Academic Career
Corinna Di Stefano has been a doctoral candidate in the department of Social and Cultural Anthropology since winter term 2014/2015 and was a member of the Ph.D. program “Europe in the Globalized World” within the Excellence Cluster “Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” at Constance until 2017. Following her graduate degree in Area Studies of Latin America at the Universities of Cologne and Bonn and a Spanish master’s degree in specialized translation (ISTRAD/Univ. de Córdoba), she worked as an academic staff member in the Research Network for Latin America Ethnicity, Citizenship, Belonging and as a research assistant in the department for Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne. In her dissertation, she examines the extracontinental borders of the EU in the Eastern Caribbean with a focus on the so-called “EU outermost regions” and French overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique. During her research stays of a combined duration of (?) eleven months between 2015 and 2018, she was especially interested in the various forms of (non-)appearance of the EU border in the Caribbean and the interrelations of the border in the contexts of migration, health mobility, cruise ship tourism, and hurricane catastrophes, which are reflected in the empirical chapters of her dissertation.
Since April of 2020, Corinna Di Stefano has worked at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the research project “Urban Border Spaces,” financed by the German Research Foundation. Within this project, her focus is on migrants’ access to health services in Frankfurt am Main and Bilbao, Spain.
Interests
- Critical border and migration research, mobility studies
- Social categorization and intersectionality (esp. gender/ethnicity)
- Medical anthropology with a focus on midwives, pregnancy, and birth
- Regional foci: EU outermost regions, West Caribbean, and the Lesser Antilles, Spain
Courses
Summer 2018:
B.A. Seminar | Ethnology and Tourism
Summer 2019:
B.A. Seminar | Midwifery in Transition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Birth and Birth Assistance (with Prof. Kirsten Mahlke)
Summer 2021:
Session in the workshop "Dependency, Vulnerability and Embodied Fieldwork", Univ. Bonn |Intersectional Identities and Fieldwork. (Re)Positioning the Researcher (with Carolin Hirsch)