Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
2014 - present
PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Educational Background
2013
MA in Sociology, title of the MA thesis: “Lachen als Ereignis. Einblicke in das EZ-Milieu Kasachstans durch eine ereignisethnographische Interaktionsstudie” (grade 1,1), supervised by PD Dr. Christian Meyer, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University
2008 – 2012
Course of studies in Sociology, University of Bielefeld
2007
Diploma in international relations, title of the diploma thesis „Kontaktaufnahme und Entwicklung der Beziehungen zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Israel” (grade 1,0), Kazakh-German University
2002 – 2007
Course of studies in international relations, Kazakh-German University
Professional Experience
05 – 08/2011
Internship at the Center for Gender Studies, Almaty, Kazakhstan
07 – 10/2009
Internship at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Accra, Ghana
09 – 11/2004
Internship at the Center for Research of the Public Opinion, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Fieldwork
05-08/2011
Kazakhstan, field work research for MA thesis
07-10/2009
Ghana, student research project „Modes of mobility in Ghana“ supervised by Dr. Nadine Sieveking, Bielefeld University, Germany
Scholarships
2013
Übergangsstipendium Shortcuts der Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology für angehende Doktorandinnen
2011
Rektoratsstipendium der Universität Bielefeld für Auslandspraktikum im Zentrum für Gender Forschung in Almaty, Kasachstan
2009
Rektoratsstipendium der Universität Bielefeld für Auslandspraktikum bei Friedriech-Ebert Stiftung in Accra, Ghana
Conferences and Round Tables (Participation and Organisation)
11/6-7/2012
‘The vernacularization of Gender in politics and the workplace in Kazakhstan’ presentation at the conference “Women in Modern Central Asia”, University of Graz, Austria (together with Benjamin Quasinowski)
08/25/2012
‘Laughter as Emotional Display in a Multilingual Setting of Post-Soviet Development’ presentation the Sociolinguistic Symposium 19, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
06/20-21/2011
Organization of two days Workshop at the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation on the topic “Wwedenie w etnometodologiyu in konwersazionnyi analiz” (Introduction to Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis) in Almaty, Kazakhstan
07/29/2009
Participation in discussion on the round table at the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Ghana, Accra on „The significance of political mobilization to the politically active youth in Ghana and Germany“
02/15/2003
Participation at the conference on „Some aspects of HIV“ at the German Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Languages
Russian – first language
Kazakh - good
German – fluent
English – fluent
Arabic – basics