Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly

Senior Researcher
Research Department:
Glocal Junctions

E-Mail: kurzwelly@prif.org

CV

since 2024	Senior Researcher at PRIF
2022–2024	Associate Fellow at PRIF
2020–2023	Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany
since 2020	Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of the Free State, South Africa
2017–2020	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of the Free State, South Africa
2019–2020	Visiting Researcher at AHCISP (Anthropology and History of the Construction of Social and Political Identities), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
2017	PhD in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews, UK
2013	MA in Anthropological Research, University of Manchester, UK
2012	BA in Cultural Anthropology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Dr Jonatan Kurzwelly is working on the following issues:

Identity Politics and Social Justice | 2023: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Spiegel, Andrew D. (eds), (2023): Identity Politics and Social Justice, (Vol. 47), Berlin: Springer Nature, https://link.springer.com/journal/10624/volumes-and-issues/47-1.; Show details

Bones and Injustices: Provenance research, restitutions, and identity politics. Dialectical Anthropology. | 2022: Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2022): Bones and Injustices: Provenance research, restitutions, and identity politics. Dialectical Anthropology., in: Dialectical Anthropology, DOI: 10.1007/s10624-022-09670-9.; Show details

Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste Vergangene und gegenwärtige Perspektiven im interdisziplinären Dialog | 2022: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Wilckens, Malin S (2022): Wert und Verwendung menschlicher Überreste Vergangene und gegenwärtige Perspektiven im interdisziplinären Dialog, in: Historische Anthropologie, 30:3, 329–349, DOI: 10.7788/hian.2022.30.3.329.; Show details

Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains | 2022: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Wilckens, Malin S (2022): Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains, in: Anthropological Theory, 1-23, DOI: 10.1177/14634996221133872.; Show details

Custody and custodianship: A reflection on collection terminology through the lens of human remains | 2021: Regina Bendix, Jonatan Kurzwelly, Custody and custodianship: A reflection on collection terminology through the lens of human remains, 2021.; Show details

Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city | 2021: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Escobedo, Luis (2021): Violent categorisation, relative privilege and migrant experiences in a post-apartheid city, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.; Show details

Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories | 2021: Escobedo, Luis / Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Agbedahin, Komlan (2021): Transcending social categories: Reflections on research concerning migrant lives, lived experiences and life stories, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.; Show details

Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein | 2021: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Escobedo, Luis (eds), (2021): Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.; Show details

Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum | 2021: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Fernana, Hamid / Ngum, Muhammad Elvis (2021): Extremism, essentialism and identity: The life story of Muhammad Elvis Ngum, in: Jonatan Kurzwelly, Luis Escobedo (ed.), Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers: Negotiating Meaning and Making Life in Bloemfontein, Cape Town: HSRC Press, https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/migrants-thinkers-storytellers.; Show details

The allure of essentialism and extremist ideologies | 2020: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Fernana, Hamid / Ngum, Muhammad Elvis (2020): The allure of essentialism and extremist ideologies, in: Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:2, 107–118, DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1759435.; Show details

Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism | 2020: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Rapport, Nigel / Spiegel, Andrew D. (2020): Encountering, explaining and refuting essentialism, in: Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:2, 65–81, DOI: 10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141.; Show details

Ethnographic Encounters with Essentialism | 2020: Kurzwelly, Jonatan / Rapport, Nigel / Spiegel, Andrew D. (eds), (2020): Ethnographic Encounters with Essentialism, (Vol. 43), 65–81, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/23323256.2020.1780141?needAccess=true&role=button..; Show details

Photographic Complementarity, and the Story of Abel Pavon | 2019: Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2019): Photographic Complementarity, and the Story of Abel Pavon, in: Visual Anthropology, 32:5, 460–475, DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2019.1671752.; Show details

Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino: Exploring the Relation Between Social and Personal Identity | 2019: Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2019): Being German, Paraguayan and Germanino: Exploring the Relation Between Social and Personal Identity, in: Identity, 19:2, 144–156, DOI: 10.1080/15283488.2019.1604348.; Show details

Photographs as Sources in African History | 2018: Gordon, Robert / Kurzwelly, Jonatan (2018): Photographs as Sources in African History, in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.250.; Show details

since 2021	Chair of the Commission on the Study of Divisiveness, Discrimination and Marginalisation (SDDM), of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
2021–2023	Consultant and associate researcher, in the “Ressourcensuche als Auslöser von Kolonisationsprozessen?” project at University of Tübingen
2019–2022	Member of the Executive Council of the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) association