• 2021 – Coordinator and Senior Researcher within the interdisciplinary research project "Mobile Mosquitoes", FU Berlin.
• 2019 – Associate Professor of Anthropology (Privatdozent), Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
• 2014 – 2019  Junior Research Group Leader “The Transcultural Heritage of Northwest Australia”, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg.
• 2011 – 2014  Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Memberships and other Functions

• Chairperson of the German Association for Australian Studies (GASt)
• Vice-President (membership) of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)
• European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
• Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (HCE)
• Petrocultures Research Group (www.petrocultures.com)

Carsten Wergin is a senior researcher and coordinator of Mobile Mosquitoes, a pioneering research initiative based at Free University Berlin. Bringing together an international consortium of scholars from India, Mexico, Tanzania, and Germany, the project advances a transdisciplinary global health perspective on the intertwined mobilities of Aedes mosquitoes and humans. Cultural anthropologists, human geographers, and entomologists collaborate across disciplines and continents to explore how movement, environment, and disease intersect in a rapidly changing world. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Grant No. 9B366).

I Monographs

• 2023  Tourism, Indigeneity, and the Importance of Place: Fighting for Heritage at Australia’s Last Frontier. New York: Bloomsbury. (winner of the 2025 Nelson Graburn Book Prize)
• 2018  Der Ruf des Schneckenhorns: Hermann Klaatsch (1863 – 1916): Ein Heidelberger Wissenschaftler in Nordwestaustralien. Heidelberg: heiBOOKS (with Corinna Erckenbrecht).
• 2010  Kréol Blouz: Musikalische Inszenierungen von Identität und Kultur (with CD). Köln, Weimar, Wien: Böhlau.

II Edited Volumes (selected)

• 2025  Handbuch Umweltethnologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS (with Kathrin Eitel).
• 2024  Digitising Heritage: Transoceanic Connections between Australia and Europe. Heidelberg: HeiUP (with Stefanie Affeldt).
• 2013  Musical Performance and the Changing City: Post-Industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States. New York: Routledge (with Fabian Holt).

III Journal Articles (selected)

• 2024 Risk of Aedes-borne diseases in and around the Tanzanian seaport of Tanga despite community members being more concerned about malaria. Parasites & Vectors 17, 512 | 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-024-06586-x (with AS Abas, AJ Simfukwe, JP Masalu et al.)
• 2023  From Transculture to Transecology. Coming to Terms with Multispecies Conviviality in the Education for Sustainable Development. heiEDUCATION Journal 9 | 2023: 83–95. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.heied.2023.9.24724
• 2022  All Landscape is Collaborative: Re-Mobilizing Care and Concern on a Damaged Planet. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 35(3): 445-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2022.2095991

IV Contributions to Edited Volumes (selected)

• 2025  Lazily Invasive? Critical Mappings with Aedes Mosquitoes, Humans and Landscapes. In: C Mezes, S Opitz and A Wiegeshoff (eds.) Ecologies of Disease Control: Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective, Pittsburgh University Press, 159-175. (with U Beisel)
• 2021  Responsibility = Ownership? An Ethnographic Moment in Native Title, in: Geoff Rodoreda und Eva Bischoff (eds.) Mabo's Cultural Legacy. History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia. London: Anthem Press, pp. 47-58.
• 2019 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom, in: B Neumeier and H Tiffin (eds.) Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 109-122.