Thiago Pinto Barbosa, M.A.

Thiago Pinto Barbosa is a research associate and lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and The Ethnographic Collection. Thiago studied social sciences in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Berlin, and Potsdam. Situated at the intersection of science and technology studies and postcolonial critique, Thiago’s doctoral research has dealt with the production and circulation of anthropological knowledge on human difference in Germany and India and the entanglement of race, caste and ethnicity. Thiago’s research interests also include difference and categorization, inequality, social justice, political ecology, (post-)colonialism, and history of anthropology. Prior to working in Göttingen, Thiago has taught anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Bayreuth, besides holding research positions at ZMO Berlin,Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Thiago is also a member of the research group “Anthropology of Global Inequalities” in Bayreuth.