Robert Pichler

Robert Pichler is Head of the Research Group Historical Anthropology at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). His research focuses on migration and mobility, family and kinship, social and political transformations, nation-building, and visual culture in Southeastern Europe, with a particular focus on Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. He is Head of the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ethnologia Balkanica. His research also includes visual and photographic work, combining historical-anthropological research with documentary and artistic approaches.