Curriculum Vitae

Education

2010-2013
D. Phil in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Thesis: Zirkulierende Fetische und verschränkte Monetarisierung – Über Muscheln und Biberfelle als maussche ‘totale soziale Objekte‘ am Beispiel des Zusammentreffens von indianischer und kolonialer Ökonomie im nordöstlichen Nordamerika des 17. Jahrhunderts.
 
2005-2010
Magister Artium in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy, African Languages, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 
1996-2005
St. Franziskus Gymnasium Olpe, Germany

Employment

2022-
Senior Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
 
2019- 2022
DFG (German Research Foundation)-Project, “The Quality of Quantity: An Ethnographic and Experimental-Economic Analysis of the Cultural Influence on the Cognitive Perception and Classification of Quantities and Money in Western Kenya“, University of Cologne

2018-2019
Postdoctoral Researcher for the Collaborative Research Centre “Future Rural Africa” (Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne, led by Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig)
 
2017-2018
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gerda Henkel Foundation  
 
2017
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Lab “Transformations of Life“ (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Cologne, led by Prof. Dr. Martin Zillinger)
 
2016-2017
Assistant Professor at the Institute for African Languages and Egyptology, University of Cologne (Substitute for Prof. Thomas Widlok)

2016
Postdoctoral Researcher at the DFG-Research Training Group “Value and Experience” (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main)

2014-2016
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Lab “Transformations of Life“ (a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Cologne, led by Prof. Dr. Martin Zillinger)

2013-2014
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, Käte Hamburger Kolleg (University Duisburg-Essen)

Awards

2019-2022
DFG-Project [“Eigene Stelle“]. “The Quality of Quantity: An Ethnographic and Experimental-Economic Analysis of the Cultural Influence on the Cognitive Perception and Classification of Quantities and Money in Western Kenya”. Total Amount: 305.557 EUR
 
2020
Argelander Scholarship. “Contending with COVID-19 Shock in Selected African Countries: Micro-Level Evidence from Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Namibia” (University of Bonn, Lead Co-Investigator). Total Amount: 25,000 €
 
2017-2018
Scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Project: “Concepts of the Natural Sciences in the Work of Émile Durkheims and Marcel Mauss: From the Society as a Biological Organism to the Social as a Milieu of Physical and Chemical Forces.” Total Amount: 14.000 EUR
 
2017
Funding of a Conference (Fritz Thyssen Foundation). Title: “Practice, Effervescence and Rhythm: Technologies of Categorization and the Legacy of the Durkheim School”. Total Amount: 10.000 EUR

Teaching

Over ten classes on topics covering the ethnography of Eastern Africa, kinship, economic anthropology, the history of French and British anthropology, the anthropology of food.

Service

Member of the International Board of Editorial Consultants for Durkheimian Studies
 
Founding member of the working group “Economic Anthropology” (German Anthropological Association)
 
Peer review (Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Anthropological Theory, Anthropology and Humanism, Cultural Anthropology, Durkheimian Studies, Economy & Society, Food, Culture and Society, Geographica Helvetica, Journal of Cultural Economy, Paideuma, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Social Analysis)

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