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Jonas Leonhard Tinius studied British and American Literature, Language and Culture as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Münster, and Cambridge (UK). He completed his PhD on the negotiation of identity, migration, and society in German theatre in 2016 at the Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, funded by William Wyse and Kurt Hahn Scholarships of the University of Cambridge (UK). During his research, he was a fellow at the international archive and research centre of the theatre studies collection on Manor Wahn, Institute for Media Culture and Theatre at the University of Cologne (GER). In 2013, he co-founded (with Clare Foster) the Mellon/Newton Foundation-funded Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), which has become the longest running research network there. From 2016-2020, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) at the Institute of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, funded as part of Sharon Macdonald's Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. As part of his research, he collaborated with artists and curators of art spaces and galleries in Berlin (among them SAVVY Contemporary, the ifa-gallery and the Wedding district gallery) to study and think about curatorial practices as forms of troubling of national, universal, and hegemonic narratives, especially against the backdrop of major museum transformations such as the Humboldt Forum. In 2017, he co-founded (with Roger Sansi) the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), which he convened until 2020. He is research coordinator and co-founder of the Post-Heimat Network on migrant theatre and art, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Cultural Foundation) and founding member of the art, research, and theatre collective Ruhrorter. He has taught courses on theatre, art, colonial legacies, and curating at the Universities of Cambridge (UK), Hildesheim (GER), Bologna (IT), and the FU & HU Berlin (GER), among others, and supervises BA & MA theses in art history, anthropology, and social science. He has published in French, German, and English and is editor of Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (with Alex Flynn, Palgrave 2015, paper back 2018); Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage (with colleagues from CARMAH. Berlin, 2018); Der Fremde Blick. Die Seiten des Roberto Ciulli (with Alexander Wewerka, Alexander Verlag, May 2020); Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Colonial (with Margareta von Oswald, Leuven University Press, May 2020).

Jonas Leonhard Tinius studierte Literaturwissenschaften, British und American Studies, sowie Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie an den Universitäten Duisburg-Essen, Münster und Cambridge (UK). Er wurde 2016 als William Wyse und Kurt Hahn Scholar am King’s College der University of Cambridge mit einer Studie über die Verhandlung von Identität, Migration und Gesellschaft im deutschen Stadttheater promoviert. Im Rahmen seiner Forschung war er u.a. Fellow am internationalen Dokumentations- und Forschungszentrum der Theaterwissenschaftlichen Sammlung auf Schloss Wahn, Institut für Medienkultur und Theater der Universität zu Köln. 2013 gründete er am Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) das Mellon-Newton Stiftung finanzierte Interdisciplinary Performance Network, welches er mit Dr. Clare Foster bis 2016 leitete und heute das am längsten laufende Research Seminar dort ist. Zwischen 2016 und 2020 war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (postdoctoral research fellow) des Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, gefördert durch Sharon Macdonalds Alexander von Humboldt Professur. Dort untersuchte er kollaborativ und im Dialog mit KünstlerInnen und KuratorInnen verschiedener Berliner Galerien und Kunsträumen Formen des kuratorischen Querdenkens im Kontext ethnologischer Museumsverwandlungen, insbesondere des Humboldt Forums. 2017 gründete er mit Prof. Roger Sansi das Anthropology and the Arts Netzwerk der European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), welches er bis Ende 2019 koordiniert. Er ist Mitbegründer des von der Kulturstiftung des Bundes geförderten Kunst- und Theaternetzwerkes Post-Heimat und Gründungsmitglied des forschenden Kunst- und Theaterkollektivs Ruhrorter. Er hat u.a. an den Universitäten Cambridge (UK), Hildesheim, Bologna (IT), sowie der FU und HU unterrichtet und betreut BA & MA arbeiten in der Europäischen Ethnologie, Sozialwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte. Er ist Herausgeber von Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (mit Alex Flynn, Palgrave 2015; Paperback 2018); Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage (CARMAH Berlin, 2018); Der Fremde Blick. Die Seiten des Roberto Ciulli (mit Alexander Wewerka, Alexander Verlag, May 2020); Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Colonial (mit Margareta von Oswald, Leuven University Press, Mai 2020).