Alexander Chenchenko (MA)

 

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Alexander Chenchenko studied Ethnology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 2015 to 2018. After his bachelor degree, he moved to Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, where he completed the master programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology from 2019 to 2022. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University. Since November 2022, he has been working as a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk - Bischöfliche Studienförderung in the project „Religion als Infrastruktur. Ethnographische Studie zu religiösen Dynamiken in Kafa (Äthiopien)“.

 

Research interests

ethnology of religion, infrastructure, conversion, visual anthropology

 

Publications:

Articles in Journals

2024 „Friedrich Julius Bieber, Reisen nach Äthiopien, Tagebücher 1904, 1905, 1909, ed. Sayuri Yoshida“, Aethiopica International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies 27: 327-330.

2023 „Religion, Mission, and Development. Conceptualising the Catholic Church as a Religious Infrastructure in Kafa (Ethiopia)“. Journal for Religion and Development 2 (1): 285–306.

2022 „Tagungsbericht: Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Entwicklungspolitik und Humanitäre Hilfe der DeGEval 2021: Alles, was Recht ist: menschenrechtsbasierte Ansätze in Evaluation und Evaluation von Menschenrechten", Zeitschrift für Evaluationen 21 (1): 127-132.

2022 „Aesthetics and musical-religious experience within the (Catholic) Holy Mass", Sights International Student Journal of Anthropology 1: 50-55.

2020 „Zahlen, Daten, Fakten: Monitoring in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Humanitären Hilfe. Zwischen Anspruch und Realität", Zeitschrift für Evaluationen 19 (2): 364-371.

 

Films

2025 „The Catholic Martyrs of Kafa“ (Screenings: ICES International Conference of Ethiopian Studies 22, Hawassa, Ethiopia).

2021 „Web of Thoughts“ (Screenings: GIEFF German International Ethnographic Film Festival Göttingen).

2019 „Der Prinz der Schuhe“ (Screenings: Ethnofest Ethnographic Film Festival Athens 2020/ III. Sommersymposium des Frobenius Instituts Frankfurt am Main 2021).