Hansjörg Dilger, Ph.D.
Title : Assistant Professor, joint appointment with the Center for African Studies
Affiliated Center: Center for African Studies
Interests : African Studies; Anthropology of HIV/Aids; Medical Anthropology; Mobility and Health; Anthropology of Religion and Gender (esp. Masculinities)
Personal Statement
Before joining the University of Florida , I worked as a lecturer and research associate at the Free University of Berlin where I also received my PhD in Anthropology in 2004. My research and teaching address health-related behaviors and ideas in African societies. I am particularly interested in the question of how the cultural, social, religious, and economic processes that have shaped experiences of health and healing in contemporary and historic Africa are being transformed through the high morbidity and mortality rates arising from the HIV/Aids epidemic.
Between 1999 and 2003 I conducted multi-sited fieldwork in rural and urban Tanzania on "Kinship, Morality and Social Relations in the Context of Aids and Rural-Urban Migration". The book that resulted from this research was published as: Leben mit Aids. Krankheit, Tod und soziale Beziehungen in Afrika. Eine Ethnographie (Frankfurt / New York : Campus, 2004). Another article on "Sexuality, Aids and the Lures of Modernity: Reflexivity and Morality among Young People in Rural Tanzania " was published in Medical Anthropology 22 (1) 2003. Since 2004 I have served as chair of the work group Medical Anthropology, which is part of the German Anthropological Association.
Programs : Cultural Anthropology
Office
427 Grinter Hall
P.O. BOX 115560
Gainesville, FL 32611-5560
Telephone: 352-392-2183 x238
Email : hdilger@africa.ufl.edu
