Judith Beyer

Judith Beyer was part of the editorial collective from 2013 until 2022. She began her work for Allegra Lab as Reviews and Publications Editor and continued as part of a team that explored multimodality across multiple media and towards a more engaged public anthropology. Judith is Full Professor of Social and Political Anthropology at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has carried out long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Southeast Asia (Myanmar) and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan). Currently she conducts multi-sited fieldwork in Europe with expert activists. Her thematic interests are statelessness and the state, we-formation and community, ethno-religious minorities, neo-traditionalization and legal pluralism. Theoretically, she draws on political theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, existential anthropology, and ethnomethodology. She is also an applied anthropologist and serves as an expert in asylum cases in the UK and Europe.

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