Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Since 2022
Advisory board European Research Council (ERC) Project Emptiness
Since July 2021
Executive Director at the Centre for Just Tansition and Sustainability (HALIS), togehter with Jonathan Everts and Azar Aliyev
Since February 2020
Executive Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (togehter with Prof. Dr. Jonathan Everts)
Since August 2018
Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
10/2017 – 07/2018
Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin), Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt Main
2017 - 2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
2014 - 2017
Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
2010 - 2014
Associate Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Cultural Anthropology, Department of Film, Theatre, and Empirical Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2009 - 2010
Lecturer, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
2002 - 2004
Project Coordinator, Baltic Sea School Berlin, Department for Northern European Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
APPOINTED VISITING POSITIONS
2017 - 2018
Visiting professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Goethe University Frankfurt Main
2016
Visiting Research Fellow. MIT CityScienceLab. Hafen City University Hamburg
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
2013
Positive evaluation as Associate professor (Juniorprofessorin) of Anthropology, Department of Film, Theatre and Empirical Cultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2004 - 2008
Dr. phil., Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin
1996 - 2001
Magistra Artium in European Ethnology and Scandinavian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
1991 - 1995
Studies of Baltic Philology and Scandinavian Studies, University Vilnius and University Copenhagen
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016
Fellowship, Gastwissenschaftsprogramm für Stadtforschung an der Hafen City Universität Hamburg, funded by ZEIT-Stiftung
2013 - 2017
Research project grant Farming Data, Forming the Cloud, funded by The Swedish Foundation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2009 - 2010
Scholarship funded by Berliner Programm zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
2004 - 2008
PhD Scholarship, funded by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
2000
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Award for excellent student paper, awarded for „Staat und Nation wollen sich gegenseitig kannibalisieren“. Die Zeitungsdebatte zur doppelten Staatsbürgerschaft.
MEMBERSHIPS
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
The Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT)
German Society for empirical cultural studies (dgekw), speaker of the commission Globalization_Europeanization: Ethnographies of the Political
German Society of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), member of working groups Europe and Public Anthropology
Advisory board European Research Council (ERC), Project Emptiness