Julia von Sigsfeld

Julia von Sigsfeld is the current director’s research assistant at the GRASSI Ethnographic Museum Leipzig. Julia has a German-Mexican background and Ecuadorian roots. After completing her undergraduate studies in political sciences and anthropology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main she pursued a Masters‘ in Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. She completed her PhD, awarded by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin, in 2020 as a fellow of the international Research Training Group ‚Minor Cosmopolitanisms.‘ Her research interest lies in the sociology of knowledge and curation.