Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
Research Area Globalization
Jan Linhart is an anthropologist who focuses on relations between divergent knowledge cultures in the context of structural inequality. In 2008, Jan Linhart earned his Master's degree at LMU Munich with a research thesis on indigenous universities in Latin America and soon after moved to Brazil, where he worked in research and teaching until 2019. During this period, he also conducted participatory action research with an indigenous research collective, providing the empirical basis for his doctoral thesis on the geopolitics of scientific universalism at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the European University Viadrina. Since 2022, Jan Linhart has been Senior Research Associate for the research area Globalization at the Center for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn, from where he researches the foundations of pluriversal dialogues on alternative futures together with an international research collective.
Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
53113 Bonn
2022
PhD in Cultural Studies, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt a.O., Germany
2008
Master in Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
2022 – present
Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn, Germany
Senior Research Associate (research area Globalisation)
2014 - 2017
DeVry, João Pessoa, Braazil (private university)
College Lecturer (Social Sciences, Research Methods, Political Sciences)
2012 - 2014
Florida Christian University, USA / Unifuturo, João Pessoa, Brazil (private university, joint venture) College Lecturer (Educational Anthropology) Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) (federal university), Brazil Researcher
2010 – 2011
FuerUndWider.org, Berlin (on behalf of Heinrich-Böll-Foundation)
Researcher/Consultant (Interviews, visual argument mapping)
2008 - 2012
Echo-Source e.V., Berlin (social business, development of e-democracy solutions)
Founder/Executive Board Member
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