Rosa Dümlein

I am a PhD student at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. My academic background is in Social and Cultural Anthropology, with a Master’s degree from the Freie University of Berlin. My master’s thesis focused on forest dieback in the Frankenwald region of Germany. It examined the evolving relationship between humans and trees in this context.

My current PhD project focuses on food crops in peri-urban Vanuatu.
The research explores urban agricultural practices, laboratory-based cultivation methods and gardening as sites for negotiating multi-species relationships, shared habitability and potential futures for both humans and plants. A key aspect of my work is to understand how these practices create human and more-than-human relationships and contribute to food security.

My research interests include environmental anthropology, multispecies theory, the social anthropology of science and technology, plant ethnography, food anthropology and visual anthropology.