Curriculum Vitae
Education and academic positions
since 2024
PhD candidate, Department ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Woking Group ‘Urban Anthropology of the Nearby’
Graduate School IMPRS ‘Global Multiplicity: A Social Anthropology for the Now’
2023
Research stay in Namibia, mainly in Windhoek
Internship at the Gender Research and Advocacy Project of the Legal Assistance Centre
2022–2024
Master’s degree in Gender Studies
Gothenburg University, Sweden
Oppressive Silence – A Qualitative Study on Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence in Namibia and Survivors’ Responses
2022
Exchange semester at the Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts in Tel Aviv, Israel
Primarily courses in Democratic Education
2021
Research stay in Windhoek, Namibia
Internship at RAM – Gender Diversity Movement Trust (local queer NGO)
2019–2022
Student assistant of Prof. Dr. Asta Vonderau at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2018–2022
Bachelor’s degree in Social Anthropology and Educational Science at
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Creating Spaces – Queer Activism in Namibia under the Covid-19 Pandemic
Conferences, workshops and panel discussions
7–8 Mar 2025
Conference Gendering Ethnographic Dissonances: working with gendered identities in the field, presenting a conference paper titled “Gendered Dissonances as a Challenge and Entry Point: Reflections from Fieldwork in Namibia”, session ‘Doctoral Workshop I’, UCLouvain (Belgium)
8 March 2024
Panel discussion on The Future of Gender Studies, moderating the panel discussion as part of the 10th anniversary of the master’s program ‘Gendering Practices’, Gothenburg University (Sweden)
24/25/27 October 2023
Stakeholders Workshop Palladium, presentation on the current legal landscape on LGBT+ issues in Namibia representing the Legal Assistance Centre, Windhoek (Namibia)
10 October 2023
Debate challenge between NUST Debate and Public Speaking Society & UNAM Debate Society, adjudication of the debate on the question whether same-sex couples should be included in the Combating of Domestic Violence Act, representing the Legal Assistance Centre, University of Namibia
1 October 2022
Conference 9th Namibia Research Day, presentation titled “Creating Spaces – Queer Activism in Namibia under the Covid-19 Pandemic”, Session IV ‘Queer Activism’, Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Switzerland)
31 August–2 September 2022
Hybrid conference Second European Students' Conference on African Studies (SESCAS) – African Present, online presentation titled “Queer Activism in Namibia under Covid-19”, Panel I ‘(Im)Possible Affections: Construction of Non-normative Relations and Critique of Heteronormativity within African Studies’, University of Basel (Switzerland)
21–23 October 2020
DGSKA Autumn School “Fieldwork meets Crisis”, co-organizing the autumn school on fieldwork during Covid-19 as a student assistant of Prof. Dr. Asta Vonderau (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), online
Scholarships
2018–2024
Scholar of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Language Skills
German
English
Swedish