Sascha Sistenich M.A.
(he/him)
Research assistant & Person of Trust
Am Hofgarten 22
53113 Bonn
Consultation hours:
By appointment via email
sascha.sistenich@uni-bonn.de
+49 (0)228 / 73-5017

Please contact me at sascha.sistenich@uni-bonn.de if you have anygeneral enquiries or concerns about research and teaching, if you would like to make an appointment for a consultation with me as Person of Trust at the Institute XI Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology.
Short Biography
Studied Transcultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology and Multilingual Communication at the University of Applied Scienes Cologne, Universidad de Granada (2014-2018) and the University of Bonn (2018-2021). Research Assistant (2018-2021), Lecturer & Writing Consultant (since 2021) at the Writing Centre of the Competence Workshop of University of Applied Scienes Cologne. Since August 2021 programme manager, research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Department of Cultural Analysis and Cultural Anthropology at the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bonn.
Research focus
Queere Anthropology
Anthropology of Care
Gender and queer studies
Activist/Ethnography of Solidarity
Biographical research
Feminist linguistics
Teaching
Summer Semester 2025
Projektseminar (M.A. Transcultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology)
Empirical methods of cultural anthropology / Empirical cultural studies (SoSe 2025) (B.A. Culural Anthropology/Empirical Culture Studies)
Introduction to scientific work (B.A. Ancient American Studies and Ethnology)
Winter Semester 2024/25
Winter Semester 2023/24
Summer Semester 2023
Winter Semester 2022/23
Summer Semester 2022
Introduction to Academic Writing (B.A. Ancient American Studies & Ethnology) (Summer Semester 2022)
Guided self-study for the practical exercise Introduction to Scientific Work (summer semester 2022)
Research projects
2019-21: Queer(ed) identities? Autobiographical negotiations of non-binary gender(s). (Master's thesis at the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn)
Publications (selection)
Sistenich, Sascha (2024): Queer Identities? Autobiographical Negotiations of Nonbinary Genders. Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster.
Sistenich, Sascha (in publication): Queering Care: Für_Sorge und Widerständigkeit in Zeiten der Krise. In: Felix Gaillinger, Julia Böcker, Manuel Bolz, Maya Halatcheva-Trapp und Lisa Yashodhara Haller (Hrsg.): Doing Law in familialen und verwandtschaftlichen Kontexten. Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Sorge im Alltag. transcript Reihe »Care – Forschung und Praxis«.
Sistenich, Sascha (2022): Geschlechtliche Vielfalt und Nichtbinarität in wissenschaftlichen Texten. In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (15): Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches (=Tagungsband der 33. Studierendentagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) "Sex.Sex.Sex. Kulturwissenschaftliche Höhepunkte & Abgründe", 13-16 Mai 2021, Universität Hamburg". Hamburg 2022, pp. 73-86.
Sistenich, Sascha / Brüggemann, Marie / Geis, Natascha / Meisen, Alexandra / Offergeld, Felicitas (2021): Gender*n und Sprache. Ein interaktiver Workshop als Möglichkeit der kulturanthropologischen Betrachungen eines transdisziplinären Feldes. In: Maren Sacherer (Hg.): Überfällig - Überflüssig. Beiträge der Studierendentagung 2019 (=Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, Bd. 50). Wien 2021, pp. 76-85.
Schuch, Elke; Sistenich, Sascha (2020): Gay Consumers as a niche market: Changing representations of male homosexuality in German advertisements from 2000 to the present. Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies - JOCIS, 5(1), 50-67. https://doi.org/10.56140/JOCIS-v5-3
Worth, Maria-Anna; Sistenich, Sascha (2021): Online-Selbstlernmodul "Geschlechtergerechtes Formulieren in wissenschaftlichen Texten. Ein Special zum wissenschaftlichen Stil.", Schreibzentrum TH Köln.
Talks
"Between Political Activism and Everyday Practice: Queer Care as a Resistant Practice," Gender and Diversity Research Colloquium at the University of Bonn, 15. April 2025
"Between Political Activism and Everyday Practice: Queer Care as a Practice of Resistance" Contribution to the conference "Mapping Gender Struggles: Gender as a Field of Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements" organized by the Commission for Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) from November 23-25, 2023, in Munich.
"AI in Research and Teaching." Workshop on the possible uses, potentials, and potential consequences of AI tools in higher education teaching and cultural anthropological research for the annual networking meeting of Austrian university institutes for European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Analysis at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna on October 20, 2023.
"Movimientos y resistencia queer. Un panorama general histórico." Beitrag zur Summer School “Nuevos feminismos en América Latina” des Interdisziplinären Lateinamerikazentrum (ILZ) der Universität Bonn am 18.07.2023 (engl. Contribution to the Summer School “Nuevos feminismos en América Latina” of the Interdisciplinary Latin American Center (ILZ) of the University of Bonn on 18 July 2023)
"Gender and Culture: Gender Diversity in Language and Everyday Life Using Non-Binary Gender as an Example", contribution to the lecture series "Intercultural Communication" of the Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication at the TH Köln on 1 June 2023
"Social Situation of Writing" Short Input for the Writing Week 2023 of the Writing Center of the Competence Workshop, TH Köln, and the Competence Center for Writing at the University of Cologne, 27 February - 3 March 2023
"Queer Practices of Care. Marginalizations and Queer Boundary Dissolution Practices in (Post)Pandemic Times", contribution to the lecture series "Gender Dialogues. Ethnological-Cultural Anthropological Conversations on Gender" of the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bonn on January 18, 2023
"Social Situation of Writing" Short Input for the Writing Time 2022 of the Writing Center of the Competence Workshop, TH Köln, and the Competence Center for Writing of the University of Cologne, 29 August - 2 September 2022
"Gender-fair language and research in the context of gender diversity using the example of non-binary gender(s)" at the 33rd dgv Student Conference "Sex.Sex.Sex. Highlights & Abysses in Cultural Studies" from May 13-16 - Digital
"The Myth of the Gay Man: Gay Consumers as a Niche Market: Changing Representations of Male Homosexuality in German Advertisements from 2000 to the Present" at the 33rd dgv Student Conference "Sex.Sex.Sex. Highlights & Abysses in Cultural Studies" from May 13-16 - Digital
“Gender-fair language and research in the context of gender diversity using the example of non-binary gender(s)” at the ITMK, TH Köln.
Prizes & awards
Networks
Member of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (dgekw)
Member of the TRA 5 Present Pasts (Transdisciplinary Research Area der Uni Bonn)
Member of the Rhenish Society for Everyday Culture Research (Rheinische Gesellschaft für Alltagskulturforschung)
Member of the Critical Relationship Research Network
Spokesperson of the Structured Doctoral Programme of the Faculty of Arts