Curriculum Vitae

Education

2014 – present
Ph.D Candidate, Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Dissertation: “God Cannot Live Here”: The Legal Conflicts Concerning the Twelve Tribes in Germany
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleine, Prof. Dr. Marie-Claire Foblets

2009 – 2013
M.A. Religious Studies, University of Leipzig
M.A. thesis (with A. Giese): Das Problem religiös-weltanschaulicher Neutralität des deutschen Staates im Angesicht religiöser Pluralisierung [The Problem of State Neutrality Concerning Religion and Ideology in Light of Religious Pluralization]
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Christoph Kleine, Prof. Dr. Hubert Seiwert

2006 – 2009
B.A. History, University of Leipzig
B.A. Thesis: Zwischen Konkurrenz und Konsens - Die Bedeutung der Religion für die Konstruktion römischer Herrschaft in der mittleren und späten Phase der Republik [Between Competition and Consensus – The Relevance of Religion for the Construction of Roman Reign in the Middle and Late Period of the Republic]
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Charlotte Schubert, Prof. Dr. Reinhold Scholl

Professional Activities

2012 – 2013
Academic coordinator of the research training group 'Religious Non-Conformism and Cultural Dynamics', University of Leipzig

2008 – 2011
Research assistant, Department of Ancient History and in the eHumanities project 'Extraction of Structured Knowledge from Ancient Sources (eAQUA)', University of Leipzig

Teaching

2013
Religionsgeschichte als Geschichtswissenschaft [History of Religions as Historical Science], Institute for the Study of Religions, University of Leipzig

2011
eAQUA – Text Mining in den Altertumswissenschaften [eAQUA – Text Mining in Classical Studies] (Workshop), Department of Ancient History, University of Leipzig

2010
Einführung in das Studium der Alten Geschichte [Introduction to Classical Studies] (Tutorial), Department of Ancient History, University of Leipzig

2009
Einführung in das Studium der Alten Geschichte [Introduction to Classical Studies] (Tutorial), Department of Ancient History, University of Leipzig

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

2013
Conference organizer (jointly with others): Challenging Consensus. New Perspectives on Religious Non-Conformism, University of Leipzig, 1-3 February 2013.

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

2015
The Long Way to Recognition: On the Legal Status of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany, XXI IAHR World Congress, Erfurt University, 23-29 August 2015.

2015
Jehovas Zeugen als Herausforderung für das deutsche Rechtssystem, Gesellschaftswissenschaftliches Kolloquium der Studienstiftung VI der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Workshop "(State) Law and its Limits", Kloster Roggenburg, 20-25 September 2015.

2014
How New Religions Challenge the Concept of ‘Corporate Bodies Under Public Law’ in Germany, International Conference "Legal Bodies (Corpus / Persona / Communitas): Rethinking Personhood in Law, Literature and the Arts", LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), 15-17 May 2014.

2011
(jointly with A. Giese) Vor dem Gesetz sind alle Religionen gleich …bis auf die Ausnahmen. Die Anerkennung von Religionsgemeinschaften als Körperschaften des öffentlichen Rechts - Am Beispiel von ‚Jehovas Zeugen' [All Religions Are Equal Before the Law … With a Few Exceptions. The Recognition of Religious Communities as Statutory Corporation – Exemplified by Jehovah’s Witnesses], 18. Symposium für junge Religionswissenschaft, University of Bayreuth, 2-5 June 2011.

Membership in Professional Associations

Arbeitskreis Religion und moderne Massenmedien (AKMMM)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW), Arbeitskreis Religionen und Politik (AKRelPol)

Languages

German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (basic)
Latin (reading knowledge)
Ancient Greek (reading knowledge)

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