Contact
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universitätsstraße 7
Wien
1010
Austria
ABOUT
Melanie Sindelar is a social and cultural anthropologist with research interests in contemporary art, global art markets, the Gulf and Indian Ocean countries. She has received her Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Vienna with distinction and her MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Ethnography
Nationalism
Gulf Studies
Cultural Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
UAE
Arabian Peninsula
Specialties
Arab Gulf
Nationalism
Contemporary Art
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
French (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2019
| Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
| University of Vienna
MSci
| 2013
| Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
| University of Oxford
BA
| 2011
| Institute of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeolog
| University of Vienna
Abstracts
Contemporary art production and the ambivalence of nation-building in the United Arab Emirates
Past-Present-Future: Time-Based Artistic Practices from the Gulf
