Willemijn De Jong

Willemijn de Jong is a researcher and has taught anthropology as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich. She has also taught at the Universities of Bern and Vienna. She was awarded grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation for national and international research projects she has headed. In recent years she has worked on textiles, art, fashion and globalization, and she was a guest curator at the Museum der Kulturen...See more

Willemijn de Jong is a researcher and has taught anthropology as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich. She has also taught at the Universities of Bern and Vienna. She was awarded grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation for national and international research projects she has headed. In recent years she has worked on textiles, art, fashion and globalization, and she was a guest curator at the Museum der Kulturen Basel. She has published widely in German, and her publications in English include "Rice Rituals, Kinship Identities and Ethnicity in Central Flores" in 'Food and Kinship in Southeast Asia' (2007), and "Red Threads in Flores" in 'The Common Thread: The Warp and Weft of Thinking' (2016). She recently co-edited the publication to the exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel, both with the title 'Striking Patterns: Global Traces in Local Ikat Fashion' (2016), and 'Urban Dreams: Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso' (2018). See less