Curriculum Vitae

Education

2020
M.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, Germany
2016
B.A.  Social and Cultural Anthropology and Geography, University of Cologne, Germany

Prizes & Grants

2020    
VAD award 2020 for the best essay on African politics: “Crises, downside up”; African Studies Association Germany (VAD e.V.)
2020    
Faculty Prize 2020 for the Master thesis, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne
2018    
Research Grant from the DAAD Thematic Network “Remapping the Global South – Teaching, Researching, Exchanging”, awarded by the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne

Research Experience

2018
Ethnographic research for Master thesis; in cooperation with University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa, 3 months
Topic: It’s a privilege to call it a crisis: Improvised practices and socio-economic dynamics of Cape Town’s current water shortage
2016-2017
Ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee accommodation, Cologne, Germany, in cooperation with University of Cologne and ArtAsyl e.V., 5 months
Topic: Cooking, Consuming, Communication – Food habits of a flat-sharing community in a refugee home
2016
Ethnographic fieldwork in Opuwo, Namibia; in cooperation with the University of Namibia (UNAM) and University of Cologne, 2 months
Topic: Divergence of interests: the current situation of the controversy over the construction of the Orokawe dam (2016)
2014
Ethnographic research project with Cologne Children’s University, in cooperation with Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, 3 months
Topic: regional food production chain, fair trade, ethnographic methods

Extracurricular Experience

2016-2022
Research Assistant, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “DELTA - Volatile Waters and the Hydrosocial Anthropocene in Major River Deltas” (DFG), Department of Anthropology, University of Cologne
2019
Summer School in ethnographic and documentary filmmaking - Filmmaking for Fieldwork (F4F) at ‘Futureworks School of Media’ in Manchester
2017
Field School “Africa-Asia Connections” in Cape Town, in cooperation with the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and the University of Western Cape (UWC) funded by DAAD Network “Remapping the Global South”
Since 2019
volunteer work at literary project stimmen afrikas, Allerweltshaus Köln e.V.

Papers presented

2021     Presentation at Afrika-Kolloquium at Goethe University Frankfurt; Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Title: “It’s a privilege to call it a crisis”: Improvised practices and socio-economic dynamics of Cape Town’s water shortage
2019     Presentation at the SIEF Conference “Track Changes: Reflections on a Transforming World” in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Title: “It’s a privilege to call it a crisis” - sociocultural dynamics of Cape Town’s current water situation

Languages

German
English
Spanish (working knowledge)
French (basic knowledge)