Lotte Meinert

Professor

Lotte Meinert

Professor

School of Culture and Society - Department of Anthropology

Type of address: Postal address.

Moesgård Allé 20

4236, 115

8270

Højbjerg

Denmark

Email: lotte.meinert@cas.au.dk

Mobile: +4524262202

Phone: +45162118

Cell: + 45 24 26 22 02.
Born: 29.06.1968. Civic status: Married, three sons (1995, 1998, 2005) Maternity leave 18 months.

Education

PhD at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen 2001
MA at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University 1995

Appointments

2012- present	Professor MSO, Aarhus University
2013-2015	Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins University
Aug 2014-Dec 2014	Guest Professor, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
2006-2012	Associate Professor, Aarhus University 2006-2012
2003-2006	Assistant Professor, Aarhus University 2003-2006
2002	Team leader. Study on malaria medicine in Uganda, USAID
1997-2001	PhD student Copenhagen University

Research focus

Human Security, Post-Conflict, Development, Medical anthropology, Education, HIV/AIDS, East Africa. Meinert has conducted anthropological fieldwork and worked in various parts of Uganda for a total of more than 7 years. She has also done shorter periods of fieldwork in Indonesia and Kenya.

Academic Awards

2012	Nominated by Aarhus University for the Danish Elite Researcher Prize.
2010	Nominated by the Faculty of Arts, AU for the Danish Elite Researcher Prize.

Research projects and leadership

2015	Project leader of: Governing Transition in Northern Uganda: Trust and Land. TrustLand http://trustland.me. 10 mio. Kr. Research grant from The Consultative Research Committee for Development Research in Denmark (FFU).
2012-2016	Project leader (with Jens Seeberg) of EPICENTER: Center for Cultural Epidemics. http://epicenter.au.dk. 5.5 mio. Kr. Research grant from Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF).
2008-2012	Project leader of ENRECA: Changing Human Security: Recovery from Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda. https://sites.google.com/site/enrecagulu/. Enhancement of Research Capacity grant from The Consultative Research Committee for Development Research in Denmark (FFU) 9.9. mill. kr.
2011-2014	Senior researcher: Death, Materiality and Time. A collective research project. Sapere Aude grant to Prof. Rane Willerslev from FKK.
2009	Grant from AUFF for Guest Professor Cheryl Mattingly (University of Southern California) to visit Aarhus University for 4 months.
2008-2011	Senior researcher: Innovative strategies among marginalised youth: A collective research project including Brazil, Denmark, Georgia and Uganda. Grant from FKK.
2007-2008	Project leader: Recovery from Armed Conflict in Northern Uganda: Planning for Human Security. Initiative grant from FFU.
2006-2008	Researcher: Fee or Free? The social aspects of ARV medicine. The TORCH project: Part of grant from FFU.
2005	Principal Investigator: Malaria and medicine in primary schools in Uganda. Part of grant from FFU and the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory
2004	Researcher: Schooling, health, migration, and marginalisation. The TORCH project: Part of grant from FFU.
2002	Co-Researcher: Malaria and medicine in primary schools in Kenya. Funded by Welcome Trust and World Bank (co-researcher)
1997-2001	Junior researcher: Health and Education among Children in Uganda (PhD research) Funded by FFU.

Supervision and committee work

2003-present	Supervisor of 56 graduate students doing field research, writing field reports or masters theses. (Finalised: 36 field reports, 33 Kandidat Specialer, 4 magisterspecialer, 6 theses currently in process)
2007-present	Main Supervisor of 10 PhD students, co-supervisor of 6 PhD students.
2011-present	Supervisor of 7 post doc researchers
2006-present	Head of evaluation committees of 5 PhD theses at Aarhus University.
2006-present	Member of evaluation committees of 9 Phd Theses: 5 at University of
2005-2008	External Examiner at the Department of anthropology of education, DPU.
2009	External examiner at the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory, LIFE, KU.
2009-2014	Head of 5 evaluation committees of Assistant /Associate Professorships at the Department of Culture and Society, AU.
2013 & 2016	Expert panel member of the Research Council of Norway, Humanities and Social Sciences.

International Research Networks

The TrustLand project includes researchers from Gulu University Uganda, AU, KU and affiliated researchers from Boston University, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University.

EPICENTER is a cross-disciplinary center at AU and collaborates with SDU, KU, Steno Center for Health Promotion, KORA, Steno Museum AU, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; University of Cambridge; University of Southern California, Gulu University and Kathmandu University.

The ENRECA GU project included researchers from Gulu University Uganda, AU, KU, SDU and collaborated with: Tufts University, The Feinstein Centre, Cologne University, Manchester University.

The Death Materiality and Time Project involves researchers from AU, NIAS, KU, Oslo University, Center for Ethnography - California Irvine, Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, Rutgers University, James Cook University.

Editing boards and reviews

Guest editor of Special issue of Ethnos with Rane Willerslev
Guest editor of Special issue of Ethnos with Lone Grøn
Guest editor with Bruce Kapferer of Social Analysis.
Guest editor with Karen Valentin of Anthropology in Action.
Guest editor of Tidsskrift for Antropologi.
Member of the editing board of the journal Tidsskrift for Forskning i Sygdom og Samfund
Member of the editing board of the journal Jordens Folk
Reviewer of articles in: Current Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Ethnos, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Book reviewer for Manchester University Press and Duke University Press.

Publications

Sharing Land, Sharing Faith: Ground ethics among Missionaries and Ik in Uganda. / Meinert, Lotte.
In: Ethnoscripts, 2023.