Position(s) at the Institute

Professor, Anthropology and Sociology of Development

Profile

PhD, Anthropology and Sociology, University of Lausanne
Habilitation à diriger des recherches (post-doctoral degree), EHESS, Paris
Prior to joining the Institute in 2003, Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff taught and undertook research in Canada and France, and carried out various projects in the field of human rights, as well as indigenous and minority rights, especially within the UN system. She was a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton as well as programme director at the Collège international de Philosophie in Paris and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology of McGill University in Montréal, among other appointments.

Areas of expertise

• Cultural and legal anthropology
• Non-Western epistemologies
• Anthropology of non-state legal systems
• Rights of indigenous peoples and minorities
• Legal pluralism
• Critical multiculturalism
• International organisations
• Social rituals and ceremonial exchange
• War and peace

Selected publications

• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff and Adil Hasan Khan, The permanent quest for a mandate: assessing the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Griffith Law Review 20(3) (2011): 673-701.
• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, Los derechos culturales de las minorías étnicas y los pueblos indígenas, in Los laberintos de la educación (S. Cardús et al.). Barcelona : Gedisa Editorial, 2011, p. 129-158.
• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, Peuples autochtones : penser le dilemme fondateur de l’État néo-européen. In Autochtonies : vues de France et du Québec (N. Gagné, T. Martin, M. Salaün eds). Sainte-Foy (Quebec): Presses de l’Université Laval, 2009, p. 111-127.
• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, L’Autre et le traité : pour une anthropologie des traités autochtones, in Un droit pour des hommes libres : Etudes en l’honneur du professeur Alain Fenet (A.-S. Lamblin-Gourdin, E. Mondielli eds). Paris: Litec, 2008, p. 239-251.
• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff, "Te tino rangatiratanga" : substance ou apparence? Réflexion sur le dilemme constitutionnel de l'Etat néo-zélandais. Politique & Société 23(1) (2004) : 89-114.
• Isabelle Schulte-Tenckhoff (dir.), Altérité et droit : contributions au rapport entre droit et culture, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2002, coll. Droits, Territoires, Cultures, 416 p.

Fellowship and activities

• Research grants by the Multiculturalism Programme/Canadian Heritage (2001-2002); Fund of the Four Directions (Rockefeller Foundation) (1997, 1998-1999); Swiss National Science Foundation (1981-1982, 1989-1991).
• Research fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution (1995); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (jointly with the Janggen-Pöhn Foundation, St. Gallen) (1988-1989).
• Visiting lecturer at various universities in Switzerland and Canada, including the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich; the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal; the Indigenous Governance Programme, University of Victoria (B.C.); the Department of Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal.
• Co-founder and co-editor of the series "Droits, Territoires, Cultures" published by Bruylant, Brussels.

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