Phone: 069/798-33078
E-Mail: goepfert (at) em.uni-frankfurt.de
Room: IG 557
Office hours: Registration via terminplaner
Mirco Göpfert is professor for social and cultural anthropology. He received his doctorate in anthropology from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2014 and taught at the University of Konstanz before coming to the Goethe University in 2018.
Also, Mirco (he/him) is a first generation academic, so please get in touch if you need help or seek advice!
Research project
Humour as an Epistemic Practice of the Political Present [NoJoke]
Main research interests
- Humour and satire (as epistemic practices)
- Anthropology of the state and bureaucratic practice / violence and security / crime and punishment / power and resistance
- Relational ontology / phenomenological approaches in anthropology / practice theory
- Heuristic and methodology of ethnographic research
Publications
The complete list of publications can be found here.
TeamSophia Hornbacher-Schönleber (Research associate)
Gil Hızı (Research associate)
Moritz Post (NoJoke)
Raúl Acosta Garcia (NoJoke)
Prateek (NoJoke)
Timo Roßmann (PhD candidate | ELLVIS-Pilotprojekt “Kollaborative Ethnologie“)
Helena Zohdi (PhD candidate)