Johanna Mugler is a Social Anthropologist. She is an assistant professor at the chair for Political and Legal Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland and member of the International Max-Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment at the Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Johanna earned her post-graduate degrees at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Cape Town. Her PhD thesis is entitled “By Their Own Account. An Ethnography of (Quantitative) Accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa”, (submitted August 2014, defence eminent).

Currently she is conducting field research in London, Paris and Switzerland for her Postdoc in which she explores the fiscal accountabilities of global taxpayers and the emergence and change of international business taxation norms and standards. Her publications include the edited volume “A World of Indicators” co-edited with Sally Engle Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Richard Rottenburg (Cambrigde University Press forthcoming 2015).