Dr. Swetlana Torno, 2022-2025
Curriculum Vitae
Swetlana
Torno was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Research Group
‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’ and is a guest in 2025. She obtained her doctoral degree in Social
Anthropology from Heidelberg University having previously studied Anthropology,
Geography and Biology at the Universities of Tübingen, Germany and McGill, Canada.
Before joining the MPI-MMG, she was associated member of the Heidelberg Centre
for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and held a doctoral scholarship at the Cluster
of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in Global Context’, both at Heidelberg
University. Swetlana’s research focuses on ageing, mobility, intergenerational
relations, care, and gender in Central Asia, where she has extensive
ethnographic fieldwork experience. She is currently working on various
dissertation-related publications, including her book manuscript Aspirations,
Obligations, Linked Lives: Care and Women’s Life Courses in Tajikistan. Within
the scope of her postdoctoral project, she investigates the relational mobility
of elderly people from Tajikistan in the context of mass labor migration.