Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

• Oktober 2018 - September 2019
  • Dean of the Faculty of Sociology of Bielefeld University

• 2011-today
  • Scientific Member of the Senate at German Research Foundation (DFG)

• 2011-2019
  • Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld University

• 2007-2009
  • Prorector for Organisational Development, Bielefeld University

• 2006-2007
  • Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

• 2004
  • Offer for a chair at the University of Vienna: declined

• 2001-today
  • Full Professor for Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

• 2001
  • Acting Director of the Center for Development Research, Department for Political and Cultural Change, Visiting Professor (50 %), University of Bonn

• 2000-2001
  • Visiting Professor for Social Anthropology (50 %), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

• 1999-2001
  • Senior Research Fellow, Center for Development Research, establishment and management of the Research Programme 'Human Rights and Development'; deputy director, University of Bonn

• 1998
  • Employment in Nepal within the first mission of the International Committe of the Red Cross as a translator (Nepali-English; Nepali-French)

• 1997-2000
  • Research fellow at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1996
  • Member of the Working Committee of the Academy of Human Rights, Bern

• 1994-1997
  • Scientific collaborator at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1994-1997
  • Lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1993-1994
  • Lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1992-2002
  • Founding and board member of the 'SUPRAS' company (Consultants on Culture and Development)

• 1989-today
  • Consultant on development for INFRAS and DEZA in the projects: 'Integrated Hill Development Project' (IHDP); 'Lamosangu-Jiri Road Project' (LJRP); 'Rural-Urban Interlinkages: A Challenge for Swiss Development Cooperation'; 'National Conservation Strategy'

• 1988-1990
  • Scientific collaborator at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1988-1990
  • Lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1986-1987
  • Lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Bern

• 1984-1986
  • Scientific collaborator at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1983-1986
  • Lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, University of Zurich

• 1983-1984
  • Lecturer at the Institute for Ethnology, University of Bern

Guest lecturers & visiting fellowships abroad

• 2007
  • Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

• 1999
  • Visiting Professor for Social Anthropology at the Institute of Area Studies (summer term), Tokyo University

• 1997-1998
  • Visiting Fellow at the Wolfson College, University of Oxford

• 1997-1998
  • Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

• 1992
  • Implementating a series of seminars with David Gellner, University of Oxford

• 1992
  • Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford

• 1992
  • Short term professional staff-member at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu

• 1990-1991
  • Short term professional staff-member at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu