Curriculum Vitae
Education
July 2015
“Habilitation” (postdoctoral degree “Dr. phil. habil.”) at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (post doctoral thesis: Social Construction and Development of “Indonesian Hinduism” in Bali and Beyond: Religion, Law, and Ethnic Identity Politics in Modern Indonesia)
1997
Dr. phil. at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (doctoral thesis: Weltbild, Heilspragmatik und Herrschaftslegitimation im vorkolonialen Bali – Eine Analyse des höfischen Diskurses)
1988 – 1996
Doctoral program at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (anthropology, European ethnology, social psychology)
1988
Magister Artium at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (MA thesis: Indonesische Kulturpolitik und die Revitalisierung der balinesischen Darstellenden Künste)
1981 – 1988
Magister Artium program at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany (anthropology, European ethnology, social psychology, prehistory, Indian studies)
Academic Positions
April – September 2016
Fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities”, Leipzig University, Germany
November 2015
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
Winter 2015/2016
“Privatdozent” for the BA-level course: Die Entwicklung ethnographischer Methoden innerhalb der Ethnologie”
October 2015 – present
Member (“Privatdozent”) of the Philosopical Faculty I, Martin Luther Univeristy Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
June 2015 – August 2015
Visiting fellow at the KITLV/Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands
February 2015
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
Summer 2014
Guest lecturer at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (BA-course: Kulturelle Übersetzung in der Rechtsethnologie)
March 2014 – February 2015
Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre of Advance Studies “Law and Culture”, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany (Project: Cultural Translation of International Legal Norms – “Indigeneity” and “Indigenous Rights” in Bali)
March 2014 – present
Associated researcher at the “Law & Anthropology” Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany
February 2014
Guest professor at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Oñati, Spain (Sociology of Law Master-course: Law and Anthropology)
March 2012 – February 2014
Senior researcher at the “Law and Anthropology” Department of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany (Projects: The Cultural Translation of Buddhism into Different European Jurisdictions; The Social Construction of “Hinduism” and “Buddhism” in Modern Indonesia: Law, Religion and Ethnic Identity Politics)
Winter 2010/2011
Guest lecturer at the Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (BA- and MA-course: Recht und Religion: Zum Verhältnis von Normativität und Identitätskonstruktion)
October 2006 – February 2012
Senior researcher in the Project Group ”Legal Pluralism” at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/S., Germany (Project: Religion in Disputing Processes: The Juridification of “Hindu Law” in Bali)
Summer 2002
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Globalised Religious Identity in Southeast Asia)
Winter 2001/2002
Guest lecturer at the Theological Faculty, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: The Spirituality of Predominantly Oral Cultures)
November 2001 – October 2006
Researcher at the “Dutch Ethnology” Department of the Meertens-Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Projekt: Detraditionalization and the Development of New Forms of Religiosity in Contemporary Dutch Society)
Winter 2001
Guest professor at the International Graduate School of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Lecture course: Cultural Sciences: Anthropologists and Sociologists on Religion)
Summer 2001
Guest professor at the International Graduate School of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Lecture course: Cultural Sciences: Anthropologists and Sociologists on Religion)
Summer 2001
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Globalised Religion and Local Identity in Southeast Asia)
Summer 2001
Guest lecturer in the Advanced Master Program “Ritual, Religion, and the Construction of Sacred Space” of the Research School CNWS (Center for Non-Western Studies) Leiden University, the Netherlands
December 2000 – March 2001
Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) in Leiden, the Netherlands (Project: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)
Summer 2000
Guest lecturer at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Katholieke Universiteit te Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Global Religion and Local Tradition in Southeast Asia)
Winter 1998/1999
Guest lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Non-Western Sociology, Leiden University, the Netherlands (Undergraduate course: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)
Summer 1998
Guest lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology, Westfälische Wilhelms University Münster, Germany (Undergraduate course: Hinduismus in Indonesien: Von der Frühgeschichte bis heute)
December 1997 – November 2000
European Science Foundation research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands (Project: Hinduism in Modern Indonesia)