Erdmute Alber (born July 14, 1963, in Hamburg) is a German ethnologist with research focus in political and kinship anthropology.

After completing her master's degree, she worked from 1993 to 2000 as a research assistant at the Institute for Ethnology at the Freie Universität Berlin supervised by Georg Elwert.

In the years 2001/02 she was employed as a research assistant in the DFG funded project Social Parenthood in West Africa.

She is a founding member and Principal Investigator of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, where she was Equal Opportunities Officer 2007-2009 and Vice Dean 2009–2011.

Of particular interest to her are topics at the interface of both fields, such as family and childhood policies, social parenting or child trafficking.

[7] Current concrete research topics are intergenerational relations, social parenthood and adoption, recent kinship constructions, siblings, football migration.

Albert has been co-responsible (together with Nikolaus Schareika) since 2021 in the ongoing DFG project "COVID-19 and nomadic pastoralism in the context of crisis and structural reform in Benin: learning from local risk management".