Dafina Gashi, M.A.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Doctoral Project: "Beauty Practices and the Pursuit of Belonging among Young Women in Post-Independence Kosovo"
PhD Supervision: Prof. Dr. Čarna Brković
Department: Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
MA in Anthropology and Visual Studies
Master's Thesis: "Border Dwelling Bodies - An Ethnographic Research of Migrant Women in Siena, Italy."
BA in Humanities
Bachelor's Thesis: "Verso casa e ritorno. Etnografia del viaggio estivo nel paese d'origine, in contesto migratorio"
(Round trip: Ethnography of the summer trip to the country of origin, in a migratory context).
Research & Study Abroad
BA in Humanities
Erasmus Exchange Student (Winter Semester / Summer Semester 2013/2014)
Professional Experience
Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Institute for Film, Theater, Media and Cultural Studies (FTMK)
Department of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology
PR Event Manager
European Solidarity Corps
International Volunteer Coordinator
Project Coordinator / PR Event Manager
Scholarships & Grants
(Declined due to overlapping contract as a Research Associate at the University of Mainz)
Exposé Scholarship
(Declined due to overlapping scholarship with the Gutenberg Graduate School)
Conferences & Workshops
Presentation: Beauty Practices and the Pursuit of Belonging Among Young Women in Post-Independence Kosovo.
Visual Research Conference. Society of Visual Anthropology.
Exhibition: Lost in the Light: Conversations through Shadows of Truths.
Conference of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), Un/commoning Anthropology.
Presentation: Embodying "Européennes". Beauty Practices and the Negotiation of Belonging.
19th Conference of the Commission for Gender Research and Queer Anthropology (DGEKW), Friction: Tensions, Divisions, and Productive Disruptions from a Gender Perspective.
Presentation: Refiguring Belonging. Aesthetic Practices and Identity.
Sociological Scientific Society of Serbia, New Divisions, Struggles, and Solidarities in Southeast Europe.
Presentation: Visual Dialogues as Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Production.
SIEF - International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Unwriting.
Presentation: Collaborative Visions: Reimagining Visual Representations Through Ethnography and Photography.
World Anthropological Union Congress, Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices and Power.
Presentation: Exploring the Use of Ethnographic Research in Photography: A New Paradigm for Unveiling Migrant Women's Stories.
EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), Doing and Undoing with Anthropology.
Presentation: Esplorare l'impiego della ricerca etnografica nella fotografia: Un nuovo paradigma narrativo.
SIAA - Società Italiana di Antropologia Applicata (Italian National Conference of Applied Anthropology).
Languages
- Albanian: Native language
- Italian: Second native language
- English: C2 - Cambridge Proficiency (CPE)
- German: C2 - Goethe-Zertifikat
Research Focus & Methods
Key Areas:
- Gender and Sexuality
- Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
- Visual Anthropology
Methodologies:
Interviews, participant observation, documentary method, photography.
