Curriculum Vitae

Education

2014
Doctor of Public Administration, German University of Administrative Sciences
Dissertation title: “The Organization of Solidarity in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Town of Mostar. Approaches from Cultural Anthropology and Administrative Sciences”

2003 - 2005
Magister Program at the German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer/Germany.
Master in Administrative Sciences (Magistra rerum publicarum)
Thesis: “State-building and the theoretical concept of development administration”

1997 - 2003
Magister Artium Program at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen/Germany (Social and Cultural Anthropology, Modern European History).
Thesis: “The Bandit Chossiadas Under Bavarian Rule in Greece (1833-37)”

1999 - 2000
Erasmus student at the Kapodistrias University (History) and the Panteion University (Cultural Anthropology) in Athens, Greece.

Professional Activities / Teaching

2018 - present
Senior Research Fellow at the MPI for Social Anthropology, Department 'Law & Anthropology'

2015 - 2018
Academic coordinator of the Law & Society Institute, Faculty of Law/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Courses taught:
- Research seminar "The German Judiciary and Socicultural Diversity" (2 semesters)

2014
Researcher in the project "Judicial Practice and Cultural Diversity in Europe", Department of Law & Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

2011 - 2013
Lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Germany

Courses taught at BA-level:
- Anthropological methods
- Introduction to the ethnography of Southeastern Europe
- History and theory of Mediterranean anthropology
- Introduction to techniques and standards of academic work

Courses taught at MA-level:
- Anthropological approaches to census, statistics and bureaucracy
- History of anthropology
- Fieldwork preparation course

2009 - 2011
Scientific coordinator of the Volkswagen Project “Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Germany.

2007 - 2009
Research assistant and scientific coordinator of section I, German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer/Germany.

2004
Internship (2 months) with the ‘Mostar Implementation Unit’ of the ‘Office of the High Representative’ (OHR) in Mostar/Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Internship (6 weeks) with the ‘Council of Europe Office’, Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Fieldwork

2015 - 2021
Intermittent fieldwork periods in Berlin and other German cities for the projects ‘Migration and the Transformation of German Administrative Law’ and ‘Sentiments of Bureaucracies’.

2005 - 2006
Fieldwork for the PhD thesis in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2002
Three months archival research for the M.A. thesis in the National Archives (GAK) and the Gennadius Library in Athens, Greece.

2001
Study trip (2 months) to Kyrgyztan, including an internship with a UNDP/UNV in Naryn.

Grants / Scholarships

2019-2023
Research grant for the project „Sentiments of bureaucracies: Affektive Folgen der digitalen Transformation in der deutschen Migrationsverwaltung“ [Sentiments of bureaucracies: Affective consequences of digital transformation in German migration management] within the Collaborative Research Centre [Sonderforschungsbereich] “Affective Societies” of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), together with Olaf Zenker (MLU Halle)

2017
Conference grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for the conference "Migration and the Transformation of Public Law. New directions in sociolegal studies and migration research"

2015 - 2017
Research grant from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for the project "Migration and the Transformation of German Administrative Law"

2013 - 2014
Rechtskulturen Fellow, Faculty of Law/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

2010/11
Short-term fellow (2 months) at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Goettingen/Germany.

2007
Marie Curie SocAnth short term fellow (3 months) at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.

2005/2006
Research grant by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) for fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina.


 

Membership in Professional Associations and Research Cooperations

European Association of European Anthropologists (EASA)
German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropologistis (DGSKA)
German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropologists
CaST

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