Dr. Miriam Gutekunst is a cultural anthropologist. She is researching and teaching during the summer semester as a visiting professor for intersectional gender studies at Leuphana University.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of migration and border regime studies, gender studies, knowledge and political anthropology, feminist movements as a research subject and perspective, the practice of (ethnographic) writing, and questions of engaged scholarship.
In her current research project, “Ambivalent Gender Knowledge: Negotiations of Cultural Difference in Feminist Initiatives in Post-Migrant Society” (DFG, 2023-2027, LMU Munich), she ethnographically investigates the gender knowledge of feminist initiatives that are committed to combating phenomena such as “forced marriage” and “female genital mutilation.” She is interested in how the relationship between gender and cultural difference is known, contested, and positioned in political action in these fields.
As part of her doctoral research, she conducted transnational ethnographic research between Morocco and Germany, examining the conflictual implementation of EU migration policies using the example of “family reunification.” In 2018, she published a book titled “Grenzüberschreitungen: Migration, Heirat und staatliche Regulierung im europäischen Grenzregime” (Crossing Borders: Migration, Marriage, and State Regulation in the European Border Regime).
Further information on her CV, publications, and activities can be found here.