Jonas Tinius - about - JONAS TINIUS

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 in Germany. In 2013, he co-founded (with Dr 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 its longest running research network. 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 Prof Roger Sansi) the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). 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 Free University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He 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. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr (with Alexander Wewerka, Alexander Verlag, 2020); and Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Colonial (with Margareta von Oswald, Leuven University Press, 2020).