Margrit E. Kaufmann Dr. phil

Dr. Margrit E. Kaufmann is Senior Researcher and Lecturer for Cultural Studies and Ethnology at the Institute for Ethnology and Cultural Studies (IfEK) and at the Bremen Institute for Cultural Research. She is the scientific expert for diversity at the University of Bremen and advises and accompanies diversity processes at the University of Bremen and outside of it.

Since 1992 she has been working in the context of ethnologically sound cultural studies at the University of Bremen and this in various positions, first as a research assistant, later as a proportion and substitute professor, since 2009 as a scientific expert for diversity for the university management and since 2011 with the status of Bremen Senior Researcher. She is the spokesperson for the association of the Bremen Institute for Cultural Research which was initiated in 2018.

She is a trained teacher and has many years of practical experience working at various school levels and acquiring a second language in Switzerland, teaching at universities and colleges, also internationally, and in adult education. These teaching and practical experiences flow into the central projects on research-based learning and dealing with diversity at the University of Bremen.

She studied ethnology, folklore and social and economic history at the University of Zurich with a Lic. Phil. closed. She has carried out research projects in southern Carinthia, central Bhutan, eastern Nepal, and northern Germany. At the University of Bremen, she did her doctorate in cultural studies with an intersectional research project (“On the interweaving of sexism and racism - using the example of the social and political significance of childbirth”). From an intersectional perspective, she continues to develop Critical Diversity Studies through research and teaching.