Janina Kehr

Janina Kehr is a Visiting Research Fellow at HUMA and a Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. She studied ethnology and political science at the University of Göttingen and the University of California Santa Cruz. In 2012 she obtained her doctorate with a co-tutelle de thèse at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris and the Humboldt University Berlin. Between 2011 and 2017 she was a doctoral assistant and postdoctoral researcher in the interdisciplinary context of medical humanities at the University of Zurich. Before she came to Vienna, she researched and taught between 2017 and 2020 as an SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, working on austerity medicine at the intersection of debt economies, government bureaucracy, clinical practices and everyday experiences in Spain. She works and publishes on the politics, colonial hauntings, moral economies and environmental side-effects of biomedicine and public health.