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Positions

• 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-)

• Visiting Professor (Vertr.-Professorin) of Anthropology of the Americas, Department of Anthropology of the Americas, University of Bonn (10/2024-03/2025)

• 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

• Habilitation in Social and Cultural Anthropology submitted for evaluation in July 2025 ("Transactional Regimes, Spectral Materiality, and Subtilization: Studies in Anthropology of the Body")
• 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

• University of the West Indies, St. Augustine (2024)
• 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)

Editorial Boards

• Associate Editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief  (Taylor & Francis) 
• Book Series The Early Americas: History and Culture (with Mariana Françozo, Rosemary Joyce, Genner Llanes-Ortiz and Karoline Noack)
• 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)