Academic Career

Current Position (since 2014)

• Lecturer and Post-Doc Researcher (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Göttingen University

Education & Degrees - Details

• Göttingen University, Germany (2009 – 2014)
  Doctorate in Social Sciences (Dr. disc.pol.), certificate awarded 02/09/2014 (magna cum laude)
  Dissertation in Social & Cultural Anthropology (submitted July 2013, defended: 27/01/2014)
  Title of Dissertation: “Youth at the Crossroads – Discourses on Socio-Cultural Change in Post-War Northern Uganda” (published 2014 with Göttingen University Press, Germany)
  Advisor: Prof. Roman Loimeier
• University of Hamburg, Germany (2003 – 2008)
  Magister in Social Anthropology and Political Science, certificate awarded 18/07/2008 (sehr gut)
  Title of Magister Thesis: “Towards a Culture of Participation? The Influence of Organizational Culture on Participation and Empowerment of ‘Beneficiaries’. A Case Study of a Social Organization in Pretoria.” (published 2009 with LIT-Verlag, Münster, Germany)

Post-Doc Grants

• Volkswagen Foundation Post-Doc Fellowship at Washington University, St. Louis, USA
  (Aug. 2016 – July 2017)
• Volkswagen Foundation: Grant for a Workshop at Washington University
  Title: Framing (Dis)Orders: Mental Health Institutions as Reflections of Political, Socio-Economic and Moral Orders in Different Historical and Regional Contexts
  (April 2017)
• Göttingen University – Macquarie University Staff Exchange Program
  3-week visiting fellowship at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  (Dec. 2018)
• ERASMUS+ Teaching Mobility in Hanoi, Vietnam
  Guest Lectures at the Anthropology Department of Vietnam National University
  (July 2018)

Field Research Experiences (including Research Grants)

• Field Research for Post-Doc Project in Uganda and Tanzania
  (Aug. 2015 – Oct. 2015)
• Field Research for Post-Doc Project in Kampala, Uganda funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation
  (Feb. 2015 – April 2015)
• Field Research for Dissertation in Gulu, Northern Uganda partly funded by the German Academic Exchange Service
  (Mar. 2010 – Feb. 2011)
• Exploratory Study in Gulu and Kampala (Uganda) for preparing a longer field research (see above)
  (Aug. 2009 – Sep. 2009)
• Field Research for Magister Thesis in Pretoria, South Africa funded by the German Academic Exchange Service
  (July 2007 – Sep. 2007)
• Self-organized Student Research Project in Niamey, Niger
  (Feb. 2006 – May 2006)