CURRICULUM VITAE Current positions Academic Education and

CURRICULUM VITAE
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Eva Keller
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20. 07. 1965
Current positions
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Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Responsible for Competence Development at ‘Tanne Stiftung für Taubblinde’ (Centre for
Deafblind People), Langnau am Albis, Switzerland (half-time)
Academic Education and Degrees
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Ph.D. in Social Anthropology 2002, LSE, University of London
Licentiate (MA) in Social Anthropology (Major), Cultural studies
(First Minor), Linguistics (Second Minor), University of Zurich
1997 – 2002
1991 – 1997
Social anthropologicial field research
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Madagascar: 34 months (since 1998)
Switzerland (between 2006–2012, see Beyond the Lens of Conservation, published February 2015)
Cyprus: 6 months (1995–1996)
Academic Scholarships and Awards
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Beitrag an den Lebensunterhalt, Swiss National Science Foundation SNF (2006–2009)
Nachwuchsförderungskredit, University of Zurich (2005–2006)
Sutasoma Award, Royal Anthropological Institute, Britain (2002)
Alfred Gell Memorial Studentship, LSE, University of London (2000)
Central Research Fund, University of London (1998)
Overseas Research Student Award, British Council (1998–2000)
Janggen-Pöhn Stiftung, Switzerland (1998–2000)
Stays abroad prior to University Education
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Madagascar (4 months)
England (20 months)
Greece (20 months)
1987
1987 – 1989
1989 – 1991
Languages
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German/Swiss German (first language)
English (excellent)
Malagasy (very good)
French (very good)
Modern Greek (good)
Italian (basic)
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Employment history
Academic employment
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Lecturer on various topics
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
Lecturer on ‘Thesis writing in the Social Sciences’
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Zurich
Lecturer on Human Ecology
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Berne
Assistant Teacher
Dept. of Social Anthropology, LSE, University of London
btw. 2005 – 2013
2010 – 2012
2007, 2004 – 2005
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Non-academic employment
Responsible for Competence Development, Tanne
Privat teacher in English and Modern Greek (part-time)
Various part-time jobs as secretary and market researcher
(Switzerland, London)
• Social worker in a home for mentally handicapped children, Zurich
• Social worker at Tanne
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since Feb. 2010
1991 – 1997
1987 – 1991
1986 – 1987
1985 – 1986
Academic Publications
Books
2015: Beyond the Lens of Conservation. Malagasy and Swiss Imaginations of One Another. New York,
Oxford: Berghahn.
Reviewed in:
• Anthropology Review Database, 3 May 2015, by Jack David Eller
2005: The Road to Clarity. Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar. New York, Houndmills: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Reviewed in:
• Andrews University Seminary Studies 44 (2): 368–70, Autumn 2006, by Stefan Höschele
• Anthropology News (AAA Newsletter) 48 (1): 57–58, Jan. 2007, by Simon Coleman
• American Anthropologist 109 (2): 389–90, June 2007, by Lesley A. Sharp
• Horizontes Antropologicos 13 (27): 365–368, Jan./June 2007, by Marisa Peeters
• Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (3): 774–75, Sept. 2007, by Michael Lambek
• Spectrum 36 (1): 75–76, Winter 2008, by Rich Hannon
• Anthropos 103 (1): 267, January 2008, by Jennifer Cole
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Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
2010
• Das Kokosnuss-Schema – Wie Kinder in der Schweiz Afrika wahrnehmen. In: Grunder, HansUlrich and Gut, Adolf (eds.): Zum Umgang mit Heterogenität in Schule und Gesellschaft.
Baltmannsweiler: Schneider.
• Rituel vécu. In: Garlinski, M. and Hopkins, E. (eds.): A Madagascar. Photographies de Jacques
Faublée, 1938–1941 (pp. 42–43). Geneva: Musée d’ethnographie des Genève & Gollion: Infolio.
2009
• The danger of misunderstanding ‘culture’. Madagascar Conservation & Development 4 (2): 82–85.
• ‘Who are they’? Local understandings of NGO and state power in Masoala, Madagascar. Tsantsa
14: 11–20.
2008
• The Banana plant and the moon: Conservation and the Malagasy ethos of life in Masoala,
Madagascar. American Ethnologist 35 (4): 650–664.
2007
• Why, exactly, is the world as it is? In: Astuti, R., Parry, J. and Stafford, Ch. (eds.): Questions of
Anthropology. Oxford, New York: Berg.
2006
• Scripture-study as ‘normal science’: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of
Madagascar. In: Cannell, F. (ed.): The Anthropology of Christianity. Durham: Duke University
Press.
2004
• Towards complete clarity: Bible study among Seventh-day Adventists in Madagascar.
Ethnos 69 (1): 89–112.
1997
• Looking at the house from inside: The processes of constructing group identity amongst GreekCypriots. Cyprus Review 1997 (2): 41–56.
Editorial work
2012
• Madagascar Conservation & Development Special Issue, Volume 7, issue 2S, Novembre 2012,
Edited together with Barry Ferguson. http://journalmcd.com/index.php/mcd/issue/archive
Comments
2007
• Current Anthropology 48 (1): 23–24. Comment on Robbins, Joel: Continuity thinking and the
problem of Christian culture: Belief, time and the anthropology of Christianity.
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Reviews
2011
• Cole, Jennifer 2010: Sex and Salvation. Imagining the future in Madagascar. Chicago and London:
University of Chicago Press. Review published in Critique of Anthropology
2009
• Galvin, Marc and Tobias Haller 2008: People, Protected Areas and Global Change. Participatory
conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Bern: Geographica Bernensia (Swiss
National Centre of Competence (NCCR) North-South, University of Berne, Perspectives 3. Review
published in Tsantsa 14: 174–175.
• Graeber, David 2007: Lost People. Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar. Bloomington
and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. Review published in African Studies Review, 52 (1): pp.
165–167.
2005
• Robbins, Joel 2004: Becoming Sinners. Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea
society. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press.
Review published in Ethnos, 70 (4): 568–570.
2004
• Harper, Janice 2002: Endangered Species. Health, illness and death among Madagascar’s people of
the forest. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. Review published in Journal of the
Royal Anthropological Institute, 10 (1): 210–211.
• Cole, Jennifer 2001: Forget colonialism? Sacrifice and the art of memory in Madagascar. Berkeley
et al.: University of California Press.
Review published in Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 10 (2): 478–479.
2003
• Bechtloff, Dagmar 2002: Madagaskar und die Missionare: technisch-zivilisatorische Transfers in
der Früh- und Endphase europäischer Expansionsbestrebungen. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
Review published in The International History Review, 25 (3): 648–649.
Academic Presentations
2011
• Power and Morality. Swiss and Malagasy perspectives of a biodiversity conservation project. Paper
presented at the ‘Colloque international: Anthropologie comparative des sociétés insulaires de
l’océan indien occidental’, University of Paris, Nanterre. 27–29 April 2011.
• What are we talking about? Malagasy and Swiss views of a biodiversity conservation project. Paper
presented at the University of Lucerne, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 6 April 2011.
• Histoire et biodiversité. Paper presented at Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques,
Départment des Eaux et Forêts, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar, 7 Jan. 2011.
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2010
• Reactions to Critical Voices. Paper presented at the conference ‘Voices from Madagascar’s forests:
improving representation and rights of Malagasy forest peoples. University of East Anglia, Dept. of
International Development, 5–6 June 2010
• Environmentalism as an evolutionary step towards modernity. How Swiss children imagine the
Malgasy. Paper presented at the University of Lucerne, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
23 March 2010.
• Thinking about History: Evangelical Christianity and Biodiversity Conservation in Madagascar.
Paper presented at the conference on ‘Salvation, Transformation and Modernity in Africa:
Development NGOs and Pentecostal Churches as Contemporary Agents of Change’, in Honor of
Professor S. N. Eisenstadt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Van Leer Institute Jerusalem, 6–7
Jan. 2010
2009
• Swiss children’s imaginations of the Malagasy. Paper presented at the Conference on Imagination,
Vrije University in Amsterdam, 29 Sept. 2009.
• Environmentalism as an evolutionary step towards modernity. How Swiss people imagine the
Malagasy. Paper presented at Brunel University, University of London, Dept. of Social
Anthropology, 8 Oct. 2009
2007
• La représentation de la conservation de ‘la nature’ à Zurich et à Masoala. Paper presented at the
Musée d’art et d’archéologie, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar, 6 Feb. 2007
• People in history, people outside history. Paper presented at the International Madagascar
Symposium on Society, Natural Resources and Development , University of East Anglia, 30–31
March 2007
• The Bananenstaude und der Mond. Conservation auf der Halbinsel Masoala, Madagaskar. Paper
presented at the University of Zurich, Dept. of Social Anthropology, 26 Sept. 2007
2006
• Les adventistes du septième jour à Maroantsetra. Paper presented at the Musée d’art et
d’archéologie, Université d’Antananarivo, Madagascar, 28 Feb. 2006
• People in history, people outside history. Paper presented at the EASA Conference 2006, Bristol,
18–21 Sept. 2006
2005
• How, exactly, does the world work? Paper presented at the LSE, University of London. Special
workshop in honour of Maurice Bloch, 24–25 June 2005
• Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar: Dealing with new uncertainties. Paper presented at the
AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, SOAS, University of London, 29–30 June 2005
2004
• Seventh-day Adventism in Madagascar: Dealing with new uncertainties. Paper presented at the
EASA conference 2004, Vienna, 8–11 Sept. 2004
2002
• Study and Discovery: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar. Paper
presented at UCL, University of London, 16 Jan. 2002
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• Ist es eine Religion? Adventismus in Madagaskar. Paper presented at the University of Zurich,
Dept. of Social Anthropology, 11 June 2002
2001
• What it means to be a Seventh-day Adventist in Madagascar. Paper presented at the LSE,
University of London, 26 Oct. 2001
Referee for Academic Articles and Grant Proposals submitted to:
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
Anthropological Theory
Social Anthropology
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Anthropological Quarterly
Madagascar Conservation and Development
Critique of Anthropology
Human Ecology
Presentations and Workshops at Universities of Applied Sciences
2010
• Presentation at the University of Applied Sciences, School for Teacher Education, Solothurn,
Switzerland, 11 May 2010 (current research project with Swiss primary school classes)
2009
• Presentation and workshop at Institut Unterstrass: University of Applied Sciences, School for
Teacher Education, Zurich. 27 August 2009. (‘Heterogenität – Focus Afrika’)
Publications in Newspapers and Newsletters
2014
• Der Masoala Nationalpark in Madagaskar. Die Interessen der betroffenen Bevölkerung werden
nicht genügend gewahrt. Afrika-Bulletin, 154: 4–5 (with Esther Leemann)
2011
• Wenn die Weltbank zu Besuch kommt. Die Wochenzeitung, 29 September 2011.
2010
• Historische Dimensionen eines Konfliktes: der Masoala Nationalpark in Madagaskar.
Sukkulentenwelt 15: 16–20.
2009
• Schattenseiten des Masoala Nationalparks in Madagaskar
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25 June 2009
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2008
• Ethnograf mit Leib und Seele. Zum Rücktritt von Michael Oppitz.
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8/9 March 2008
• Afrikastudien in Zürich. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien. Newsletter 2008/2
Published Discussions
2013
• Die Schattenseite des Vorzeigeparks. Landbote, 31.8.2013.
2010
• Wenn Ökologie dem Menschen schadet. In: Horizonte. Journal of the Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNF). Nr. 85, June 2010: pp. 8–9 (Publication in German and in French)
• Zutritt verboten? In: Partnerschaft. Journal of Helvetas (Focus: Nature Conservation versus Human
Rights). Nr. 200, Mai 2010: pp. 10–12 (Publication in German and in French)
• By Katherine Marhsall: A parable for environmentalists. Column in ‘The Washington Post’ (Faith
in Action) on Eva Keller’s work. 25 Jan. 2010.
Radio and Television Programmes, Filmed Interviews
2013
• Special edition of television programme ‘Einstein’, SRF 1, 28.3.2013
(http://www.srf.ch/sendungen/einstein/einstein-spezial/einstein-spezial-10-jahre-masoala-halle-inzuerich)
• Radio programme: ‘Madagaskar: Naturschutzgebiet kein Segen für die Menschen’. SRF4 News,
‘Aktuell’, 6.3.2013 (http://www.srf.ch/sendungen/srf-4-aktuell/madagaskar-naturschutzgebietkein-segen-fuer-die-menschen)
• Filmed interview: ‘Wenn Naturschutz zum Risiko wird’. Scientifica 2013, 31.8. – 1.9. 2013
(https://vimeo.com/74191187)
2009
• Radio programme: ‘Wem dient der Masoala-Park in Madagaskar?’ DRS 2, ‘Kontext’, 12.10. 2009
(http://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kontext/wem-dient-der-masoala-park-in-madagaskar)
• Radio programme: ‘Ausflug auf die Masoala-Halbinsel in Madagaskar’. DRS 2, ‘Atlas’,
29.11.2009 (http://www.srf.ch/play/radio/atlas/audio/ausflug-auf-die-masoala-halbinsel-inmadagaskar?id=c837116d-e869-4419-84f0-ef27c48f0d54)
Human Rights Activity
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In 2010, I founded Human Rights in Masoala, an association which is dedicated to drawing
attention to injustices committed against the local population in Masoala, Madagascar, in the name
of nature conservation. Read more at: www.humanrightsmasoala.org.
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Organisation of Conferences and Visiting Scholarships
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Organisation of international conference (together with Barry Ferguson, Nadine Fritz-Vietta and
Jacques Pollini):‘Voices from Madagascar’s forests: improving representation and rights of
Malagasy forest peoples. University of East Anglia, Dept. of International Development, 5–6 June
2010
Dr RAZAFIARIVONY, Michel. Institut de Civilisations/Musée d’art et d’archéologie, Université
d’Antananarivo (Madagascar). Organisation of a three-week visit as Academic Scholar by Dr
Razafiarivony at the University of Zurich, Dept. of Social Anthropology (Nov. 2009)
AEGIS European Conference on African Studies in London, 30.6. – 2.7. 2005.
Organisation of two conference panels on the anthropology of Madagascar (together with Sandra
Evers from Vrije University in Amsterdam)
Museum work
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Scientific advisor for the exhibition A Madagascar. Photographies de Jacques Faublée, 1938–
1941. Musée d’ethnographie de Genève.
Teaching
• University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Transferable Skills (2010 – 2012)
- Thesis Writing and Publishing in the Social Sciences (PhD students in the Social Sciences)
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University of Zurich, Dept. of Social Anthropology (2002–2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013)
- Introduction to Social Anthropology (BA)
- Christian Fundamentalism (MA)
- Cognitive Anthropology (MA)
- Ethnic conflicts in Africa (MA)
- Ethnicity and Nationalism (BA and MA)
- Ethnicity in Madagascar (MA)
- Global environmentalism (MA)
- Nature and Culture (MA)
- Dynamic processes in African Societies (BA and MA)
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University of Berne, Dept. of Social Anthropology (2004-2005, 2007)
- Introduction to Social Anthropology (BA)
- Human Ecology (BA)
- Nature and Culture (MA)
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University of London, LSE (Michaelmas term 2001)
- Anthropology of religion (BA)
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