Since 2018
Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

2015/16
Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen  

2013 - 2018
Junior-Professor, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate-school, University of Cologne

2012 - 2013
Senior Lecturer, Institute for Media Studies, University of Siegen

2007 - 2012
Postdoctoral Researcher SFB „Media Upheavals“ and DFG-funded Research Project "Trance Mediums and New Media", University of Siegen

2009
Ph.D. (Dr. phil. with distinction), Anthropology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

2003 - 2007
Ph.D. candidate, interdisciplinary Graduate Research Training Group "The Figure of the Third", University of Constance

2003
Magister Artium Anthropology, Philosophy, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen

• Anthropology of Religion
• Media Anthropology
• Anthropology of Migration and Transnationalism
• Religious Movements
• North Africa, Middle East
• Trans-Saharan and Trans-Mediterranean Migration

2010 - present
Member of the editorial board Siegen/West, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaft (ZfK)

2010 - present
Founding member and elected spokesperson of the Mediterranean Study Section, German Anthropological Association

2008 - present
Elected board-member of the Media Anthropology Study Section, German Anthropological Association

Description: 

The project focuses on media practices in Marocco and analyzes the emergence of a civil society and the constitution of new public spheres during ongoing processes of social transformation in North Africa. The rapid spread of digital media in the Arab world led to new demands for political participation and has challenged hegemonic power structures since. In this context, socio-informatic research and design zoom in on media infrastructures while media-ethnological research investigates how new media practices (re-)establish issues of concern shaping and re-shaping different public realms. The integrated research perspective analyzes the relationship between civil society, co-operatively constituted publics and their media infrastructures in situ.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2016 - 2020

Description:
Migration is a key strategy of future-making during land-use change. Ethnographic research is needed to explore how actors engage with changing ecologies of practice and relate to rapidly shifting landscapes of intensification, conservation and decay. This will contribute to a better understanding of both, how actors refine their capacities to aspire and redefine scale on site and in situ.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2018 - 2021