since 2018
Full Professor, Institute of Ethnology, University of Münster

2008 - 2018
Full Professor, Dept. of Cultural & Social Anthropology, University of Cologne

2005 - 2008
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

2005
Habilitation (Social Anthropology), Free University, Berlin

1996 
PhD (Social Anthropology), Yale University, USA

1990
MA (Social Anthropology/Biology), University of Mainz

• Anthropology of religion
• Media anthropology
• Gender studies
• Political anthropology
• Islam in Africa
• Mental health and spiritual well-being
• West Africa, particularly in urban and rural Mali
• East Africa, particularly Uganda