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Positions

Research group leader of the research group "Marking Power: Embodied Dependencies, Haptic Regimes and Body Modification", Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), University of Bonn, Germany (2020-)

Research associate at the Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies, Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg, University of Cologne (2016-2020)
Postdoctoral researcher at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne (2015-2016)
Research associate in the project From the Caribbean to North America and Back, Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), Heidelberg University (2010-2013)

Education

Ph.D in Social Anthropology, Heidelberg University (2014)

M.A. in Human Geography, Social Anthropology and Indology, University of Göttingen (2010)

Executive Boards and Committee Work

Head of Committee / President, Society for Caribbean Research (Socare e.V.) (since March 2023)
Equal Opportunity Representative, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (since December 2023)
Executive Board, Society for Caribbean Research (Socare e.V.), Coordinator of the Division “International Affairs” (03/2021 – 03/2023)
Representative and Speaker of the Research Group Leaders and Postdoctoral Researchers, Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (12/2020 – 12/2021)
Founding Member of the Working Group “Umgang mit Übergriffen auf Feldforschungen” [Dealing with Violence/Assault during Fieldwork], cooperation with the Gender Equality Office, University of Bonn (09/2020 – 09/2021)
Member of the Finding Commission for the Steering Committee of the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne (11/2020 – 12/2020)

Fellowships

Affiliated Fellowship at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, University of Leiden, Netherlands (March - April 2018)
Fellowship at the Center for Religion, Economy and Politics (ZRWP), University of Basel, Switzerland (2015-2017)

Visiting Researcher

Awards & Scholarships

'Mobility Grant' for fieldwork in Suriname and Guyana, University of Cologne (2017)
Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a five-month research period at the University of Guyana (2011-2012)
Scholarship of the University of Göttingen, funded by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany (2010)

Editorial Boards

Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Global South Studies", University of Virginia (2017-)
Member of the Editorial Board of the web magazine “Voices from Around the World,” Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne (10/2015 – 12/2018)

Memberships

Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (DGSKA), German Anthropological Association (2017-)
Member of the network GeStiK (Gender Studies in Köln), University of Cologne (2017-)
Member of the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne (2015-)
Member of the Society of Caribbean Research (Socare), (2015-)
Associated Member of the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, Heidelberg University (2012-2014)