Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

2004
PhD (summa cum laude), Ethnology, Free University of Berlin (Dissertation: Onukadili – An Industrial Settlement as a point of Confluence of pan-Indian social categories)

1999
M.A., Ethnology, Spanish Philology and Prehistory (Thesis: Kinship in North India: A Comparison of Ethnological Models)

1996
M.A. qualifying, Ethnology, Spanish Philology and Prehistory, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster, Germany

EMPLOYMENT

2006/07 winter term
Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin. Head of a 3 months excursion of 9 students of the Institute of Ethnology to Orissa financed by the DAAD and the Free University Berlin

2006 summer term
Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin (uncompensated temporary appointment)

2000 - 2005
Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Free University of Berlin, Germany

FIELDWORK

2004 - 2007
14 months of fieldwork among migrant and local ‘displaced’ workers of the Rourkela Steel Plant in the Sundargarh District of Orissa

2000 - 2003
17 months fieldwork among migrant workers in a public sector undertaking in the Koraput District of Orissa including short term field work in the workers’ native villages in the Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh and the Districts Ganjam and Balasore of Orissa

FELLOWSHIPS

2000 - 2005
Research Fellow in the project Contested Centres of the German Research Council (DFG)

LANGUAGES

German: native
English: fluent in speaking, reading and writing
Oriya: fluent in speaking; reading and writing skills
Spanish: 4 years language courses at university
Italian: 1 year language courses at university
Hindi: 1 year language courses at university
Latin: ‘Grosses Latinum’, certificate
Ancient Greek: ‘Graecum’, certificate