Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sanderien Verstappen

Sanderien Verstappen is Assistant Professor with tenure track in Social and Cultural Anthropology focusing on Visual Anthropology at the University of Vienna, where she is also the founding director of the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab. In the area of visual anthropology, her research and teaching focuses on:

  • Filmmaking as a research method and as a mode of academic publishing
  • Ethnographic audience research, including film elicitation
  • The politics of (self)representation
  • Theory of visual and multimodal anthropology


Website at the Department of Anthropology: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/en/department/people/professorinnen/verstappen-sanderien/ 


Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab: https://vval.univie.ac.at