CV

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)

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

• University of Guyana (2017)
• University of Guyana, School of Education and Humanities (2011-2012)

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)

Executive Boards

• Society of Caribbean Research (Socare) since March 2021 (Coordinator of the Division "International Affairs")

Editorial Boards

• Member of the Advisory Editorial Board of "Global South Studies", University of Virginia (2017-)

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)