Research Interests

Political Anthropology
Border Regimes, Migration and Mobility
Feminist Anthropology and Intersectionality
Affect and Emotion
Death, Disappearances and Mourning
Existential and phenomenological anthropology
Ethnography and Storytelling

Huttunen, L. and G. Perl (eds.). 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. Berghahn Books.

For a discussion about the book with Laura Huttunen, Yadong Li and myself, listen to this podcast, featured by New Books Network.

Hildebrand, S., G. Perl, J. Rehsmann and V. Siegl 2018. Hope. Transl. by A. Cox. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel.

G. Perl in preparation. The Affective Afterlife. Tracing Death during Migration across the Spanish-Moroccan Sea.

Completed Research Projects

2022–2023. Integration und Teilhabe: Perspektiven von Geflüchteten, ehrenamtlich Engagierten und hauptamtlich Tätigen in Trier und Umgebung. [funded by Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend] → Project Website

2021. Public Anthropology Projekt: “Confronting Hostile Terrains: Border Regimes and their Global Impact.” Mit Darcy Alexandra. [funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF, der Burgergemeinde Bern, Fund for the promotion of young researchers, Univ. of Bern, Diversity Initiative Grant, Faculty of Humanities, Univ. of Bern] https://www.kornhausforum.ch/event/confronting-hostile-terrains https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/194661

2021. “Transnational inheritance: Family succession and social reproduction between France and Morocco”[funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF] https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/203263

2017–2018. “The shipwreck of Rota. Moralities of violent death in the Spanish-Moroccan borderlands.” [funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF] https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/175228

2014–2017. Ph. D. student in the Projekt: “Intimate Uncertainties. Precarious life and moral economy across European borders” (PI: Sabine Strasser). [funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation SNF] https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/149368