Curriculum Vitae
Professional Experiences
01/2015- now
Researcher in the Research Group Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
12/2015-05/2016
Researcher at Pasteur Institute: Biomedical Engagement in the West African Ebola Epidemic
12/2013-12/2014
Independent Researcher and Trainer
12/2010-11/2013
Researcher at Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (ZiF), Bielefeld University
Coordinator of Research Group: The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition
10/2010-12/2010
Lecturer at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Bochum University
Course: Anthropology in Humanitarian Intervention (within Network on Humanitarian Assistance/NOHA)
10/2005-09/2010
PhD Candidate in the Research Group Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Dissertation Thesis: Integration through Marginality: Local Politics and Oral Tradition in Guinea.
10/2004–01/2005
Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Göttingen University
Course: Economic Anthropology
10/2003–01/2004
Teaching Assistant at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Göttingen University
Course: Social Anthropology
Education and Fieldwork
04/2006-07/2007
Ethnographic fieldwork in Guinea
Research on local state, civil society, ethnic and national integration, oral tradition.
04/2004–08/2004
Ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Research on post-war conflict transformation, disarmament programmes and gender mainstreaming.
10/1999–09/2005
Georg-August-University, Göttingen, and University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Studies in Social Anthropology, Anthropology of Development, Political Science, International Relations and Economics.
MA-thesis: Choosing Between Different Realities: Gender Mainstreaming and Self-images of Women after Armed Conflict in Sierra Leone.
07/1999
Abitur at Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium, Friesoythe, Germany
12/1996
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) at Brauer College, Warrnambool, Australia
Grants
10/2011
German Research Foundation (DFG) Grant for the international conference Exploring the Cultural Constitution of (Causal) Cognition: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Approaches at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University.
08/2008–10/2008
Research Fellow at the Department for Philosophy and Human Sciences, State University of Campinas, Brazil
Focusing on post-conflict societies, changing gender relations and anthropology of West Africa. Co-supervision of MA-students working on West Africa.
07/2006
Young Scholar’s Award of the African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
Award for MA-thesis: Choosing Between Different Realities: Gender Mainstreaming and Self-images of Women after Armed Conflict in Sierra Leone.
10/2002–09/2005
Friedrich Ebert Foundation study and research scholarship
01/1996–12/1996
Youth for Understanding scholarship to Australia
International Cooperation
American Anthropological Association Emergency Initiative on the Ebola Outbreak
Situating Emerging Science, Medicine, & Technology at Dalhousie University, Canada
Organization of international Workshops and Conferences
11/2016
Social Sciences and biomedical engagement in the West African Ebola outbreak
(Workshop with Tamara Giles-Vernick)
Epidemiology of Emerging Diseases, Pasteur Institute, Paris
10/2015
Beyond Ebola: Knowledge Production and the limitations of Translation
(Workshop with Rose Marie Beck)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
04/2013
Exploring the Cultural Constitution of (Causal) Cognition: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Approaches at ZiF, Bielefeld University
06/2012
Methods-Workshop: Cultural Consensus Analysis: Theory, Method and Analysis at ZiF, Bielefeld University
05/2012
How Universal is Causal Cognition? Bielefeld University at ZiF, Bielefeld University
03/2012
Agents and Causes: Interdisciplinary Aspects of Mind Language and Culture at ZiF, Bielefeld University
12/2011
Magic and Medicine: Conceptions of Causality in Processes of Healing at ZiF, Bielefeld University
10/2011
The Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition: Setting the Stage for a Cross-disciplinary Endeavour at ZiF, Bielefeld University
Professional memberships
- International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
- German Anthropological Association (DGV)
- African Studies Association in Germany (VAD)
- Mande Studies Association (MANSA)
- Board member of “American Anthropological Association Emergency Initiative on the Ebola Outbreak”
Language skills
| German | mother tongue |
| Hungarian | mother tongue |
| English | fluent (C2) |
| French | fluent (C1) |
| Susu | advanced (B1) |
| Dutch | advanced (B1) |