Judith Bovensiepen
Prof. Dr.Corresponding Member of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences in Austria since 2026
- Institute for Social Anthropology of the OAW, Director
- Direktorin des Instituts für Sozialanthropologie
- Honorarprofessorin Universität Wien
office.bovensiepen(at)oeaw.ac.at
Orcid-ID:
0000-0002-6092-7874
Research Areas:
- Sociology
- Social anthropology
Profile:
Publications:
Selected Memberships:
- DGSKA (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie)
- EASA (The European Association of Social Anthropologists)
- RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute)
- EuroSEAS (The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies)
Selected Prizes:
- European Research Council (ERC) - Consolidator Grant
- The Philip Leverhulme Prize
- The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Future Research Leaders grant
- Nadel Essay Prize
- Radcliffe–Brown Trust Fund/ Sutasoma Award
Selected Publications:
- Bovensiepen, Judith. 2015. The Land of Gold: Post-Conflict Recovery and Cultural Revival in Independent Timor-Leste. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Bovensiepen, Judith and Pelkmans, Mathijs. 2020. Wilful Blindness. Special issue of Critique of Anthropology 40(4).
- Bovensiepen, Judith. 2024. Fiat speech, fiat infrastructure: Anticipation as transformative action in the emerging oil economy of Timor-Leste. American Ethnologist 51 (2): 258-269.
- Bovensiepen, Judith. 2021. Can oil speak? Difference and ambivalence in Timor-Leste’s oil infrastructure development. Anthropological Quarterly 94 (1): 625-651.
- Bovensiepen, Judith and Delgado Rosa, F. 2016. Transformations of the Sacred in East Timor. Comparative Studies in Society and History 58 (3): 1-30.