Dr. Éva Rozália Hölzle
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 |
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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