Lebenslauf
Ausbildung
2008
PhD Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia
1994
BA(Hons.) Anthropology, Macquarie University 1987 Higher School Certificate, Asquith Boys High School
Beruflicher Werdegang
2020 –
Senior Scientific Editor
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
2017 – 2020
Freelance copy editor and scientific translator (part time)
2018 – 2019
Project officer (50%), Innovative Teaching and Learning Concepts, “Teaching anthropology using digital non-linear storytelling”
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and Centre for Modern Indian Studies. Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Project officer (50%), “Internationalization of the Curricula”,
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology and Centre for Modern Indian Studies. Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
2011 – 2017
Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
2010 – 2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany
2009
Lecturer and Acting Director of the Master of Applied Anthropology program
Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia
2008 –2009
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia
Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen
2008
Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Research, Macquarie University. Awarded for the PhD thesis The Sacred Borderland: A Buddhist Saint, the State, and the Transnational Sacred in Southern Thailand
1993
Chandra Jayawardena Memorial Award for 300-level (3rd year undergraduate) anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia
Editing
2017 – 2020
Freelance scientific copy editor and translator
2015 – 2017
Managing editor
Göttingen Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA) Occasional Papers series. https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/501901.html
2010 –
Editor and managing editor, Journal of Global Buddhism http://www.globalbuddhism.org
Lehre
Courses
Numerous courses at the Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University and the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Göttingen
(Between 2001–2019)
Lectures
Introduction to Anthropology / Doing Ethnography / Spirituality, Cults and the New Millennium / Ethnicity, Diaspora and Nationalism
Seminars
Culture, Myth and Symbolism / Migration and Transnationalism / Applied Anthropology: How does Culture Matter? / Anthropology of Religion / Culture and Rationality / Digital Anthropology / Magic / Buddhism and Modernity / Thailand: State and Society / Mainland Southeast Asia: The Lands of Theravada Buddhism / Pilgrimage: The movement between transcendence and tourism / Digital Anthropology / Digital Ethnographic Methods / Ethnographies of Southeast Asia / The Culture Concept / Introduction to Media Anthropology / The Anthropology of Media and Religion
Summer schools
Co-organizer and convenor, Summer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. “Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia.”
(July 2016)