Research Focus Areas

• Visual and multimodal anthropology
• (In)visibilities
• Mobility: migration, transnationalism, displacement
• Development: urbanization, residential segregation, rural-urban linkages
• Regional focus: Global South Asia

Short Biography

Sanderien Verstappen is Assistant Professor with Tenure Track in Visual Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna. Her long-term research interests include mobility and migration, development and social inequality, marginalization and displacement, and the politics of (in)visibility. As a visual anthropologists trained in ethnographic filmmaking, she uses film as a research method and medium of publishing while also developing multimodal approaches in both teaching and research.

An overview of her publications and films is on her website.