Dafina Gashi is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Studies/European Ethnology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Čarna Brković. Her doctoral thesis focuses on global beauty practices, neoliberal subjectivity, and cosmetic surgery in post-independence Kosovo. Previously, she completed a master’s degree in Anthropology and Visual Studies at the University of Siena, where she conducted ethnographic research on the bodies of migrant women in Italy. Her research interests include Visual Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality, and the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment.

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

  • Visual anthropology
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Anthropology of the body and embodiment

BKM Building (Kantstraße 2)
1st floor, Room 106
55122 Mainz

Email: gashidaf@uni-mainz.de

Office hours
by appointment via email

  1. S. Medialität und Visualität der Kultur: Multimodale Anthropologie/Multimodal Anthropology
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi
  2. SLS. Begleitende Lektüre
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi; Marlene Sophie Hempel; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Mirko Uhlig; Eva-Maria Walther
  3. SLS. Begleitende Lektüre II
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi; Marlene Sophie Hempel
  4. Ü. Schlüsseltexte und Schlüsselbegriffe (Sommer)
    Instructor: Dafina Gashi; Roman Olshevskiy; Alina Sotiieva

SoSe 2026