Dr. Christiane Falck

Christiane Falck is one of our postdoctoral researchers and lecturers. Her regional focus is Oceania, particularly Papua New Guinea and the Sepik River region. Christiane completed her PhD at James Cook University (Australia) and Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2016 with the project “Calling the Dead – Spirits, Mobile Phones and the Talk of God in a Sepik River Community (Papua New Guinea)”. In her PhD project, she investigated religious and technological change and the (re-) appropriation of cultural elements. Her dissertation won the 'Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence' (James Cook University, Australia) and the 'Hank Nelson Prize' (Australian National University). Christiane is also interested in concepts of the body and person, gender, cosmology and ontology, as well as human-environment-relations. Her postdoctoral research project, ”Encountering Nature in the Anthropocene” (working title), aims to investigate how religious and ecological change impacts on a society whose cosmology is based on an intimate relationship between humans and their environment.