Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Since September 2016
Counselor/ Social Worker, Migration Counseling Center St. Johannis, Halle

October 2011 – October 2015
PhD Candidate Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

June 2011 – October 2011
Internship at Transparency International Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

November 2010 – April 2011
Assistant Project Planning INTERTEAM development cooperation, Lucerne, Switzerland

2006 – 2010
Student Assistant Department of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich

Education

2011 – 2016
PhD in Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2004 – 2010
MA in Social Anthropology, Russian Linguistics and Sociology, University of Zurich

1998 – 2003
Middle school, Kantonsschule Sargans, Switzerland

Field Research

Aug 2012 - Dec 2013
Izmail, Ukraine, on the history of ethnic distinctions in southern Bessarabia

Sept 2008 – Feb 2009
Odessa, Ukraine, Perception of language policies and nation Building policies by young adults

Teaching Experience

Winter Term 2016/17
undergraduate seminar "Introduction to the techniques of anthropological research",Department for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Summer Term 2015
undergraduate seminar “Comrade Ethnographer – Ethnography and Ideology in Socialism” Department for Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg