Marieke Brandt is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Her research focuses on tribalism, tribal genealogy and history, and tribe-state relations in Southwest Arabia. She was PhD fellow of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, DAAD fellow in Sana’a, Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow of the European Commission, and project leader of the New Frontiers Groups Programme (NFG) project “Deciphering Local Power Politics in Northern Yemen” funded by the Austrian National Foundation for Research, Technology and Development. She is the author of award-winning Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict (Hurst/OUP 2017).
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Conflict Resolution
Ethnography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Security Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Yemen
Specialties
Tribalism
Yemen
Tribal Genealogy And History
Languages
English (fluent)
Arabic (fluent)
German (native)
Education
PhD
| 2004
| Cultural Studies
| Humboldt University Berlin
