Migrants, Thinkers, Storytellers

About Jonathan. KurzwellyLuis Escobedo

Jonatan Kurzwelly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology University of Göttingen. While working on this book he held a postdoctoral fellowship in anthropology at the University of the Free State where he is currently affiliated as a research fellow. His research and writing explore different aspects of personal and social identities. Jonatan is also interested in the study of nationalism sensory and bodily perception experimental and collaborative research methods and the philosophy of social sciences. He is a nomadic academic migrant who defines himself as having two citizenships and no nationality. Luis Escobedo is a postdoctoral researcher at the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice University of the Free State. Formerly a visiting lecturer at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico he is currently co-conducting fieldwork in Transylvania on the persisting class/ethnicity correlation in Roma/non-Roma relations in Romania. In his next project he will follow the footprints made by a brave migrant across Central and North America. A citizen of Peru and resident of Romania Luis has worked and studied in Austria Germany Mexico Poland South Africa and the United States over the past 20 years.