Team > Laura Matt, M.A.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology in Africa

Scientific Career

• 2020: M.A., Social and Cultural Anthropology, MLU Halle-Wittenberg
• 2016: B.A., Ethnologie, Universität Bayreuth

Work experience

• Since April 2021: Research associate in Social and Cultural Anthropology with focus on Africa (Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends, University of Bayreuth)
• March 2020 - April 2021: Research associate in Culture and Technology in Africa (Prof. Dr. Uli Beisel, University of Bayreuth)
  

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology in Africa

Research interests

Relations between humanity and its environment, (feminist) Science and Technology Studies, Multispecies Anthropology.

PhD project

Working title: African Swine Fever

This project engages with attempts to (re)gain control over the African Swine Fever virus in Brandenburg (North-Eastern Germany). On September 10, 2020, the first wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) was confirmed in Germany. In my research, I engage with how the ASF outbreak is experienced by various affected actors. How is the virus encountered? Which logics inform the biosafety measures and how do they materialize? How are these measures put into practice and/or contested by local actors? How are human-wild boar relations changing? Whom and what does the ASF activate, what does it fuel visible? Those are among the questions that guide my PhD project.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology in Africa

Laura Matt, M.A.
Anthropology in Africa | Research Associate

Universität Bayreuth
Buiding: Zapf Haus 4
Room: 4.3.29
Nürnberger Straße 38
​D-95448 Bayreuth

Office hours: by appointment via E-mail

E-mail: laura.matt@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie | Universität Bayreuth