Email: eva-rozalia.hoelzle@uni-due.de

Personal website: https://éva-rozália.hölzle.de

 

Research Focus:

  • Anthropology of Living and Dying
  • Anthropology of Kinship, Ethics, and Generation
  • Anthropology of Violence and Agency

Regional Focus

  • Bangladesh and Northeast India (Assam, Tripura, and Meghalaya)
  • Gulf Region

 

Academic Career

2026  2028 Guest researcher, Centre for Global Cooperation Reserach, Universität Duisburg-Essen
2025 – 2028 Principal investigator in the scientific network “Kinship Generations: Ethnographic Perspectives from across Africa, Asia and the Middle East”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Centre for Global Cooperation Reserach, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2023 – 2025

Principal investigator in the project “Cultivating Ethics across Generations” (CEAG), funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Bielefeld University, Germany

2017 – 2025 Research associate and lecturer at the Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2019 – 2024 Coordinator in the research network Shaping Asia
2020 – 2023 Research associate in the project “Knowledge Production and Circulation” of the Shaping Asia Research Network, led by Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
2022 Visiting professorship at Kathmandu University and Tribhuvan University, Nepal
2018 – 2019 Post-doctoral fellow at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS-MP), an Indo-German research cooperation funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, New Delhi, India
2017 Visiting lecturer at Kathmandu University, Nepal
2013 – 2017 Research collaborator and lecturer at the Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2011 – 2014 Research collaborator in the research project “Micro dynamics of political communication in the World Society. The Social Life of the Democracy Concept in Bangladesh and Senegal”, funded by DFG, Research Group Social Anthropology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

 

Academic Education

2017-08-28 Defense of the doctoral dissertation (summa cum laude)
2012-02 – 2017-08   Doctoral studies in Social Anthropology, Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany
2009-04 – 2011-07 Master of Arts in Sociology (major in Social Anthropology), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

2007-04 – 2009-03

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (major in Social Anthropology), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2002-09 – 2004-10 Study of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

 

Publications (selection)

Hölzle, Éva Rozália. 2025. “Ambivalences of Belonging”. Oxford Intersections: Borders, Citizenship, Belonging, and Exclusion.
DOI: 10.1093/9780198945222.003.0012

Hölzle, Éva Rozália. 2024. “From Talent to Expertise: Cultivating Medical Sensibilities among War-Khasis at the Bangladesh-Northeast India Borderlands”. American Behavioral Scientist.
DOI: 10.1177/00027642241246697

Hölzle, Éva Rozália, and Magdalena Suerbaum. 2024. “Kinship generations in the context of succession and motherhood”. Lova: Journal of Gender Studies and Feminists Anthropology 44: 101-123.
PDF: https://lovanetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Holzle-and-Sauerbaum-2023.-Kinship-generations-in-the-context-of-succession-and-motherhood.-LovaJournal44-p101-123.pdf

Hölzle, Éva Rozália, and Pfaff-Czarnecka, Joanna, eds. 2023. The Price of Belonging: Perspectives from Asia. Vol. 43. Social Sciences in Asia. Leiden, Boston: Brill.
DOI: 10.1163/9789004537965

Hölzle, Éva Rozália. 2023. “Caring for the Pan: The Collaborative, Multi-layered and Temporal Dynamics of Agricultural Knowledge among War-Khasi Farmers”. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 54 (2): 151–171.
DOI: 10.11588/iqas.2023.2.20368

Hölzle, Éva Rozália. 2023. “Experiencing Land Loss: Land Dispossession in the Name of National Security in Sylhet District, Bangladesh”. Journal of Borderland Studies 38 (2).
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2023.2177705
WoS: 000935824300001

Hölzle, Éva Rozália. 2022. Land, Life, and Emotional Landscapes at the Margins of Bangladesh. Vol. 7. Transforming Asia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
DOI: 10.5117/9789463721752