About
Since 2023 Melina Götze has been a research associate and Ph.D. candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Goethe University Frankfurt. After completing her B.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the LMU Munich, she studied the M.A. Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth. Her PhD research project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert examines translocal lifeworlds of people from Ghana in Germany with a temporary residence status focusing on the (un)doing of belonging and citizenship.
Areas of research and interest
- Political and legal anthropology with an emphasis on transnationalism, migration and border processes
- Affective, political and legal dimensions of belonging and citizenship
- Anthropology of the state and bureaucratic practices
- Phenomenological approaches and lifeworld research in anthropology
Research projects
Since 2023 Ph.D. research project: “Moving (non-)citizenship: Translocal lifeworlds of people from Ghana with a temporary legal
status in Germany", supervisor Prof. Dr. Mirco Göpfert
2020 – 2022 M.A. research project: “Non-citizen – Non-politics? Contested citizenship projects around a refugee camp in
Bamberg", supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katharina Schramm and Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends
2018 – 2019 B.A. research project: “Between the labor market and self-empowerment – women in 'integration programs' in
Landsberg and Munich", supervisor: Prof. Dr. Magnus Treiber
Teaching activities
2023 Introduction to scholarly work, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt
2022 Tutor History and Debates of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology,
University of Bayreuth
2021 – Tutor Introduction in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of
2022 Bayreuth
2020 Tutor Observation and ethnographic Interview, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
Other academic activities
2020 – 2022 Student assistant in the project Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood, Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber and Prof. Dr. Iris Clemens, Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple EXC 2052, University of Bayreuth
2018 – 2020 Student assistant, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
Personal webpages
Academia https://uni-frankfurt.academia.edu/MelinaG%C3%B6tze
Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melina-Goetze
