Department Affiliations
Specialties
- Visual Cultural Studies
- Anthropology of Art
- Visual Anthropology
- Anthropology of Media
- Migration Studies
- Ritual Theory
- Berlin, Germany, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Educational Background
- Habilitation: Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
- Doctorate: Anthropology, Art History and Social Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany.
- State Exams: Art Education, Rhineland College of Education, Cologne, Germany.
Publications
- Weightless Monuments. Stories of Labor Migration to Germany as Materialized in the Exhibit Projekt Migration: Wolbert, Barbara, Philippe Despoix and Christine Bernier, Musée d’ art contemporains de Montréal, Arts de mémoire. Matérieaux, médias, mythologie. Colloque, 161-182, 2007.
- Haunted Art in Weimar: Visiting an Art Exhibition in Europe's Cultural Capital. Wolbert, Barbara, Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto, Berghahn Books, Author, 2006.
- Multicultural Germany: Art, Performance, and Media: Wolbert, Barbara, Deniz Göktürk, New German Critique 92, 2004.
- The Short Century of Europe: African Art in German Exhibitions.: Wolbert, Barbara, Author.
- The Visual Production of Locality. Turkish Family Pictures, Migration, and the Creation of Virtual: Wolbert, Barbara, Visual Anthropology Review, 17 21-35, 2001.
- The Anthropologist as Photographer. The Visual Construction of Ethnographic Authority. Wolbert, Barbara, Author, 2000.
- Der getötete Paß. Arbeitsmigration und Rückkehr in die Türkei. Eine ethnologische Studie.. Wolbert, Barbara, Akademie Verlag, Author, 1995.
- Migrationsbewältigung. Orientierungen und Strategien. Biographisch-interpretative Fallstudien über die 'Heirats-Migration' dreier Türkinnen.. Wolbert, Barbara, Edition Herodot, Author, 1984.
Courses Taught
- GER 3501 (cross-listed with Anthropology): “Contemporary Germany: Art, Politics and Diversity”
Alternative Output Formats