Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sanderien Verstappen
Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sanderien Verstappen
Tenure Track in Visual Anthropology
Contact Details
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Vienna
NIG, 4th floor
Room: B0420
T: +43-1-4277-49527
E-Mail: sanderien.verstappen@univie.ac.at
Homepage: https://www.sanderienverstappen.com/
Research Focus Areas
- Visual and multimodal anthropology: representations, (in)visibilities, ethnographic media practices
- Mobility studies: urban mobility, rural-urban linkages, transnational migration, displacement
- Urban studies: development, urbanization, segregation, neighborhoods, place-making
Short Biography
Sanderien Verstappen is assistant professor with tenure track in social and cultural anthropology with a focus on 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, social inequality, and the politics of belonging. As a visual anthropologists trained in ethnographic filmmaking, she uses film as a research method and as a means of communicating with varied audiences, including the research participants themselves. At the University of Vienna she directs the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab, which supports multimodal approaches in research and teaching.
An overview of her publications and films is on her website.