertram
Turner

Network Member

Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Former Members

Stefanie Bognitz

Stefanie
Bognitz

Former Member

Independent Researcher

Amy
Field

Former Member

Independent Postdoctoral Researcher

Philippe
Gout

Former Member

Assistant Professor at INALCO, Paris

Remadji Hoinathy

Remadji
Hoinathy

Former Member

Scientific Director of Centre de Recherches en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines, Chad

Kerry
Holden

Former Member

Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London

Guma Kunda Komey

Guma Kunda
Komey

Former Member

Associate Professor of Human and Political Geography

Julien
McHardy

Former Member

Independent Postdoctoral Researcher

Fazil
Moradi

Former Member

Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)

Johanna
Mugler

Former Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Bern

Ronn
Müller

Former Member

Independent Researcher and Activist

Herbert Muyinda

Herbert
Muyinda

Former Member

Senior Lecturer at Makerere University, Kampala

Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Vinh-Kim
Nguyen

Former Member

Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Sung-Joon
Park

Former Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Halle

Fabian Scholtes

Fabian
Scholtes

Former Member

Desk Officer for Responsible Economies, Bischöfliches Hilfswerk MISEREOR e. V.

Katharina Schramm

Katharina
Schramm

Former Member

Professor at the University of Bayreuth

Sylvanus Spencer (1963-2021)

Sylvanus Spencer
(1963-2021)

Former Member

Head of the Department of History and African Studies at the University of Sierra Leone

René
Umlauf

Former Member

Research Scientist at Robert Koch Institute

ABOUT THE LOST RESEARCH NETWORK

The acronym LOST stands for Law, Organization, Science and Technology. Anthropology of Law (L), Organization Studies (O), and Science and Technology Studies (ST) are three vibrant transdisciplinary fields. Working at their intersections and merging their approaches, we also emphasize the economic, political, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of fact-making in the present. The ambition of our detailed ethnographies is to respond to long-standing questions raised in social theory and philosophy, and vice versa, to translate these questions into ethnographic inquiry with a particular focus on critique. We address questions of global and planetary scope, although several of our empirical projects are located in Africa. Since its founding in 2002, LOST has grown from a small group based in Halle, Germany, to a decentralized network of independent scholars in many countries. Its vibrant activities have been winding down for a few years so that during 2024 this website is being turned into an archive.