Curriculum Vitae
Education
2017 - present
Ph.D Candidate, Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Günther Schlee, Prof. Dr. Marie-Claire Foblets
2014 - 2016
Masters of Social Science in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research, with Specialisation in Social Anthropology at Tampere University.
Thesis: Dramatized and Structural Violence within the Axis of Citizenship: An Ethnographic Exploration into Eastleigh, Nairobi.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Laura Huttunen
2010 - 2014
BSc in Anthropology, with a year in Europe at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Professional Activities
11/2015 - 01/2017
Intern Researcher, Multicultural, Colombia.
09/2015 - 12/2015
Intern Researcher, Department of Social Science, University of Tampere, Finland.
06/2014 - 08/2014
Intern, Kosovar Center for Security Studies, Kosovo.
2013 - 2014
Volunteer Teacher, Kent Refugee Action Network, United Kingdom.
Fieldwork
June - August 2015
Conducted ethnographic fieldwork for Master’s thesis in Eastleigh district of Nairobi, Kenya.
May - August 2018
First part of PhD fieldwork in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement.
November - August 2018
Second half of fieldwork to Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement.
Presentation at Conferences and Workshops
December 2019
Paper: “Huduma Namba is the devil: Creative Resistance against State Transformation in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement”, Departmental Meeting for Law and Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany (5th of December, 2019)
October 2019
Paper: “Huduma Namba is the devil: Creative Resistance against State Transformation in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement”, Panel: “Creative Forms of Resistance”, 7th Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology Conference, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland (3rd to 5th of October, 2019).
March 2019
Paper: “Humanitarian Urbanisation and State Transformations in Kakuma Refugee Camp and Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement”, African Urban Futures, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (22nd to 23rd of March 2019).
October 2018
Paper: “State Transformation through Migration: Initial Findings from Kakuma and Kalobeyei?”, Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment Autumn School, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany (30th to 31st of October, 2018).
September 2018
Paper: “State Transformation through Migration: Initial Findings from Kakuma and Kalobeyei?”, Max Planck Institute Department Retreat for Conflict and Integration, Germany (1st September, 2018).
Teaching
March 2018
Course: “Conflicts, Settlements and Resettlement in Eastern Africa” (Online), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (19th March, 2018).
Languages
English: Native speaker
Arabic: Basic
Swahili: Basic
German: Basic
Finnish: Basic
Spanish: Intermediate