clipped from: news.ulster.ac.uk Ullrich Kockel, Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (AICH) at Magee, has been elected President of SIEF, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore.
He has undertaken fieldwork across Europe, especially in Ireland, Britain, Germany, Finland, Spain and Lithuania. Working within an interdisciplinary framework, his main research interests include ecological ethnology, heritage tourism, reflexive traditions, counter-cultural movements, and intercultural philosophy. He is editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures and a member of the editorial board of Ethnologia Europaea – the two leading journals in his field. Author/editor of ten books, he has recently been commissioned to produce the volume on Europe for the prestigious Blackwell Companions to Anthropology series.