2015
Associate Vice-Rector for the Global South
2011
Prorector for international relations, University of Cologne
2009
Offered Full Professorship (W3), Institute of Anthropology, University Hamburg (declined)
2001
Offered Full Professorship (C4), Institute of Anthropology, University of Halle (declined)
2000
Replacement Professorship (C4), Institute of Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
2000-present
Professor for Anthropology at the University of Cologne and Speaker for the Interdisciplinary Programme Arid Climate and Cultural Evolution in Arid Africa (ACACIA); the programme includes several doctoral studies on resource management in southern Africa’s communal areas
1999
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
1992-1999
Associate Professor (C3), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
1991
PhD (Dr. Phil.), University of Tübingen
1986-1991
PhD Student, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Tübingen. Fieldwork in Kenya on conflict management