Ruth Mandel
University College London
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Professor of Anhropology
Department of Anthropology
Professor Ruth Mandel (University College London) received her PhD from the University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology. Her early work focused on migration between Turkey, Greece, and Germany, and her prize-winning book, Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish challenges to citizenship and belonging in Germany (Duke University Press) was based on this research. Her subsequent research in Kazakhstan focused on media and development, and migration; numerous articles and the book Markets and Moralities: Ethnographies of postsocialism emerged from this research. Mandel has collaborated with colleagues in Norway, Toronto, and the UK on the project Language, Legacy and Landey, highlighting diasporic Afghan poetry, spearheaded by Dr. Rachel Lehr.
Her current ongoing research, collaborating with Rachel Lehr, addresses Holocaust memory and commemoration in Europe, focusing on artist Gunter Demnig’s Stolperstein project. She has given many lectures about the Stolperstein research both in academic settings as well as to public groups, such as synagogues and refugee groups. They are currently writing a book about this project.
She has been Guest Professor at the Graduate Institute Geneva, University of Vienna, and the University of Minnesota.
At University College London, where she has taught since the 1990s, she has served as Vice-Dean International.
Professor Mandel is the recipient of numerous honors. She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, a Kennan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C., has received numerous grants including Fulbright, DAAD, Economic and Social Research Council, Arts and Humanities Research Council, among others.