DIMA

A Doctorate in the Museum - the Local and Global Dimensions of Objects in Anthropological Museums in Baden- Württemberg Today”

01/10/2023 to 01/09/2026

Since October 2023 the PhD program ‘A Doctorate in the Museum: The Local and Global Dimensions of Objects in Anthropological Museums in Baden-Württemberg Today’ (DIMA), has been running. DIMA is an innovative scholarship program for doctoral studies in the research field of ‘Museums and Collections’. The program funds three scholarships for research into the ethnographic collections of the University of Tübingen and/or the Linden-Museum Stuttgart. The three funded doctoral projects are anchored within the disciplines of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical and Cultural Anthropology, and History. The program is funded jointly by the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts of Baden-Württemberg, the Linden-Museum Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen and provides three scholarships running for three years from October 2023 to September 2026.

The program is directed by:
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Alex, Asien Orient Institut, Universität Tübingen, Gabriele.Alex@uni-tuebingen.de and
Prof. Inés de Castro, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, decastro@lindenmuseum.de

Participating academics in the program are:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Grewe, University of Tübingen
Markus Himmelsbach, Linden Museum, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Michi Knecht, University Bremen
Dr. Ulrich Menter, Linden Museum, Stuttgart
Dr. Laura Osario Sunnucks Linden Museum, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Thomas Thiemeyer, University of Tübingen

The program ‘A Doctorate in the Museum: The Local and Global Dimensions of Objects in Anthropological Museums in Baden-Württemberg Today’ (DIMA) is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments