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Thiago Pinto Barbosa won the Frobenius research promotion award and the prize of the German Historical Institute London 2023 for his outstanding dissertation.
13.11.2023
Prof. Dr. Roland Hardenberg, Thiago Pinto Barbosa | Foto: Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm
As one of two laureates, Thiago Pinto Barbosa receives the Frobenius research promotion award 2023 for his dissertation titled „Science and Human Difference in Germany and India: The Production and Circulation of Anthropological Knowledge in Irawati Karve’s Work and Legacy”.
The dissertation connects recent debates in the history of social and cultural anthropology with archival material and data gathered during field work on the Indian anthropologist Irawati Karve as well as on the legacy of her work. Not only does this contribute to the history of German ethnology and anthropology (Karve studied in Berlin between 1927-1930), but also importantly adds to the research on ethnology and population genetics in India which is still influenced by Karve until today. With his work, Barbosa fills in significant gaps of the transnational history of social and cultural anthropology and also of the legacy of scientific racism in researching human diversity.
Furthermore, Thiago Pinto Barbosa received the 2023 Prize of the German Historical Institute London for his "empirically detailed and intellectually ambitious" Ph.D. thesis. The Prize was presented on the occasion of the GHIL’s Annual Lecture on 3 November 2023. Official press release.
Congratulations!