Christine Bischoff studied Cultural Studies/European Ethnology and German Literature at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and completed her master's degree with a thesis on the history of emotions and affect theory. This was followed by various freelance jobs at daily newspapers and academic book publishers. After her return to university she was a Junior Fellow at the Collegium Pontes of the Institute for Cultural Infrastructure of Saxony in Görlitz-Zgorzelec and worked on a research project on the strategies of European cultural policy.

She was a research assistant in the project "Integration and Exclusion through Images of the Other" of the National Research Program "Integration and Exclusion" (NRP 51) of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) and a research assistant at the Department of Cultural Studies and European Ethnology at the University of Basel. She completed her doctorate there with a thesis on "Blickregime der Migration". She then taught for several years as a research assistant at the Hamburg Institute for Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg, where she was entrusted with various functions (including student advising, module and third-party funding coordination, editorial management of the Hamburg Journal of Cultural Anthropology), before taking up a postdoctoral fellowship on her habilitation project "Religious Mobilities. Conversion as a Socio-Cultural Resonance Space".

Christine Bischoff has been working as a research assistant at Kiel University since 2018. Her main areas of research and teaching are:

•  Religiosity and spirituality, in particular conversion research in urban and peripheral areas
• Migration and postcolonialism research in connection with glocalization effects
• Theories and methods of visual anthropology with a focus on intermediality
• Methods and didactics in cultural studies
• Narratology and intertextuality in qualitative cultural research
• Interactions between material and immaterial culture, especially in connection with the areas of digitalization in everyday life and religiosity/spirituality
• Emotion and affect research in cultural studies

In the winter semester 2023/24 and the summer semester 2024, Christine Bischoff is a visiting professor at the Department of European Ethnology and offers the following courses:

WiSe 2023/24

• 080071 VU B330 Methods of Ethnographic Research
• 080123 SE M110 Visual Diversity. Cultural Perspectives on the Negotiation of Diversity in the Media

SoSe 2024

• 080011-1 KU B730 Ethnographic Writing 
• 080123-1 M120 Cultures of Confession. Forms of Medial Self-Constitution and Identity Politics