Andre Gingrich since 1998 to 2017 has been a full professor at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
Since 2003, he is director of the Institute of Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
[1] He obtained both his doctoral degree (1979) in social anthropology (together with studies in sociology, Arabic, and Middle Eastern history) and his habilitation (1990) at Vienna University.
[1] His research interests include anthropology and history of south-western Arabia (Saudi Arabia and Yemen), theories and methods in anthropology, the history of anthropology,[2] personal identity, gender studies, ethnicity theory, paradox, globalization, nationalism, practice and experience of ethnographic fieldwork and intercultural and comparative analyzes of Arabic sources in ethnological and historical interpretation.
[4] He is editorial board member for peer-reviewed journals: Ethnos (Sweden) and Focaal (Netherlands); an advisory board member at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/G) and for the Frobenius Institute at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt.