People

Profiles of research team members of ERC BOAR Project and Advisory Board members

People

Profiles of research team members of ERC BOAR Project and Advisory Board members

Team members

Research Associate Aníbal G. Arregui Aníbal is interested in tracing how the everyday engagements of human and wild boar in urban peripheries destabilize and repurpose conventional ecological schemes of interspecies relation. Read more

Principal Investigator Luděk Brož Luděk is fascinated by what he coined ‘veterinarization of society’ and the way it shapes joined human-porcine futures. His ambition is to contribute with the BOAR project to better understanding of the role of veterinary expertise in contemporary societies—in human-animal relations and beyond—thus helping to build the emerging field of veterinary anthropology. Read more

Research Associate Erica von Essen Erica is heading up the empirical opening on boar biopolitics in the institutional arena: Brussels. Erica has a strong interest in all things hunting and human-wildlife relations. Read more

Senior Researcher Thorsten Gieser Thorsten is an ecological anthropologist and field philosopher, exploring human-wildlife coexistence at the interface between anthropology/ethnology, phenomenology and ethology. Read more

Postdoctoral researcher Paul G. Keil Paul is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences. His research examines pig hunting practices in New South Wales, Australia, and the place and identity of feral pigs. Read more

Doctoral Researcher Laura Kuen Laura is interested in human-pig relations in Ukraine’s borderland with the European Union. Read more

Postdoctoral Researcher André Thiemann André is a social anthropologist exploring the political-economic transformations of former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe in the Capitalocene, through ethnographic research on the ecological relations between vibrant matter, plants, animals and people. Read more

Research Associate Garry Marvin Garry's project will be an ethnographic exploration of differently configured relationships between people and wild boar in south-west rural Spain. He will focus on interested parties such as landowners, farmers with free-range Black Iberian pigs, hunters, wildlife managers, private and government vets, and wild boar themselves. Read more

Postdoctoral Researcher Kieran O'Mahony Kieran is interested in (feral) rewilding, biosecurity and changing wild boar geographies. Read more

Postdoctoral Researcher Marianna Szczygielska Marianna is interested in science and technology studies, and explores the history of animal health research and intervention in Poland and Germany (former Prussia). Read more

Research Associate Virginie Vaté Virginie will ethnographically document human-boar relations in northeastern France and analyze how various definitions of the boar illustrate the diversity of perspectives on what human-animal relations should be like. Read more

Project Manager Mária Málková Mária's role in the project is to assist the team with the EU grant guidelines and rules, maintaining the schedule and all project documentation. Read more

Project Manager Adéla Ottová Adéla is the team member who knows the rules and follows the guidelines, oversees schedules and keeps people to deadlines, and overall works to supervise the implementation of BOAR project design. She believes that management is essentially about ‘having things done’. Read more

Advisory board members

Fondazione Edmund Mach Dr Francesca Cagnacci A renowned behavioural and conservation ecologist and initiator and coordinator of the "Euromammals/Euroboar" research consortium for the study of ungulate movement and distribution under climatic and human-impact.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Professor Jane Desmond A social anthropologist with unique experience in the ethnographic study of veterinarians and in the incorporation of anthropology into veterinary education, and a Founding Editor, "Animal Lives" Book Series, University of Chicago Press.

National Veterinary Institute, Sweden Professor Dolores Gavier-Widén Internationally recognized veterinary pathologist focusing on wildlife health surveillance who served as the Chair of the COST Action ASF-STOP and president of the Wildlife Disease Association.

French National Centre for Scientific Research Professor Fréderic Keck One of the leading figures of emerging veterinary anthropology who conducted important studies of zoonosis and connected biosecurity regimes in China.

Open University Professor John Law A leading science studies scholar who researched, among other aspects of human animal relations, veterinary response to foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks.

University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Professor James A. Serpell A prominent scholar of human animal relations with strong expertise in ethics and animal welfare.