Gunther Dietz

Gunther Dietz

Dr. Gunther Dietz Institute for Studies in Education, University of Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico

Gunther Dietz has studied Anthropology, Hispanic Studies, Philosophy and Sociology at the Universities of Granada (Spain), Göttingen and Hamburg (Germany), M.A. and PhD in Anthropology at Hamburg University; has been teaching at the Universities of Hamburg, Granada (Spain), Ghent (Belgium) and Aalborg (Denmark), currently Research Professor at Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico), member of the Mexican National Research System and of the Mexican Council for Educational Research as well as of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

Main research interests: minority integration and development policies in indigenous regions, ethnicity, interculturality and intercultural / inter-religious education; ethnic and/or multiculturalist movements and non-governmental organizations as new social actors. He is currently coordinating the project «Dialogues of Knowledge, Practice and Power Between Educational and Community Actors: a reflexive ethnography of intercultural higher education in Veracruz» (InterSaberes).

Latest publications: Muslim Women in Southern Spain: Stepdaughters of Al-Andalus (co-author, San Diego, 2005), Intercultural Universities in Mexico: empowering indigenous peoples or mainstreaming multiculturalism? (journal «Intercultural Education», Brussels, 2009), Islam in Education in European Countries: Pedagogical Concepts and Empirical Findings (co-editor; Münster, New York, München & Berlin, Waxmann, 2009), Multiculturalism, Interculturality and Diversity in Education: an anthropological approach (Münster, New York, München & Berlin, 2009), New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, South & Central America (co-author, ed. by L. Meyer & B. Maldonado, San Francisco, CA, 2010).