Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Since 2002
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Current Project: Between Disintegration and Integration: Fulbe refugees from the Central African Republic in Cameroon
Academic Education
1985 - 1992
Magister Artium in Ethnology, Sociology and Political Science, Free University Berlin
1991 - 1996
Course of Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld
1996
Ph.D. with a thesis entitled "'Les Fulbe du Borgou n’ont vaincu personne': de la culture politique d’une minorité ethnique béninoise"
Professional Experience as Social Anthropologist
1996 - 1997
Research Fellow at the University of Bielefeld
Project: "Ethnizitäten im Vergleich: Abgrenzungs- und Assimilationsprozesse bei den Fulbe in der Elfenbeinküste, Burkina Faso, Benin und Kamerun" (financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
1998-1999
Guest Curator at the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart
2000-2001
Postdoctoral Scholarship at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Project: "Ethnicity and Integration: The Fulbe of northern Benin and northern Cameroon and their neighbours"
2002-2005
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Project: "Friendship and Kinship: On the difference and relevance of two systems of social relationships. The case of the Fulbe societies of northern Cameroon and northern Benin" (part of the interdisciplinary project "Freundschaft und Verwandtschaft: Zur Unterscheidung und Relevanz zweier Beziehunzssysteme" financed by the Volkswagen Foundation)
2006 - 2015
Senior Research Fellow; Editor of online diaries (Department 'Integration and Conflict'); Scientific advisor for data securement and archiving
2016 - present
Senior Research Fellow; editorial work for the series "Field Notes and Research Projects" (Department 'Integration and Conflict'); Research project in cooperation with the project entitled "Kinship Universals and Variation (KUV)"
Languages
German, French, English, Fulfulde