Gabriele Mentges

Gabriele Mentges is a cultural anthropologist. She studied ethnology, European ethnology, philosophy and sociology at the universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg and Marburg, and spent a period of study at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris. She earned a master’s degree in ethnology from the University of Heidelberg and a PhD in European ethnology from the University of Marburg. From 1986 to 1996, she worked as a curator at the National Museum of Württemberg. She later taught cultural anthropology of textiles at TU Dortmund University. Her scholarly work focused on material and visual culture, the history of fashion and gender, museology, and textile culture and nation-building in Central Asia.