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Dani Kranz, PhD | Professor, El Colegio de Mexico
Anthropology, History, Small Jewish Communities, Social Psychology, Sociology
Europe, Israel/Palestine
Dani Kranz is the incumbent DAAD Humboldt chair at Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, and an applied anthropologist and director of Two Foxes Consulting, Germany and Israel. Trained in anthropology, social psychology, history, cultural studies and Judaic studies, her thematic expertise covers migration, integration, ethnicity, law, state/stateliness, political life, organisations, as well as memory cultures and politics. She has been conducting long-term fieldwork in Europe and the Middle East, and published on Jews and Israelis in Germany, and on non-Jewish migrants from the Global North in Israel. Together with Sarah M. Ross, HMTM Hanover, Germany, she is conducting "Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational and academic levels in post-1945 Europe." She headed "The Immigration of Israeli Jews to Germany since 1990" with Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew U, Israel, and Heinz Sünker, U Wuppertal, Germany; the resulting book "A Double Burden" was published in 2022 by SUNY. In her applied work, she is a consultant to the high commissioner of the German government for Jewish life and in the fight against antisemitism, member of the council for migration (Rat für Migration) and a range of other foundations, museums, and NGOs.
- Rebhun, Uzi; Kranz, Dani; Sünker, Heinz, 2022: A Double Burden? The Migration of Israeli Jews to Germany since 1990, SUNY Press
- Kranz, Dani, 2023: Empirie, Agency und Befremdlichkeiten in der Sozialforschung, in Migration und Soziale Arbeit, 2: 82-88
- Kranz, Dani, 2022: The Quest for Jewish Anthropology in Germany post-1945, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2022.2142771
- Knowledge Architectures: Mapping structures of Jewish heritagization processes on communal, organizational and academic levels in post-1945 Europe, co-applicant Sarah Ross, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), 2022-2025