Curriculum Vitae
Education
2015-2018
DPhil Anthropology, University of Oxford (no corrections)
2018
Visiting Fellowship Centre for African Studies, University of Copenhagen
2018
Visiting Fellowship DIGNITY, Danish Institute against Torture
2013-2015
Diplom Fachjournalismus (Journalism), Freie Journalistenschule Berlin
2011-2014
BA Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Vienna with distinction
2011-2014
BA International Development University of Vienna with distinction
Professional Activities / Teaching
Ongoing
Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Department of Law and Anthropology
2020-ongoing
External Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, University of Leipzig
Courses taught:
WiSe 2020/21 An anthropology of “homelessness”, housing precarity and unhoused living. (Full seminar, self-developed)
SoSe 2020 Love, Sex and Violence, an anthropological critique. (Full seminar, self-developed)
2017-2018
Stipendiary Lecturer, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Courses taught:
2017, 2018 Archaeology and Anthropology BA, Final honour School. (Full course. Michaelmas Term, Hilary Term and Trinity Term).
2017, 2018 Social Analysis and Interpretation, Archaeology. (Full course. Michaelmas Term, Hilary Term).
2017, 2018 Cultural Representations, Beliefs and Practices, Archaeology, Anthropology. (Full course. Michaelmas Term, Hilary Term and Trinity Term).
2018 Archaeology and Anthropology BA Themes in African Anthropology. (Full course. Hilary Term).
2018
Supervisor, BA Archaeology and Anthropology, Thesis, Final honour School. University of Oxford
2017-2018
Mentor, graduate and DPhil students, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
2018
Academic Teacher and thesis supervisor, Waynflete Programme, Magdalen College School, Oxford
2013-2014
Seminar organizer, BA Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University
2014
Mentor, Undergraduates, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vienna University
2013-2014
BA Social and Cultural Anthropology, Co-convener Seminar "Freiheit Vol. 3: Quo Vadis Anthropologie (3.3.4) - über die Ökonomisierung der Wissenschaft" ("about the economization of science")
2014
Mentoring undergraduates in Social and Cultural Anthropology
2012
HURRARC – Freetown Delivering ToT on gender, human rights theory, and practices
2018
INTRAC, Oxford ToT on gender analysis and planning
2015
Consultant. Partners for Prevention: Working to Prevent Gender-based Violence UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women & UNV Regional Joint Programme for Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok.
Grants / Scholarships
2017
Godfrey Lienhardt Small Research Travel Grants for Sub-Saharan Africa. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford University
2017
MCR Travel grant. St. Peter’s College, Oxford University
2016-2018
Promotionsförderung. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2012; 2013
Merit-scholarship from the University of Vienna for best GPA
Awards
2018
Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)/Sutasoma Award for outstanding merit of research about to come to conclusion (GBP 10,000)
2017
Winner of Social Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) Prize competition. Award for academic merit of the DPhil research, progress, and excellence of prior academic record and references. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
2016
Aylmer Award for academic achievement. St. Peter’s College, Oxford University
2014
OeH, Vienna University. Award for queer-feminist relevance of thesis on Secret Societies and Female Genital Cutting in Sierra Leone
Fieldwork / Research Projects
2018–2021
Homelessness, intimacy, violence and the law in Germany
2015–2018
Violence in relationships and its mediation in Sierra Leone
2012–2013
Human Rights film and its reception
2012–2013
Whose Development? Local perceptions of development in Sierra Leone
2012–2013
The Bondo Society in Sierra Leone, female empowerment and female genital cutting
Organisation of Conferences and Workshops
10/2017-03/2018
Researching Africa Day, Conference March 3rd, 2018. African Studies Center, Oxford University, UK
09/2013–05/2014
Ethnosymposium, a Conference for Anthropologists from the Vienna, Austria
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops
Invited Seminars, Guest Lectures
16/06/2020
Leben ohne Privatsphäre: Was Wohnungslose über unsere Gesellschaft aussagen. ARD-alpha. Campus TALKS.
22/11/2017
When the law turns on you: The consequences of the Sexual Offenses Act for young men accused of sexually penetrating their girlfriends in Sierra Leone. St. Peter's College. Oxford University
09/11/2017
'Love hurts': the multifaceted lived experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Freetown, post-Ebola Sierra Leone. International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall, 'Problematizing Gender in an unpredictable world', Oxford University
08/11/2017
'Teeth and tongue jammed together' Gender, relationships, emotions and violence in Freetown. WIP Seminar. Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University
02/03/2016
The trajectories of survivors of Ebola who stand trial for witchcraft. St. Peter's College. University of Oxford
02/03/2016
Graduate Seminar. St. Peter's College University of Oxford
International Conference Presentations
(2020) Let me take a holiday from this damned life before it kills me! Rough sleepers longing for prison. 18.06.-19.06.2020, Carcerality in the Globalised Present: Prison Spaces, Forms and Imaginaries, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (online due to the corona pandemic)
(2019) We are unhoused, not homeless: conditioning legal agency upon living status hinders effective housing policy and fosters social exclusion in Leipzig, Germany. 27.08.-31.08.2019, European Network for Housing Research Conferences, Athens, Greece
(2019) The street is my private space: being without shelter in Leipzig. 20.08.-23.08.2019, 14th European Sociological Association Conference, Manchester, UK
(2018) Of prisoners who don't exist and girls who don’t need saving: Sexualized citizenship, confinement, law and justice in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 14.11–18.11.2018 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, California
(2018) Agreement relationships: elders and the negotiation of social and economic mobility in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 11.09–13.09.2018, ASAUK Conference, University of Birmingham
(2018) When the state polices lovers: sexualized citizenship, forced separation and confinement of minors in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 14.08–17.08.2018, 15th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference, Stockholm University
(2018) When the state enters the bedroom: sexual citizenship, violence and its aftermaths in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 18.05.2018, Africanist Graduate Forum, Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen
(2018) Why the SOA of Sierra Leone criminalises love among young people rather than rape. 24.04.2018, Center for African Studies, University of Copenhagen
(2018) Something heavy/something light: the multifaceted lived experiences, opinions and emotions of women experiencing gender-based violence in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 19.03–23.03.2018, 79th Annual Meeting. Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, Oregon
(2017) Teeth and tongue jammed together—Domestic Violence in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 29.11–03.12.2017, Anthropology Matters!,the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC
(2017) Love hurts: the multifaceted lived experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Freetown, post-Ebola Sierra Leone. 09.11.2017, International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall, 'Problematizing Gender in an unpredictable world', Oxford University
(2017) Teeth and tongue jammed together: Gender, relationships, emotions and violence in Freetown. 08.11.2017, WIP Seminar. Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University
(2017) Perpetrators?! The consequences of the Sexual Offenses Act for young men accused of sexually penetrating their girlfriends in Sierra Leone. 02.11.–03.11.2017, GPRNSecurity Roundtable Meeting, Amsterdam
(2017) Sharing scarcity. Young men's friendships in Freetown. 21.09.– 22.09.2017, Paper at Interdisciplinary Poverty Research Conference, Salzburg
(2017) Relationship's many faces. 31.08.–02.09.2017, 2nd Non-Monogamies and Contemporary Intimacies Conference, Vienna
(2017) Smart loving in constrained environments: Negotiating social and economic mobility in urban Sierra Leone. 15.07.–17.07.2017, LOVA Conference. Ethnographies of Gender and Mobility, VU Amsterdam
(2017) Bambrusing, bossing, sexing, romancing: masculinities and sexual practices among young men in Freetown, Sierra Leone. 13.07.–14.07.2017, Doing Sex, Men and Masculinities Conference, Newcastle
(2017) Winning at a losing game. 29.06.–01.07.2017, ECAS7, the 7th European Conference on African Studies Basel
(2016) Witch trials and the Reweaving of Community. Uncertainty and Secret Societies in Post- Ebola Freetown. 06.05.2016, IUAES, Dubrovnik
(2016) Who is the Other? Critical reflections on conducting fieldwork in a costal slum in Sierra Leone. 11.03.–13.03.2016, In[ter]ventions, University of Vienna
(2016) Panel Moderation. Justice as Development: C.C. Cisternas, I. Harisch. 12.03.2016, In[ter]ventions, University of Vienna
(2016) The trajectories of survivors of Ebola who stand trial for witchcraft. 02.03.2016, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
(2016) Graduate Seminar. 02.03.2016, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford
(2014) Perceptions of development in Sierra Leone. 05.04.2014, Ethnosymposium, University of Vienna
Membership in Professional Associations
2017-ongoing
Member of Global Prisons Research Network (GPRN), American Anthropological Association (AAA), European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA); Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), AT Gender; Royal African Society (ASAUK); Student Fellow of Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) and Association for Social Anthropologists (ASA); The Fieldwork Initiative
2018
Reviewer for: Social Science and Medicine; Culture and Society; Journal of Family Violence; Laws
2017-2018
Student representative of Teaching Committee, School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
2017
Expert witness (VG Augsburg; 22.03.2017) for asylum seeker from Sierra Leone
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
Krio (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Spanish (basic knowledge)
Telugu (basic knowledge)