Profile

Professional career

• 09/2018 - 07/2019
  Postdoctoral research fellow with the ERC project GLOBHEALTH at the Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale et Société (cermes3), Paris
• 04/2018 - 09/2018
  Stand-in professor for Prof. Dr. Ursula Rao, University of Leipzig, Institute of Anthropology
• 09/2016 - 03/2018
  Postdoctoral research fellow with the ERC project GLOBHEALTH at the Centre de Recherche Médecine, Sciences, Santé, Santé Mentale et Société (cermes3), Paris
• 07/2016 - 08/2016
  Visiting professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• 04/2016 - 09/2016
  Employed research fellow LMU Munich, Institute of Anthropology. Project leader of the project “The local reality of depression: Depression in the context of biomedicine and subjectivities of depressionin Kerala, South India“, funded by DFG
• 10/2015 - 03/2016
  Stand-in professor for Prof. Dr. Helene Basu, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• 04/2015 - 09/2015
  Employed research fellow LMU Munich, Institute of Anthropology. Project leader of the project “The local reality of depression: Depression in the context of biomedicine and subjectivities of depressionin Kerala, South India“, funded by DFG
• 10/2014 - 03/2015
  Stand-in professor for Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• 07/2012 - 09/2014
  Employed research fellow LMU Munich, Institute of Anthropology. Project leader of the project “The local reality of depression: Depression in the context of biomedicine and subjectivities of depressionin Kerala, South India“, funded by DFG
• 09/2009 - 08/2011
  Employed research fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Institute of Anthropology. Project “Glocalizing depression in the context of Ayurvedic psychiatry in Kerala, South India”, funded by DFG
• 10/2007 - 03/2008
  Employed lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Institute of Anthropology
• 06/2006 - 05/2007
  Employed research fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Institute of Anthropology, pilot project "Local reception and transformation of the concept of depression in the medical pluralism of South Asia", funded by BGF
• 11/2002 - 10/2004
  Employed research fellow for the, project “Intersexual people between the two sexes”, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Institute of Anthropology, funded by BGF

Education

• 10/2014 - 03/2016
  Mentee in the LMU Mentoring Programm in the context of LMUexcellent, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• 06/2006 - 11/2016
  Habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Referees: Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann (LMU Munich), Prof. Dr. William Sax (South Asia Institute, Heidelberg), Prof. Dr. Mitchell Weiss (Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel)
• 11/2002 - 02/2006
  Dr. phil., Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, thesis title: Intersexualität. Menschen zwischen den Geschlechtern (Intersexuality. People between the two sexes) at grade “summa cum laude”

Claudia Lang is an associate professor (Heisenberg). Her research focuses on the reconfiguration of mental health and care through digitization in India. Other research areas include global health, depression, Ayurveda, science and technology, and melancholic living in late industrial India. Her regional focus is South Asia.

She is the author of "Depresssion in Kerala. Ayurveda and mental health care in the 21st century" (Routledge); co-author of "Global health for all: Knowledge, Politics, and Practices" (Rutgers); and co-author of “The Movement for Global Mental Health: Critical Views from South and Southeast Asia” (Amsterdam University Press). 

She is a research associate at the Max-Planck-Institute of Anthropology, Halle and currently a Visiting Scholar at Tufts University, Boston.

Teaching: medical anthropology, global health, mental health, science and technologies, environment, India

• Lovell, A. M.; Read, U. M.; Lang, C.

  Genealogies and Anthropologies of Global Mental Health

  Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 2019. 43 (4). pp. 519–547.

  DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09660-7
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• Lang, C.

  Inspecting Mental Health: Depression, Surveillance and Care in Kerala, South India

  Culture Medicine and Psychiatry. 2019. 43 (4). pp. 596–612.

  DOI: 10.1007/s11013-019-09656-3
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Claudia Lang's teaching aims to introduce students to current debates and anthropological topics and to support them in developing their own questions, critical thinking and independent scientific work. The teaching approach is the combination of lectures and seminars, individual and collaborative, theoretical and practical learning in and outside the classroom, and the integration of research and teaching. 

Specific subject areas are medical anthropology, anthropology of religion, global health, South Asia, gender and methods. 

• Courses in recent years

  Anthropology and Crisis Communication, Seminar, MA Anthropology, University of Leipzig

  Introduction to Medical Anthropology of South Asia, Seminar, BA Anthropology, LMU Munich 

  Regional Anthropology of South Asia, Lecture and Seminar, BA Anthropology, University of Leipzig

  Methods of Anthropology, lecture and field research exercise, BA Anthropology, University of Leipzig

  Anthropology and Mental Health, Seminar, BA Anthropology, University of Münster