Jeannine Bischoff
Managing Director
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Room 2.018
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 228 73 62444
dependency@uni-bonn.de
© J. Bischoff
Academic Profile
Research
Jeannine Bischoff currently focuses her research on Tibetan administrative documents concerning the rural communities that were attached Kundeling monastery, in Central Tibet, before 1959. The peasants living on these estates had a serf-like legal status binding them to Kundeling monastery.
3 edited volumes, 5 scientific papers, 25 national and international lectures and presentations.
Education
2008–2011
M.A. History and Culture of the Region China, Mongolia, Tibet, University of Bonn, Germany
M.A. History and Culture of the Region China, Mongolia, Tibet, University of Bonn, Germany
2007–2008
Study Abroad, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
Study Abroad, Tibet University, Lhasa, China
2005–2008
B.A. Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
B.A. Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Academic Positions
since 2018
Managing Director of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Managing Director of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
2015–2017
Research Associate, University of Bonn, Germany
Research Associate, University of Bonn, Germany
2015
Coordinator of the Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies
Coordinator of the Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies
2012–2015
Research Associate, University of Bonn, GermanyAufklapp-Text
Research Associate, University of Bonn, GermanyAufklapp-Text
Participation in Centers, Scientific Associations, Collaborative Projects
since 2016
Member of the European Labour History Network
Member of the European Labour History Network
since 2016
Member of the DFG/ANR project "Social Status in the Tibetan World"
Member of the DFG/ANR project "Social Status in the Tibetan World"
since 2016
Member of the ERC Project "The Tibetan Army of the Dalai Lamas, 1642–1959"
Member of the ERC Project "The Tibetan Army of the Dalai Lamas, 1642–1959"
since 2012
Member of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists
Member of the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists
Member of the German Tibetan Cultural Society
Selected Publications
- 2013. Right There But Still Unnoticed: Information on dGa’ ldan pho brang mi ser from Archival Material published in German(y). In Tibetans who escaped the Historian’s Net. Studies in the Social History of Tibetan Societies, edited by Ramble, Ch., P. Schwieger and A. Travers, 9–26 Kathmandu.
- 2016. Completely, Voluntarily and Unalterably?’ – Values and Social Regulation among Central Tibetan mi ser during the dGa’ ldan pho brang-period. In Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History, edited by Bischoff, J. and S. Mullard, 151–180. Leiden.
- With S. Mullard (eds.). 2016. Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History. Leiden.
- Bischoff, J. et. al (eds.). Ancient Currents, New Traditions: Papers Presented at the Fourth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists. Paris 2016, RET 37.
- 2017. Sklaverei auf dem Dach der Welt? Zur Anwendbarkeit des Begriffes auf tibetische Bauern und Viehzüchter. In Sklaverei in der Vormoderne. Beispiele aus außereuropäischen Gesellschaften. Dhau. Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, edited by Stephan Conermann. Saarbrücken.
- With A. Travers (eds.). 2018. Commerce and Communities: Social Status and Political Status and the Exchange of Goods in Tibetan Societies (Mid 17th to mid 20th centuries). Berlin.