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 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, 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.