Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance
Post-Doc, Expert Panels
About
Thamar Klein studied Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Educational Science and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. From 2000 to 2006 she worked as research fellow and leading junior scientist at the University of Cologne, where she received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Thamar Klein subsequently joined the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle/Saale from 2006 to 2009 as Postdoctoral Research Fellow and as of January 2009 simultaneously as Research Associate at the Somatechnics Research Centre, Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. In 2010 she joined the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance in Berlin, Germany.
Additionally she serves on the editorial board of Liminalis and the advisory board of Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide. Thamar Klein has been elected vice-chair of the Work Group Anthropological Gender Studies and the Work Group Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association.

