Curriculum Vitae
Education
2020 PhD, Department of Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Advisor: Professor Rebecca Lester
2016 MA, Department of Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Advisor: Professor Rebecca Lester
2014 Masters in Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences
Columbia University, USA
Advisor: Professor Kim Hopper
2011 BA (magna cum laude), Department of Anthropology
Princeton University, USA
Advisor: Elizabeth Davis
Previous Positions
2022 - 2025 DFG Postdoctoral researcher for the project, Discerning Need: Peer Advisors and the
Implementation of the Federal Participation Law in Berlin, Germany. Lead
researcher, responsible for all data collection and analysis.
Department of Science, Technology, and Society
Technische Universität München, Germany
2021 - 2022 Volkswagen Postdoctoral Researcher for the project, Responsible Research in
Exceptional Times, focusing on methods, ethics, and knowledge production in crisis
conditions such as Covid-19 and others.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum
Universität Tübingen, Germany
2021 - 2022 Affiliated researcher
Robert K. Merton-Zentrum für Wissenschaftsforschung
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2020 - 2022 Scientific researcher, for the ImpPeer-Psy5 Project, a preliminary study of the
incorporation of peer support workers regionally across Germany using demographic
survey and structured-interview data.
Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg, Germany
2020 - 2021 Max Kade Berlin Program Postdoctoral Fellow
Berlin Program for European and Advanced Studies
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dr. Lauren Cubellis September 2025
2019 - 2022 Associate Editor
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry
2018 - 2019 Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis, USA
2018 - 2019 Researcher and Expert Consultant, for the AAROW Project on the Implementation of
Dialogic Crisis Care in Georgia
Grady Medical Center
Emory University, USA
2012 - 2014 Predoctoral Researcher
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Orangeburg, New York, USA
Fellowships and Grants
2025—2031 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Emmy Noether Programme Research
Group Leader. Situated Care: Subjectivity, Knowledge, and Labor
2022—2025 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Recognizing Needs - Peer Advisors and
the Implementation of the Federal Participation Act for People with Psychiatric
Disabilities in Berlin (Bedürfnisse erkennen - Peer Berater_innen und die Umsetzung
des Bundesteilhabegesetzes für Menschen mit psychiatrischen Behinderungen in
Berlin), with Prof. Dr. Joerg Niewoehner (PI)
2021—2022 Volkswagen Stiftung: Corona Crisis and Beyond – Perspectives for Science,
Scholarship and Society
2020—2021 Una Europa seed funding for the project, “Orders of feeling and economies of
solidarity: understanding the relationship between work, health systems, and wellbeing
in five European countries during Covid-19."
2020—2021 Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellowship Berlin Program for Advanced German and
European Studies
2018—2019 Wenner Gren Workshop Grant, “Care at the Nexus of Power and Practice:
Anthropological Engagement with Caring Otherwise.”
2018—2019 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2017—2018 DAAD Long-Term Research Grant for Doctoral Dissertation Research
2017—2018 DAAD Intensive Language Course Grant, Goethe Institute – Berlin
2015—2016 Society for Psychological Anthropology/Lemelson Pre-Dissertation Student
Fellowship Program
2014—2020 Washington University in St. Louis Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship for
Women in Graduate Study
2012—2013 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable
Mention
2010—2011 Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion Undergraduate Research
Fellow