Research focus
- Cultural memory, especially in the former Yugoslavia
- Violence and power relations
- Monuments and museums (the visual)
- Belonging and identity
- Airports
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Einführungsveranstaltung für alle Studienanfänger*innen im MA Kulturanthropologie
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MA HS. Semantiken und Gegennarrative kulturanthropologischer Forschung: Erinnerungsforschung: Kulturelle Narrative, Identität und Repräsentation
Instructor: Dr. Taylor Andrew McConnell -
Pr. Praktikum (180h) (KAEE)
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Ü. Berufliche Perspektiven
Instructor: Dr. Taylor Andrew McConnell
WiSe 2024/25
Biography
Taylor McConnell is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Film, Theatre, Media and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His doctoral thesis in sociology at the University of Edinburgh addressed the intersection of memory, violence, power and identity in the context of the 1991–1995 Croatian War of Independence/‘Homeland War’ and its aftermath. He is currently working on a monograph entitled Memory abuse: Historical violence and contemporary identity politics in the former Yugoslavia, to be completed in 2024.
Research projects
„Memory Abuse: Historical Violence and Contemporary Identity Politics in the former Yugoslavia“, current book project (2023–2024)
„Još Hrvatska ni propala [Still Croatia Has Not Fallen]: Examining the Public Face of Memory in Croatia“, Doctoral Thesis, University of Edinburgh (2020)
Interactive map of Croatian monuments, 2016–2019 (regularly updated)