Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 - 2018
Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University, Budapest (IAS CEU)
2016 - 2017
Fellow at the ZIF Research Group "Kinship and Politcs: Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemological Implications in the Social Sciences", Bielefeld University
2009 – 2016
PhD in Social Anthropology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology and the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale), Germany. Dissertation “State Relations: Local state and social security in central Serbia” with summa cum laude (highest honours). Supervisors: Prof. em Keebet von Benda Beckmann, Prof. Tatjana Thelen, Internal Examiner: Richard Rottenburg
1999 – 2009
Magister (equal to B.A. plus M.A.) at the Free University Berlin, final grade 1.3 (very good), Major subject: Social Anthropology, 1st Minor subject: East and South-East European History, 2nd Minor subject: East-European Studies/ Sociology. MA thesis: “The Dynamics of the Markets in rural Ijumu, Nigeria: An Extended Case Study of Moral Economy and Conflict”, Supervisors: PD Thomas Zitelmann, Prof. Hansjörg Dilger
Professional Activities / Honorary Posts
07-08/2008
Work camp leader for International Youth Community Services (IJGD) in Dessau-Wörlitz, Germany
2006 – 2008
Student assistant at the Library of Social Anthropology (since 2007: Library for Social Sciences), Free University Berlin, Germany
2005 – 2007
Member of the editing team of the conference report for the 6th Days of Polyphonic Anthropology
2003 – 2007
Student assistant at the Institute of Social Anthropology, dept. of Prof. Georg Elwert, work at the Social Anthropological Documentation Center, Free University Berlin, Germany
1998
Civil Service in a Youth Hostel on the Island Burg/Fehmarn, Germany
1996 – 1997
Camp Counselor in Poland (2 weeks) and US (2 months)
Fieldwork and Field Stays
2009 – 2010
Fieldwork in Central Serbia. Return visits 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016
2004 – 2006
Participant observation on the transformation of social security aspects (dwelling) in postsocialist Berlin, Carl-Legien-Siedlung (since 2008 World Cultural Heritage Site)
2002 – 2003
Joint three-month field excursion to Nigeria by the Institute of Social Anthropology, Free University Berlin. Field research on local markets and market dynamics, with a focus on the work of market women in Ijumu, Kogi State. Return visits 2005, 2006
2001
Exchange semester at Lomonossov- University Moscow, research on inter-confessional relations between Russian- Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches
2000
Russian language course (Summer School) at Taras Ševčenko University Kiev
1999
Russian language course (Winter School) Puškin Institute Moscow
Commitments
2004 – 2007
Student representative (Fachschaft) in and for the Institute of Social Anthropology at FU Berlin
2004
Member of the grass roots tenants organization „Grüne Vielfalt“ in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Grants / Scholarships
2009 – present
PhD stipend by the Volkswagen Foundation and the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. Part of the Project: Local State and Social Security in Hungary, Romania and Serbia
2006
German Academic Exchange Program DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) short term stipend for German interns abroad
2004
Grant for an encounter between young Poles and Germans by German-Polish Youth Cooperation (DPJW) in Berlin
2002
DAAD and FU funding for joint research excursion to Nigeria
Languages (5 = excellent)
Russian/English 5
Serbian 4
French 3
Bulgarian, Polish, Yoruba 2