{"id":2897,"date":"2024-11-19T15:24:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:15:00","slug":"dr-sarah-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni-freiburg.de\/frias\/dr-sarah-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Sarah May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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European Ethnology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2021 – September 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRIAS Junior Fellow
October 2021 \u2013 July 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curriculum Vitae<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sarah May is a cultural anthropologist. Based on ethnographic research she realizes cultural analyses within economic and political fields. Her focus lies on the study of material culture in its everyday dimension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her habilitation project, Sarah May explores the collaborative field of “wood + crafts” as a dispositif of an ecological-economic transformation process. Facing the mechanization and digitalization in the woodworking crafts, the increasing public interest in the renewable material wood, related innovations and growing political support, she aims to understand practices, knowledge and interpretations of the actors on a micro level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the sub-project “Going digital in the woodworking crafts<\/a>” she was a Junior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in 2021\/22. From 2021 to 2024 she leads the project “Bioeconomy as Cultural Transformation<\/a>“, funded by the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Foundation, and in 2022\/23 a research project with BA-students on Bioeconomy an Agriculture<\/a>, funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah May works at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at University of Freiburg. She studied cultural anthropology, rhetoric, italianistics and media studies at the Universities of T\u00fcbingen, Pisa and Perugia. In 2015, she did her doctorate in cultural anthropology at University of T\u00fcbingen with an ethnographic research on the local implementation of EU regulations in the area of culinary heritage\/cultural property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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