Biography
Dr Sandro Simon is a multimodal anthropologist based at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and affiliated with the Centre for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), the CRC Future Rural Africa and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne. His academic stations include the universities of Freiburg i. Br. (DE), Basel (CH), Groningen (NL), Minnesota (USA) and Cologne (DE) and he has been part of the DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group DELTA. He has also worked for NGOs in Switzerland and Ecuador. Sandro’s research has explored moral economies and food systems, mobilities, infrastructures, and multispecies relations across wet and dry environments in west-, east-, southern- and central Africa, as well as southern Europe.
He works at the intersections of environmental and economic anthropology, the anthropology of work and of migration, legal anthropology, science and technology studies, poststructuralism and phenomenology. He does so multimodally, combining different methods and forms of representation, such as film, sound, photography, academic text, and creative non-fiction.