Dr. Klaus Behnam Shad
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Curriculum Vitae
September 2024 – Present
Postdoctoral Researcher with Teaching Responsibilities
University of Luxembourg | Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Principal Investigator of the LIFE project (2024–2027)
Oral History Coordinator of the C²DH
Co-lead of the doctoral colloquium Transnational History and Digital Methods (with Prof. Dr. Machteld Venken)
October 2023 – August 2024
Independent research
Berlin
Completion of the monographs Die Sortierung der Menschheit and The Sorting of Humanity (transcript, 2026)
September 2020 – September 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher with Teaching Responsibilities
Freie Universität Berlin | Department of Political and Social Sciences | Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
September 2020 – March 2021 in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 1171 “Affective Societies”, from April 2021 at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2016 – 2020
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Freie Universität Berlin | Department of Political and Social Sciences
Title of Doctoral Dissertation: Die emotionale Erfahrung des Asyls. Lebenswelten afghanischer Geflüchteter in Berlin (The Emotional Experience of Asylum: Lifeworlds of Afghan Refugees in Berlin)
Defense: April 20, 2020
Publications
Teaching
Peer review
SN Social Sciences (since 2024), Regulation & Governance (since 2026)
Education
PhD Social and Cultural Anthropology | Freie Universität Berlin
MA Social and Cultural Anthropology | University of Cologne
BA Social and Cultural Anthropology | University of Cologne
BA Musicology | University of Cologne