Curriculum Vitae

Education and professional career

1983-86
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

1986-87
MA in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, University of Strasbourg II (France)

1987-93
Ecole des Hautes des Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

1993
PhD Ecole des Hautes Etudes (thesis title: “Les Fulbe du Boobola. Genèse et évolution de l’État de Barani, Burkina Faso”, published thereafter by Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, (see publications)).

1993-95
Postdoctoral Fellow in the framework of the Bielefeld “Market, State and Ethnicity” project, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld

1996-99
Research Fellow, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld. Financial help from the German Research Board, in the framework of the research project “Ethnizitäten im Vergleich”

1999-2004
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

2004
Habilitation, University of Leipzig

2005-2008
Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig

2008-2010
Lecturer, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig

2007
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Ethnology, Gottingen

2008
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich

2010
Lecturer in Anthropology and Cross-Cultural competencies at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2012
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Leadership and Civic Education, Koblenz